In Darkness Bund Them by user1194112

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange strategy centered on Sauron, the Dark Lord. It leverages amass mechanics to build a towering Orc Army while exploiting Sauron's triggered ability to repeatedly discard and draw four cards whenever an Army deals combat damage. Early turns focus on mana development with rocks like Arcane Signet and Chromatic Lantern before deploying Sauron on Turn 5. Sauron's ward ability forces opponents to sacrifice legendary permanents to target him, creating natural resilience. Once the engine is active, the deck churns through cards to find evasion enablers like The Black Gate and Orcish Siegemaster, as well as game-ending combat spells like Assault on Osgiliath. While the deck generates overwhelming card advantage and massive combat pressure, its clock relies on combat damage across three players, requiring multiple turn cycles to close without combo shortcuts.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Battle-Scarred Goblin
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Bitter Downfall
  • 1 Bolg of the North
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Cast into the Fire
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Easterling Vanguard
  • 1 Elvenking's Harper
  • 1 Evil Reawakened
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Grond, the Gatebreaker
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hall of Echoes
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 Olog-hai Crusher
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Smaug's Fury
  • 1 Smite the Deathless
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stern Scolding
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unsummon
  • 1 Voracious Fell Beast
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Wizards of Thay
  • 1 Worthy Cost