The Evil One by user5030341

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Grixis "amass Orcs" / Ring-tempt midrange deck built around Sauron, the Dark Lord as both a card-advantage engine and a token generator. The primary plan is to trigger the Ring repeatedly-via Call of the Ring, nine Nazgul, Army combat, Ringsight, and other Ring cards-so Sauron can discard the hand and draw four, then convert that stream of cards into a huge army of Orcs and Wraiths. Combat wins come through Lord of the Nazgul tokens, Saruman, the White Hand's amass triggers, and Mauhur, Uruk-hai Captain's counter-doubling, with One Ring to Rule Them All and Mount Doom as drain/wipe finishers. Secondary lines reanimate Sauron, Lord of the Rings with Reanimate/Victimize for a massive trampling threat. No infinite combos exist; the deck wins through value, attrition, and a lethal board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Xander's Lounge