Amass by ohcmaui

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Grixis midrange value deck built around Sauron, the Dark Lord. It pairs the amass Orcs mechanic with the Ring-tempts payoff: every opponent spell grows an Orc Army, and every Ring temptation lets Sauron discard your hand and draw four cards. The plan is to develop early amass pieces, cast Sauron, then chain Ring-tempt triggers to churn through the deck while growing one massive Army protected by Mithril Coat and My Precious // Allure of Power. Finishers include a trampling/deathtouch Army via Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant and Orcish Siegemaster, plus evasive haymakers like Smaug the Magnificent, Cavern-Hoard Dragon, Wake the Dragon, and the board-stealing In the Darkness Bind Them. A draw-hate package with Notion Thief and Orcish Bowmasters keeps opponents honest. This is not an infinite-combo deck; it wins through overwhelming card advantage, board presence, and tempo.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Argonath, Pillars of the Kings
  • 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Book of Mazarbul
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Fateful Discovery
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Game Over
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Lórien Brooch
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 5 Nazgûl
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Phial of Galadriel
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 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 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Storm of Saruman
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Temple of Epiphany
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar