Sorry did you see some Hobbits? by Drunki

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Spellslinger Kindred strategy built around Lord of the Nazgûl. The game plan focuses on establishing early mana development and card selection using cheap cantrips such as Brainstorm, Ponder, and Consider. On Turn 5, the deck deploys its commander and immediately begins converting low-cost instants and sorceries into 3/3 black Wraith tokens with menace. Functional redundancy is exceptionally high due to the inclusion of nine copies of Nazgûl, which continuously grow the entire Wraith army whenever the Ring tempts you. The deck leverages efficient interaction, featuring free defensive staples like Fierce Guardianship and Deadly Rollick, alongside card-advantage engines such as The One Ring and Archmage Emeritus. Win conditions revolve around overwhelming opponents through wide, evasive combat damage—amplified by Raise the Palisade, Wonder, and the commander's ability to turn all Wraiths into 9/9 beaters—closing out the game reliably by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Archmage of Runes
• 1 Birthday Escape
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Glamdring
• 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
• 1 Gloomlake Verge
• 1 Glorious Gale
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Inherited Envelope
• 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 11 Island
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
• 1 Negate
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
• 1 Opt
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Plunder the Trollshaws
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Professor Onyx
• 1 Propaganda
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Ringwraiths
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
• 1 Samut, Tyrant of Naktamun
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothing of Sméagol
• 1 Storm of Saruman
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 10 Swamp
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Three Tree City
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
• 1 Wonder