Lord of the Nazgul by Balrog_mtg

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

Lord of the Nazgûl leads a Dimir spellslinger and tribal aggro-control deck designed to overwhelm opponents with an evasive army of Wraiths. The game plan focuses on deploying early cost reducers and cantrips, landing the commander on Turn 4, and converting every cheap instant and sorcery into 3/3 menace Wraith tokens. The deck features nine copies of Nazgûl, which repeatedly trigger the Ring tempts mechanic to place +1/+1 counters on the entire Wraith board. Copy effects like Spark Double, Irenicus's Vile Duplication, and Roaming Throne exponentially accelerate token generation and stat scaling. A low-curve interaction package of efficient countermagic and free removal safeguards the board while triggering token creation at instant speed. Once nine Wraiths gather or Raise the Palisade clears opposing blockers, the army swells into 9/9 juggernauts to eliminate the table across two combat cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Adaptation
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Baral, Chief of Compliance
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Case of the Ransacked Lab
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gitaxian Probe
  • 1 Glasspool Mimic // Glasspool Shore
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Haughty Djinn
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kindred Discovery
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Mutavault
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Serum Visions
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Slip Out the Back
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Spark Double
  • 1 Stubborn Denial
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Sunken Ruins
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Isle
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor