Sauron, the Dark Lord - Discard, Burn by user4183321

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 86

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power competitive Grixis combo shell centered on fast mana acceleration, potent card engines, and compact discard-damage combos. While Sauron, the Dark Lord provides a massive 7/6 body with Ward protection, passive token generation, and repeatable hand cycling, the deck's primary victory route is a lethal two-card combo pairing discard pingers like Glint-Horn Buccaneer or Brallin, Skyshark Rider with damage-triggered draw effects like Curiosity, Ophidian Eye, or Tandem Lookout. Powered by explosive mana acceleration (Chrome Mox, Mana Vault, Dark Ritual) and universal tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor), the deck reliably threatens a same-turn table elimination by Turn 3. Massive card draw engines such as Ad Nauseam, Necropotence, and Necrodominance provide overwhelming resource velocity and backup avenues to assemble the win. A robust suite of free and efficient countermagic ensures the combo is defended against opposing disruption while disrupting faster threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brallin, Skyshark Rider
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Leyline of Transformation
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magmakin Artillerist
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mist-Cloaked Herald
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necrodominance
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ophidian Eye
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Phyrexian Metamorph
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Siren Stormtamer
  • 1 Slither Blade
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tandem Lookout
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tolarian Winds
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Triton Shorestalker
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Wild Guess
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Xander's Lounge