NECRoMANCY by thestems55

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This Sauron, the Dark Lord deck is a resilient Grixis Reanimator deck that blends explosive cost-cheating with sustained asymmetric attrition. The deck focuses on loading the graveyard with massive game-ending creatures such as Archon of Cruelty, Valgavoth, Terror Eater, and Razaketh, the Foulblooded during the early turns using looters and targeted entomb effects. On turn 4, low-cost reanimation spells bring these leviathans directly into play, creating immediate must-answer threats that dismantle opposing boards and resources. Sauron serves as an unyielding mid-game engine, generating an Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells and repeatedly refilling the hand with four fresh cards whenever an Army deals combat damage. Supported by efficient ability counters, redirection spells, and mass reanimation finishers like Living Death, the deck rapidly overwhelms the table through relentless combat pressure, continuous sacrifice edicts, and graveyard dominance.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Angel of Suffering
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Barrowgoyf
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brass's Tunnel-Grinder // Tecutlan, the Searing Rift
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Burning-Rune Demon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Defabricate
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gogo, Mysterious Mime
  • 1 Intuition
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Jace, Vryn's Prodigy // Jace, Telepath Unbound
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Liliana the Repentant
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord Xander, the Collector
  • 1 Louisoix's Sacrifice
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen
  • 1 Obsessive Stitcher
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rona, Herald of Invasion // Rona, Tolarian Obliterator
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vohar, Vodalian Desecrator
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Will of the Abzan
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Xander's Lounge