hosts of mordor by user4087922

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Reanimator and Midrange Attrition strategy commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary game plan revolves around rapidly stocking the graveyard with game-ending threats like Archon of Cruelty, Valgavoth, Terror Eater, and Sheoldred, Whispering One via discard spells and Entomb, then cheating them onto the battlefield ahead of curve using low-cost reanimation spells. Sauron serves as an immense card-advantage and board-presence engine, generating a growing Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells and wheeling the hand for four fresh cards whenever the Army connects. The deck controls the board through asymmetric edicts, creature board wipes like Toxic Deluge, and repeatable discard synergies like Archfiend of Ifnir. It closes games on Turn 7 by executing multi-creature reanimation swings with Living Death or leveraging flying evasion provided by Wonder.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Avacyn, Angel of Horror
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Behold the Sinister Six!
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Boneyard Parley
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Explosion
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Curse-Marred Demon
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Depths
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emrakul, the Exigent Doom
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Ledger Shredder
  • 1 Lich's Relic
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nezahal, Primal Tide
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Obliterate
  • 1 Ominous Asylum
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Delver
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Echoverse Fulcrum
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Evil to Stay Dead
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Turbulent Crater
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Zombify