Sauron by MrAlarik

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis midrange and reanimator strategy piloted by Sauron, the Dark Lord. It leverages an efficient mana curve, dense 2-CMC acceleration, and graveyard tutors like Entomb and Buried Alive to execute dual game plans. The primary route establishes Sauron, the Dark Lord on Turn 4, exploiting opposing casts to amass an Orc Army that loots four fresh cards every combat through Ring temptation triggers. Simultaneously, the deck runs a potent reanimation package that can deploy format-warping threats such as Archon of Cruelty, Sheoldred, Whispering One, and Archfiend of Ifnir ahead of curve. Opponents face severe attrition from draw punishers and edicts, while Sauron's oppressive ward ability shields him from conventional removal. The deck closes games around Turn 7 through evasive combat damage powered by Wonder, growing Nazgûl, or a mass reanimation spell.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 3 Island
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 7 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Xander's Lounge