9 Nazgul, 1 Ring by user8097214

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Dimir instant/sorcery-matters deck is helmed by Lord of the Nazgul, who turns every spell you cast into a 3/3 menace Wraith token. The primary plan is to chain cheap instants and sorceries - cantrips, counterspells, removal - to amass a wide board of Wraiths, then use the Ring-tempts sub-theme (five copies of Nazgul, Call of the Ring, Ringsight, etc.) to pump them with +1/+1 counters and eventually trigger Lord's 9/9 anthem. Reanimation spells like Living Death and Lich-Knights' Conquest provide board-wipe recovery, while Ad Nauseam offers explosive card advantage. The deck wins through combat damage, either by overwhelming opponents with evasive Wraiths or by using Rite of Replication to copy a key creature. It is a value-oriented control-swarm hybrid that leans heavily on its commander for token generation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Agna Qel'a
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage of Runes
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Bleed Dry
  • 1 Brainsurge
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Castle Vantress
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Chronicle of Victory
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Elrond, Lord of Rivendell
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fleeting Distraction
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Gravedig
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Harmonized Crescendo
  • 1 High Fae Trickster
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 Infernal Tutor
  • 1 Inspiration from Beyond
  • 11 Island
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Lich-Knights' Conquest
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mocking Sprite
  • 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 5 Nazgûl
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pelargir Survivor
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Refute
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Stern Scolding
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Think Twice
  • 1 Thriving Isle
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unbury
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Zombify