A Shadow of Fear

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Lord of the Nazgul commands a Dimir spellslinger and tribal hybrid deck designed to overwhelm opponents with an army of lethal Wraiths. The strategy revolves around casting cheap instant and sorcery spells to trigger the commander, creating 3/3 black Wraith tokens with menace. As the Wraith army expands, the deck leverages nine copies of Nazgul and frequent Ring-tempting triggers to place +1/+1 counters on the entire team. The primary win condition culminates in reaching nine Wraiths to trigger Lord of the Nazgul's ability, transforming all Wraiths into 9/9 combat juggernauts, or resolving a kicked Rite of Replication for an insurmountable combat assault.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Founding the Third Path
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glamdring
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Harmonized Trio // Brainstorm
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 14 Island
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Patchwork Banner
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peek
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Silent Hallcreeper
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Three Tree City
  • 1 Trail of Evidence
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin