LOTR by hasch

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Sauron, the Dark Lord is a value-amass engine: every Army hit forces a Ring temptation, and Sauron converts that into a new four-card hand. The deck builds an oversized Orc Army through Saruman, the White Hand, Summons of Saruman, March from the Black Gate, and Fall of Cair Andros, then finishes with Assault on Osgiliath or a double-combat Scourge turn. The hidden Commander is Saruman, the White Hand, who accelerates the same amass plan at four mana and gives Orcs/Goblins ward. Secondary paths use Living Death and Dread Return to reanimate the large board, while Lord of the Nazgul turns the many instants/sorceries into Wraiths. The deck is a midrange combat engine that trades early tempo for overwhelming late-game card advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Along the Crooked Way
• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assault on Osgiliath
• 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bolg of the North
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Corsairs of Umbar
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Desolate Lighthouse
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dread Return
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Fall of Cair Andros
• 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Flame of Anor
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Gathering of Darkness
• 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
• 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 1 Isildur's Fateful Strike
• 6 Island
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 March from the Black Gate
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 6 Mountain
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
• 1 Orcish Medicine
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Press the Enemy
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Rhovanion Rampager
• 1 Ringwraiths
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Saruman the White
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Scourge of the Throne
• 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
• 1 Shiny Impetus
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Siege-Gang Commander
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spiteful Banditry
• 1 Storm of Saruman
• 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Summons of Saruman
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Supper for Spiders
• 1 Surrounded by Orcs
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Cruelty of Gix
• 1 There and Back Again
• 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
• 1 Treason of Isengard
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Wake the Dragon
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Worn Powerstone