sauron the dark lord but better by TOPPA

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed Grixis combo build that leverages efficient mana rocks, elite tutors, and low-cost interaction to secure rapid victories. Its primary plan combines Thassa's Oracle with Demonic Consultation to empty the library and win on the spot as early as Turn 3. When contested, the deck pivots seamlessly into an Underworld Breach storm loop with Brain Freeze and Lion's Eye Diamond, or uses Ad Nauseam and Necropotence to draw massive card volume. Free interaction spells like Force of Will, Fierce Guardianship, and Deflecting Swat protect combo turns while disrupting opposing strategies. Although the commander Sauron, the Dark Lord provides mid-game card cycling and board presence, the list focuses primarily on compact spell-based combos, backed by oppressive disruption pieces like Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Intuition
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor