Sauron Control (copy) by JangoM

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 81

Deck overview

This deck is an optimized Grixis Control, Reanimator, and Storm Combo strategy commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. It operates on a dual-track plan designed to overwhelm multiplayer tables through sudden combo finishes or asymmetric resource locks. In the early game, fast mana and efficient card draw engines like Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, and The One Ring establish rapid card velocity. The primary win condition utilizes Underworld Breach, Brain Freeze, and Lotus Petal to generate infinite storm and mill out all opponents on Turn 4. Simultaneously, the deck maintains a potent reanimation package featuring Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Toxrill, the Corrosive, and Valgavoth, Terror Eater, which can enter play as early as Turn 2 to strip opposing hands or clear boards. Backed by format-ceiling free countermagic, Opposition Agent, and Notion Thief wheel synergies, the deck dictates game tempo while protecting its own decisive execution.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Bruvac the Grandiloquent
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Islet
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord Xander, the Collector
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Memory Jar
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sheoldred's Edict
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valgavoth, Terror Eater
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Xander's Lounge