Sauron by user4874907

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Grixis Wraith tribal and reanimator midrange build commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The strategy uses 9 copies of Nazgûl alongside Sauron's amass and Ring-tempting abilities to construct an overwhelming combat force. Early turns focus on deploying 2-mana mana rocks, setting up passive engines like Call of the Ring or Black Market Connections, and fixing all three colors. Once Sauron lands on Turn 4 or 5, every opponent's spellcast amasses an Orc Army. When the Army deals combat damage, the Ring tempts you, triggering +1/+1 counters on all Wraiths and allowing you to discard your hand to draw four fresh cards. The deck leverages high-impact control elements such as Fierce Guardianship, Cyclonic Rift, and Orcish Bowmasters to suppress opposing strategies while using cheap reanimation spells like Reanimate and Animate Dead to bypass removal. It closes games by swinging with massive, unblockable Wraiths and Armies across multiple combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dino DNA
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kefka, Court Mage // Kefka, Ruler of Ruin
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reflections of Littjara
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Turbulent Wetlands
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will