The Dark Lord by user6794856

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

Sauron, the Dark Lord leads a Grixis midrange deck that blends Lord of the Rings flavor with combat pressure, token generation, and graveyard reanimation. The primary strategy focuses on deploying mana rocks in the opening turns to resolve Sauron on turn 5. Once on the battlefield, Sauron punishes opposing spells by amassing an Orc Army and converts combat connections into explosive card draw through the Ring tempts you mechanic. This recurring four-card wheel refills the hand and discards massive threats into the graveyard for reanimation spells like Reanimate and Animate Dead. Built-in ward protection makes Sauron difficult to remove with single-target spells, allowing the deck to assemble overwhelming combat boards. Secondary engines like Lord of the Nazgûl provide independent threat creation. While the list lacks fast infinite combos and relies on combat damage over multiple turn cycles, its resilient value loop and potent sweepers allow it to control the midgame and close out tables reliably.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 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 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Widespread Brutality
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Worn Powerstone