Sauron Try 1 by user3538373

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Amass Aristocrats and Reanimator strategy commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The deck leverages Sauron's passive ability to amass an Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells, punishing active tables with a growing board presence. Once the Army attacks, the Ring tempting mechanic allows you to discard your hand and draw four cards, creating a powerful card-advantage engine that churns through your library. This constant wheeling fuels the graveyard with powerful targets for reanimation spells like Rise of the Dark Realms, Animate Dead, and Victimize. Meanwhile, aristocrat payoffs including Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade, and Syr Konrad, the Grim convert token creation and death into steady, table-wide life drain. Although the deck lacks fast mana and dense stack interaction, Sauron's built-in ward provides natural resilience against targeted removal. The deck steadily grinds down opponents through relentless combat pressure, token burn, and late-game reanimation swings.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 // Tierras
  • 1 Along the Crooked Way
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Breaking of the Fellowship
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gathering of Darkness
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 4 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phial of Galadriel
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Widespread Brutality
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin