Sauron by alesekk

Format: Commander

Creator: alesekk

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange deck commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord, leveraging the Amass Orcs mechanic alongside Ring-temptation triggers and a dedicated graveyard reanimation package. Early turns focus on establishing mana fixing and velocity through 2-mana mana rocks and self-discard spells. Once Sauron resolves, his ward ability taxes opposing spot removal heavily while his passive trigger punishes opponents for casting spells by continuously growing an Orc Army. Combat connections trigger Ring temptation, allowing the pilot to discard obsolete cards and draw four new ones, rapidly digging into devastating reanimation targets such as Sepulchral Primordial, The Balrog, Durin's Bane, and Living Death. While the deck possesses explosive card flow and robust mid-game board presence, it lacks infinite combos and must close games via sequential combat damage, giving the table multiple turns to find sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 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
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Oscorp Industries
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge
  • 1 Wonder