army trkl by CrimsonsClaws

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange build centered on Sauron, the Dark Lord, leveraging amass mechanics, the Ring tempts you mechanic, and a package of nine Nazgûl. The strategy accelerates into Sauron by Turn 4 or 5 using an efficient suite of mana rocks. Once Sauron is active, opposing spell casts rapidly grow an Orc Army token. When the Army deals combat damage, the Ring tempts the player, allowing Sauron to discard the current hand and draw four fresh cards. This intense card flow fuels a wide, compounding board of deathtouch Wraiths and massive Armies, supported by evasion enablers like Herald of Secret Streams and Wonder, as well as direct damage from All Will Be One. While vulnerable to mass exile and lacking countermagic, the deck exerts heavy combat pressure and recovers effectively through reanimation and built-in commander protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 All Will Be One
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Bender's Waterskin
• 1 Birthday Escape
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Breaking of the Fellowship
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Cascade Bluffs
• 1 Changeling Outcast
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1 Dreadhorde Twins
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Fall of Cair Andros
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 Ingris Stingerquill
• 1 Inherited Envelope
• 5 Island
• 1 Izzet Signet
• 1 Lazotep Plating
• 1 Loxodon Warhammer
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 March from the Black Gate
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1 Mindless Conscription
• 1 Mistwalker
• 1 Monument to Endurance
• 1 Mothdust Changeling
• 6 Mountain
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orcish Medicine
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothing of Sméagol
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sunken Ruins
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 The Reaver Cleaver
• 1 Turbulent Springs
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Widespread Brutality
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Xander's Lounge