Sauron - LoTR Themed Midrange by user5913900

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis midrange Amass/Ring-temptation deck helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The plan is to grow a single Orc Army through dense amass triggers, swarm the board with the nine Nazgul and other Wraiths, and convert Ring temptations into card advantage via the commander's discard-draw clause. Sauron, the Dark Lord is the primary engine: every opposing spell amasses, Army combat damage tempts the Ring, and each temptation can refill the hand for four. Secondary pressure comes from Lord of the Nazgul token swarms, big reanimation payoffs (Rise of the Dark Realms, Living Death, Sauron, Lord of the Rings), and incidental drain/burn from One Ring to Rule Them All and Fiery Inscription. There are no infinite combo lines; the deck wins through combat inevitability and attrition in the mid-to-late game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
• 1 Birthday Escape
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Glorious Gale
• 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 4 Island
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mount Doom
• 4 Mountain
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orcish Medicine
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Saruman's Trickery
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron's Ransom
• 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothing of Sméagol
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Storm of Saruman
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summons of Saruman
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Mouth of Sauron
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 There and Back Again
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Treason of Isengard
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Withering Torment