March from the Black Gate by MakoOdyssey

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This Grixis midrange deck harnesses the armies of Mordor under Sauron, the Dark Lord, combining aggressive Amass mechanics with the formidable power of 9 Nazgûl. The strategy accelerates into Sauron by turn 5 using dependable artifact ramp. Once on the battlefield, Sauron passively generates massive Orc Armies whenever opponents cast spells and protects himself with a punishing ward trigger. When an Army attacks, the Ring tempts you, allowing you to discard low-value cards and draw 4 fresh spells each turn. This immense card churn fuels continuous token growth, anthem effects like Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning, and devastating graveyard recursion through Living Death. By granting evasion via The Black Gate and Orcish Siegemaster, the deck applies relentless combat pressure that overwhelms opponents across turns 6 through 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bolg of the North
• 1 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning
• 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Consider
• 1 Corsairs of Umbar
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Desolate Lighthouse
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Foray of Orcs
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Goblin-town Flunkies
• 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
• 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
• 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 6 Island
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Misty Mountains Raider
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 6 Mountain
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Palantír of Orthanc
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Rage into the Valley
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Ringwraiths
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 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 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summons of Saruman
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 6 Swamp
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Tidings of War
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Treason of Isengard
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Warg Rider
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Worn Powerstone