STOMPY by Hanzstrudel

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Grixis reanimator deck helmed by Sauron, Lord of the Rings, built to grind out overwhelming battlefield advantage through mass reanimation, powerful cheating-into-play effects, and the classic Worldgorger Dragon combo as its fastest path to victory. The primary plan is to fill the graveyard with high-impact dragons and demons via milling and looting, then reanimate them with effects like Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Living Death. Sauron himself acts as a one-shot reanimation spell attached to the command zone, while Saruman, the White Hand serves as a hidden second commander that builds an Orc Army and provides board-wide ward. The deck closes games through Walking Ballista + Mikaeus, the Unhallowed infinite damage, Worldgorger Dragon + Animate Dead infinite mana into Walking Ballista, or overwhelming combat pressure from Archon of Cruelty, the dragons, and an Army.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consecrated Sphinx
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mikaeus, the Unhallowed
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 8 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Worldgorger Dragon