Sauron The Dark Lord by Pasbot

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Midrange and Spellslinger shell commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord, emphasizing Orc amass scaling, Wraith tribal synergy, and Ring-temptation card velocity. The strategy establishes early mana acceleration before deploying Sauron on Turn 5. Once on the board, Sauron generates immense passive pressure by creating and growing an Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells, while built-in Ward shields him from targeted removal. Combat connections trigger Ring temptation, cycling low-value cards into full four-card hands and triggering counters on nine copies of Nazgûl. Supported by Lord of the Nazgûl, The One Ring, and a dense interaction suite of over eighteen counterspells and redirection effects, the deck controls the stack while building overwhelming board presence. It finishes the table around Turn 8 through evasive combat damage bolstered by Wonder and Isengard Unleashed.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Blade of Selves
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Bone Miser
• 1 Brush Off
• 1 Burnished Hart
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Cancel
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Containment Construct
• 1 Contaminated Aquifer
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cryptcaller Chariot
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Display of Power
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fell Beast of Mordor
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Glorious Gale
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Isengard Unleashed
• 5 Island
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Midnight Clock
• 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1 Mines of Moria
• 1 Monument to Endurance
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 Negate
• 1 Neutralize
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Phantom Interference
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Redirect Lightning
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Rewind
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Rivendell
• 1 Sapphire Medallion
• 1 Saruman's Trickery
• 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
• 1 Scourge of the Throne
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothing of Sméagol
• 1 Spectral Denial
• 1 Spiteful Banditry
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 The Grey Havens
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Tibalt's Trickery
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge
• 1 Wonder