Sauron by user3210108

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis midrange build commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. It leverages an efficient 1-2 CMC ramp suite to deploy its 6-mana commander ahead of curve on Turn 4 or 5. The strategy centers on amassing Orc tokens, triggering the Ring Temptation mechanic through combat connections and nine copies of Nazgûl, and repeatedly triggering Sauron's ability to discard and draw four cards. Sauron's punishing ward ability protects the commander from single-target removal, while payoffs such as Archfiend of Ifnir, Cool but Rude, and The Great Goblin convert hand refreshes into board wipes and direct burn. The deck runs solid instant-speed interaction and protective equipment to safeguard its threats, closing the game around Turn 7 through overwhelming combat damage and burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mask of Griselbrand
  • 1 Mask of Riddles
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mindless Conscription
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sword of Feast and Famine
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Xander's Lounge