Lord of the Wheels by JTauzzi

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 42

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Grixis midrange engine commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The strategy focuses on ramping into Sauron by turn 4 or 5, establishing a resilient commander protected by an oppressive ward cost. Sauron turns every opponent spell into an expanding Orc Army and converts combat connections into a repeatable hand-refill engine, discarding and drawing four cards each time the Ring tempts you. The deck capitalizes on this high card velocity through wheel payoffs like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Psychosis Crawler, and Glint-Horn Buccaneer, alongside asymmetric control pieces like Notion Thief and Archfiend of Ifnir. Seven copies of Nazgûl and Lord of the Nazgûl provide compounding combat pressure, while Living Death and Reanimate turn aggressive self-discard into explosive board recovery. By chaining draw-discard triggers and wheels, the deck quickly assembles overwhelming card advantage and drains the table while locking down opposing resources.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
• 1 Birthday Escape
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bone Miser
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cool but Rude
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Dark Deal
• 1 Dark Petition
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Glint-Horn Buccaneer
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Herald of Secret Streams
• 1 Hidden Lair
• 1 Hullbreaker Horror
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 4 Island
• 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
• 1 Lazotep Plating
• 1 Library of Leng
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Maskwood Nexus
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1 Mount Doom
• 2 Mountain
• 7 Nazgûl
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orcish Medicine
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Peer into the Abyss
• 1 Psychosis Crawler
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Rielle, the Everwise
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Ruthless Technomancer
• 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Seething Landscape
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothing of Sméagol
• 1 Spell Pierce
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 The Locust God
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Warg Rider
• 1 Whispering Madness
• 1 Widespread Brutality
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Winds of Change
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Xander's Lounge