New Untitled Deck by user3224749

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a thematic Grixis midrange strategy centered on Sauron, the Dark Lord. It leverages opposing spell casts to passively amass a towering Orc Army token. Once Sauron lands on Turn 6, any combat connection by an Army triggers the Ring tempts you mechanic, allowing you to discard depleted hands and draw four fresh cards each turn. The deck converts this immense card velocity into board dominance through supporting threats like Lord of the Nazgûl and Saruman, the White Hand, while punishing opponent draws with Orcish Bowmasters and Notion Thief. Sauron's demanding ward cost deters targeted spot removal, forcing opponents to look for global sweepers. Evasion lands like The Black Gate and combat enablers like Shadowspear ensure damage pushes through, systematically eliminating opponents across consecutive combat steps.

Decklist (105 cards)

  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Deceive the Messenger
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Isildur's Fateful Strike
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin