Lord of the Nazgûl: Wraiths by FunkyWatermelon

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

This deck uses Lord of the Nazgûl as a spell-based tribal engine. Each instant or sorcery creates a 3/3 Wraith, while the nine copies of Nazgûl add Ring triggers and counters. The main goal is to reach nine Wraiths, cast another spell to make the army 9/9, and win through repeated menace attacks. Cheap cantrips such as Opt, Ponder, and Birthday Escape increase spell count, while Archmage Emeritus and Case of the Ransacked Lab improve card flow. Copy effects such as Quasiduplicate, Rite of Replication, and Sakashima of a Thousand Faces can greatly increase the board but are expensive and require an established creature. The deck has respectable removal and protection, but its commander costs five mana, the army has no built-in haste, and sweepers remain effective. Its ordinary plan is a turn-6 engine, turn-8 threat, and turn-11 combat finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Countersquall
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Midgar, City of Mako // Reactor Raid
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Multiversal Recruitment
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Quasiduplicate
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Reality Shift
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rimefire Torque
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakashima of a Thousand Faces
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Slip Through Space
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Three Steps Ahead
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wizard's Staff