The Dark Lord by Strehsd

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Grixis reanimator shell trying to do the most degenerate possible thing: discard or mill a table-warping Dragon into the graveyard, then reanimate it far ahead of its mana cost. Sauron, the Dark Lord is both the payoff and the engine - every Ring temptation lets you discard the hand, then draw four, turning the graveyard into a second hand while amassing a growing Orc Army. The primary plan is to bin Ancient Copper Dragon, Ancient Silver Dragon, Scourge of the Throne, or The Balrog of Moria, then cheat them back with Reanimate, Animate Dead, Necromancy, Living Death, or Rise of the Dark Realms. The deck can grind out a Wraith swarm with nine Nazgul, Lord of the Nazgul, and Sauron, the Necromancer, and finish games with a massive Chandra's Ignition or Soul Immolation on an enormous Army.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Silver Dragon
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bender's Waterskin
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Escape Containment
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Giantfall
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Hide on the Ceiling
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 6 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phial of Galadriel
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Immolation
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Superior Spider-Man
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whispering Madness
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Withering Torment