Sauron, the Necromancer by fixl76

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Necromancer

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a mono-black midrange reanimator deck built around using Sauron, the Necromancer as a repeatable, combat-based reanimation engine. Sauron's attack trigger exiles a creature from the graveyard and makes a 3/3 Wraith token; once Sauron is made your Ring-bearer, those tokens stick around and join the army. Nine copies of Nazgul provide the backbone: each ETB makes the Ring tempt you, and every Ring tempt puts +1/+1 counters on all Wraiths, turning them into huge attackers. The deck layers an aristocrats drain package - Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mirkwood Bats, Syr Konrad, the Grim - on top of classic reanimation spells like Reanimate, Animate Dead, Buried Alive, and Dread Return. There are no infinite combos; the deck wins through repeated ETB drains, a growing Wraith army, and finishing bursts from Gray Merchant of Asphodel, Sanguine Bond, or Bolas's Citadel.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Callous Bloodmage
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Crypt of Agadeem
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Demon's Disciple
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomed Necromancer
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Glamdring
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Species Specialist
  • 35 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of the Animist
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Tragic Slip
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Vile Entomber
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat