Hosts of Mordor by MLazar19

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a midrange LotR build centered on growing one Army and repeatedly tempting the Ring. Sauron, the Dark Lord is the fuel: each Ring temptation can trade your hand for four fresh cards, while opponent spells generate bonus Orc counters. The hidden commander is Saruman, the White Hand, who turns every noncreature spell into an Amass trigger, and Lord of the Nazgul provides an alternate Wraith-token finish. The deck wins by making the Army lethal, either through combat with evasion or a single Chandra's Ignition, and uses reanimation and Living Death to rebuild after wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 4 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Winged Boots
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge