Sauron the Dark Lord by NDyse10

Format: Commander

Creator: NDyse10

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 50

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis Reanimator shell commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. It marries the speed of graveyard-based creature cheating with the grinding inevitability of Lord of the Rings flavor engines, specifically the nine Nazgûl and the Ring Tempts You mechanic. Early turns focus on mana acceleration via rocks and rituals alongside targeted self-mill using Entomb, Buried Alive, and looting effects. The primary line cheats game-warping threats like Archon of Cruelty, Toxrill, the Corrosive, or Razaketh, the Foulblooded into play as early as turn 3 to 4. Simultaneously, Sauron provides an imposing board presence with a punishing Ward cost, amassing Orc armies whenever opponents cast spells and filtering cards into the graveyard whenever an Army connects. Opponents face relentless asymmetric attrition, creature suppression, and large evasive beaters that close the game through overwhelming combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Disallow
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 8 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Xander's Lounge