Sauron, Host of Mordor by CMDRGreil

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Sauron, the Dark Lord leads a Grixis amass deck that turns every spell and trigger into a growing Army. The commander provides card advantage by discarding and drawing four whenever the Ring tempts you, while the deck's amass pieces build a single huge token. Secondary paths include Goblin token generation, treasure ramp, and direct damage from The Great Goblin and Mirkwood Bats. The deck wins through commander damage from Sauron or a massive Army, often made unblockable with Rogue's Passage or The Black Gate. Interaction is strong with free spells and flexible removal, but the deck has no infinite combos and relies on incremental board growth.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Bolg's Company
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gift of Doom
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
  • 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 Offer Immortality
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surrounded by Orcs
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Tidings of War
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Warg Rider