Sauron by user7759861

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Grixis amass deck helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary plan is to build a large Orc Army token using amass effects, use combat damage from that Army to trigger the Ring tempts, and convert Sauron's discard-and-draw-four into massive card advantage. Secondary lines include Wraith token generation via Lord of the Nazgul and In the Darkness Bind Them, reanimation of big threats (Sheoldred, The Balrog, Sauron, Lord of the Rings), and commander damage from Sauron himself. The deck is built to abuse Sauron's draw ability rather than to rely on a hidden commander; the Army is the main win condition, eventually finishing with Chandra's Ignition or Mutinous Massacre.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 6 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 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 Necromancer
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Surrounded by Orcs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar