In the Darkness Bind them by user6071410

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Grixis amass/reanimation deck that treats Sauron, the Dark Lord primarily as a repeatable ring-temptation draw engine; Saruman, the White Hand is the hidden commander of size, turning every noncreature spell into an Army-growing amass trigger. Discard-and-draw spells fill the graveyard, and mass reanimation such as Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms converts that graveyard into an overwhelming board. The primary kill is a hasted Army plus a Gray Merchant devotion drain after Living Death, while a secondary path keeps the table under pressure with reanimated legends and the One Ring to Rule Them All saga. Sauron's own ring trigger lets the deck discard its hand and draw four, keeping it fueled for the finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chainer, Nightmare Adept
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Hidden Lair
  • 1 Into the Flood Maw
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 4 Mountain
  • 2 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wonder