Sauron 28.09.2026 by user6238709

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 40

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Amass and Ring-bearer midrange strategy commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. It accelerates through two-mana artifacts on early turns to land Sauron by Turn 5. Sauron punishes opponents whenever they cast spells by growing a large Orc Army token. Once an Army deals combat damage, the Ring tempts you, allowing you to discard your hand and draw four fresh cards. This card velocity fuels steady pressure, reanimation, and token buffs. The deck protects its engine using Sauron's restrictive Ward cost and dedicated defensive spells like Mithril Coat and Lazotep Plating. It closes games around Turn 8 through overwhelming combat steps, trample enablers, and asymmetric board wipes like Archfiend of Ifnir and Cyclonic Rift.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cascade Bluffs
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Creeping Tar Pit
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 3 Mountain
  • 4 Nazgûl
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Spymaster's Vault
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temporal Manipulation
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Widespread Brutality
  • 1 Witch-king, Sky Scourge