Who Knew Wraiths Where So Controlling by Rowdy_Runaround

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Dimir deck combines spellslinging control with Wraith tribal synergy under Lord of the Nazgûl. The strategy accelerates into its commander by turn 4 or 5, then converts instant and sorcery spells into 3/3 Wraith tokens with menace. Nine copies of Nazgûl provide dense redundancy, triggering the Ring's temptation to pump the entire Wraith army with +1/+1 counters. Powerful asymmetric sweepers such as Raise the Palisade and Toxic Deluge clear opposing blockers, allowing the menace-laden Wraiths to overwhelm opponents across subsequent combat turns. The deck supplements this pressure with card engines like Rhystic Study and Chimil, the Inner Sun, alongside disruption from Notion Thief and versatile counterspells. While reliant on maintaining creature permanents across turn rotations, the deck boasts resilient backup beatdown and mass reanimation via Living Death.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 As Foretold
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Chronicle of Victory
• 1 Colossal Whale
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Devastation Tide
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Ghastlord of Fugue
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Isildur's Fateful Strike
• 5 Island
• 1 Languish
• 1 Learn from the Past
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 March from the Black Gate
• 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
• 1 Morgul-Knife Wound
• 1 Myriad Landscape
• 1 Mystic Confluence
• 1 Mystical Tutor
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
• 1 Orcish Medicine
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pelargir Survivor
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Press the Enemy
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Ringwraiths
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
• 1 Saruman's Trickery
• 1 Sauron's Ransom
• 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
• 1 Shadow of the Enemy
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Sharkey, Tyrant of the Shire
• 1 Singularity Rupture
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sorcerous Squall
• 1 Storm of Saruman
• 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Surrounded by Orcs
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Sword of the Animist
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Mouth of Sauron
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 The Watcher in the Water
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Time Warp
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Treason of Isengard
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Urborg
• 1 Wasteland
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
• 1 Worn Powerstone