Sauron by ClemFandango

Format: Commander

Creator: ClemFandango

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Midrange deck led by Sauron, the Dark Lord, combining the Amass Orcs and 'The Ring Tempts You' mechanics with reanimation and combat pressure. The game plan focuses on ramping into Sauron by Turn 5. Opponents' spellcasts quickly grow a massive Orc Army token. On Turn 6, combat connection triggers the Ring's temptation, allowing the pilot to discard their hand and draw four fresh cards. This steady replenishment fuels explosive graveyard plays via cards like Living Death and Reanimate, while board-controlling demons like Archfiend of Ifnir decimate opposing creatures. While resilient to targeted removal thanks to Sauron's steep ward cost, the deck wins strictly through combat damage without infinite combos. It relies on overwhelming resource accumulation, high creature power, and evasive tokens to eliminate the table across Turns 7 through 9.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bitter Downfall
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Kraum, Violent Cacophony
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Watery Grave