New Untitled Deck by Gn9

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Dimir spellslinger control deck led by Lord of the Nazgûl. The strategy focuses on accelerating mana on early turns, deploying the commander on turn 4, and utilizing a dense suite of cheap cantrips, draw spells, and countermagic to churn out an army of 3/3 black Wraith tokens with menace. As the Wraith army grows and the Ring tempts you, each copy of Nazgûl places +1/+1 counters across the entire squad. The deck maintains control of the game using premier reactive interaction like Mana Drain, Fierce Guardianship, and Cyclonic Rift, which double as offensive token-generating triggers. Once 9 Wraiths are assembled or an asymmetric board bounce like Raise the Palisade resolves, the deck swings with massive evasive power to eliminate all three opponents across turns 7 and 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amazing Acrobatics
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Archway of Innovation
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Distant Melody
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fandaniel, Telophoroi Ascian
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Hermes, Overseer of Elpis
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sedgemoor Witch
  • 1 Shark Typhoon
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Watery Grave