Sauron 2.0 awaiting upgrades by Genghiskhant

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Grixis midrange and reanimator strategy helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord. It accelerates early mana to resolve Sauron by Turn 4. Opponents casting spells automatically build your Orc Army, which triggers the Ring when attacking. Each Ring trigger discards your hand and draws four new cards, filling your graveyard with game-ending creatures like Terror of the Peaks, Archfiend of Ifnir, and Hullbreaker Horror. A dense suite of nine Nazgûl grows rapidly with every temptation trigger, creating an aggressive combat clock. The deck finishes games through mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms, leveraging Anger in the graveyard for immediate haste. Strong countermagic, versatile spot removal, and Sauron's harsh legendary Ward tax ensure resilience against opposing disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood for the Blood God!
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Hullbreaker Horror
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sacrifice
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xander's Lounge