Land of Shadow

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Grixis reanimator/amass deck centered on Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary plan is to fill the graveyard with looting/surveil spells, then cheat large Dragons and legendary creatures into play with Reanimate and Living Death. Anger and Wonder grant haste and flying from the graveyard, and the commander turns every Ring temptation into a discard-your-hand-plus-draw-four burst that also feeds reanimation. Secondary paths are amass token beatdown from Saruman, the White Hand and Sauron, Lord of the Rings, theft effects like In the Darkness Bind Them, and extra-combat finishers from Scourge of the Throne and Desert Were-Worm. There is no hidden commander and no deterministic infinite combo; the deck closes through combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Beseech the Queen
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blasphemous Edict
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Buried Alive
• 1 Careful Study
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Charcoal Diamond
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Crystal Vein
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Desert Were-Worm
• 1 Desolate Lighthouse
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Dreadful as the Storm
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Elbrus, the Binding Blade // Withengar Unbound
• 1 Everflowing Chalice
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Field of Ruin
• 1 Forbidden Alchemy
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
• 6 Island
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mindbreak Trap
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Omniscience
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Palantír of Orthanc
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron's Ransom
• 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
• 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
• 1 Scourge of the Throne
• 1 Shadow Rift
• 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
• 1 Smaug the Magnificent
• 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summons of Saruman
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Balrog, Flame of Udûn
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 The Mouth of Sauron
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Time Stretch
• 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
• 1 Treason of Isengard
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Wake the Dragon
• 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
• 1 Wonder