New Untitled Deck by user7729932

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis Reanimator strategy that pairs explosive graveyard recursion with the card-filtering and token-generating prowess of Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary game plan accelerates into early graveyard tutors like Buried Alive and Entomb, binning Anger alongside game-warping threats such as Archon of Cruelty, Ancient Silver Dragon, and Ancient Copper Dragon. By recurring these monsters on Turn 4 with Reanimate, Animate Dead, or Sneak Attack, the deck immediately pressures opponents with flying combat damage and crushing enter-the-battlefield triggers. Sauron, the Dark Lord acts as a resilient midrange anchor, building an Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells and repeatedly discarding depleted hands to draw four fresh cards upon Ring tempt triggers. A lean, efficient interaction package shields key recursion turns with free and single-mana counterspells, while asymmetric attrition pieces like Dauthi Voidwalker and Orcish Bowmasters stifle opposing development until a mass reanimation spell or Chandra's Ignition finishes the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Balefire Dragon
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Kokusho, the Evening Star
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 4 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rite of Consumption
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sudden Spoiling
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Xander's Lounge