LOTR Only Sauron by lawrence630

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange combat engine commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The strategy focuses on accelerating into Sauron on Turn 5, exploiting opponents' spellcasting to passively amass a towering Orc Army token. Upon entering combat on Turn 6, connecting with an evasive Ring-bearer triggers Sauron's powerful wheel effect, allowing you to discard low-value cards and draw four fresh cards each turn cycle. This massive card velocity feeds into combat overruns such as Assault on Osgiliath, Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning, and mass reanimation via Living Death. Built-in protection from Sauron's legendary sacrifice Ward and supporting countermagic make the commander difficult to dislodge with single-target removal, while cards like The Ozolith preserve amassed power across wipes to close the game by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Great Goblin, Foul-Hearted
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minamo, School at Water's Edge
  • 1 Moria Marauder
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nazgûl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shagrat, Loot Bearer
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar