The Dark Lord by Jcman1331

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is a Grixis amass/Orc-tribal value deck built around Sauron, the Dark Lord's Ring-temptation loop. The core plan is to build a massive Army token through amass triggers, connect with it to trigger the Ring, then discard the hand and draw four - turning every attack into a huge card-advantage engine. The graveyard functions as a second hand: loot and discard outlets pitch big creatures, which reanimation spells like Reanimate, Blood for Bones, and Living Death then cheat into play. Secondary wins come from Lord of the Nazgul's Wraith swarm (9/9s at critical mass) and The Great Goblin's ping damage. The deck is a grindy, value-oriented midrange build with no fast infinite combos, relying on incremental Army growth and recursive threats to out-value the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Along the Crooked Way
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood for Bones
• 1 Bolg of the North
• 1 Bonecaller Cleric
• 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
• 1 Brass's Bounty
• 1 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
• 1 Callous Dismissal
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Corsairs of Umbar
• 1 Dark Fortress
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Desolate Lighthouse
• 1 Divert Disaster
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Enchanted River's Grasp
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Foray of Orcs
• 1 Forum Necroscribe
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Gathering of Darkness
• 1 Gnashing of Teeth
• 1 Goblin Plate Mail
• 1 Grim Bounty
• 1 Havengul Lich
• 1 Honor the God-Pharaoh
• 8 Island
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Merfolk Looter
• 8 Mountain
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Obelisk of Grixis
• 1 Oliphaunt
• 1 Orcish Medicine
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Rage into the Valley
• 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Revoke Demise
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 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 Seize the Spoils
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 6 Swamp
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Thrór's Map
• 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Warbeast of Gorgoroth
• 1 Zaffai and the Tempests