Hosts of Mordor 2.0 by user1002276

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a dedicated Grixis Reanimator strategy commanded by Sauron, Lord of the Rings. The primary game plan revolves around rapidly stocking the graveyard with game-ending creature threats using efficient discard outlets and targeted tutors like Entomb, Buried Alive, and Faithless Looting. Once high-impact targets such as Ancient Brass Dragon, Scourge of the Throne, and Sheoldred, Whispering One are in the graveyard, the deck cheats them into play ahead of curve using low-cost reanimation spells including Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Victimize. By pairing massive evasive beaters with haste enablers like Anger and mass-recursion spells like Living Death and Breach the Multiverse, the deck quickly overpowers opposing life totals across turns 5 to 7. Sauron serves as an authoritative late-game top-end, casting an immediate 5/5 Orc Army, milling cards, and reanimating an additional creature upon cast. Robust backup plans and redundant graveyard engines ensure the deck retains strong resilience against creature removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Geode Golem
  • 1 Goblin Cratermaker
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Lidless Gaze
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Olivia, Crimson Bride
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Overseer of the Damned
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Whip of Erebos