Sauron by user6931190

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Midrange strategy commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord that weaponizes the Amass Orcs and Ring-tempt mechanics from The Lord of the Rings. The game plan focuses on deploying on-curve mana rocks to cast Sauron on Turn 5. Once on the battlefield, Sauron punishes opponents whenever they cast spells by growing an Orc Army, while offering built-in Ward protection. In combat, connecting with an Army triggers the Ring temptation, letting you discard a depleted hand to draw four fresh cards each turn cycle. The deck converts this massive card velocity and growing token power into a lethal combat clock, supported by Lord of the Nazgûl, Nazgûl Wraith buffs, Orcish Siegemaster trample, and Mirkwood Bats drain triggers. While vulnerable to bounce spells and sweepers that reset the single tall Army token, the deck maintains resilience through recursion spells and strong secondary token engines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Black Sun's Zenith
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Commence the Endgame
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drown in the Loch
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Easterling Vanguard
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 4 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Dragon Engine
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surrounded by Orcs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge