New Untitled Deck by user3224749

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a thematic Grixis midrange engine commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. It leverages the Amass Orcs mechanic and Ring-temptation triggers to generate steady creature pressure and massive card replenishment. The primary game plan focuses on establishing early mana fixing, deploying Sauron on Turn 5, and passively accumulating a massive Orc Army as opponents cast spells. In combat, an evasive Army connects to trigger the Ring, enabling Sauron to discard depleted hands and draw four cards every turn cycle. The deck translates this recurring card surplus into potent board states featuring tribal lords like Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning and Lord of the Nazgûl, or explosive finishers such as Assault on Osgiliath and Living Death. Strong reactive tools, including Orcish Bowmasters and Notion Thief, punish opposing card draw, while Sauron's legendary ward makes single-target removal exceedingly difficult for opponents to execute.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nazgûl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar