Sauron, Lord of the Wheels by LandoMTG

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Grixis wheel-and-reanimator deck built to turn Sauron, the Dark Lord's ring-tempt trigger into a "discard hand, draw four" engine. While Sauron amasses Orcs off opponent spells and grows a huge Army token, the rest of the deck pushes his discard theme in two directions: symmetric wheels like Wheel of Fortune and Windfall fuel Waste Not, Bone Miser, Archfiend of Ifnir, and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse; and a reanimation shell with Reanimate, Balthor the Defiled, and Rise of the Dark Realms turns the graveyard into a second hand. The deck can close through a Notion Thief-empowered one-sided wheel, a drain clock from Sheoldred, the Apocalypse plus Orcish Bowmasters, a mass reanimation swing, or a large Torment of Hailfire. The nine Nazgul provide a parallel ring-tempt/counter-synergy beatdown plan with All Will Be One.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alhammarret's Archive
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Balthor the Defiled
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Pit
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Darkslick Shores
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Library of Leng
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Talon Gates of Madara
  • 1 Taskmaster, Mercenary Mimic
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vesuvan Doppelganger
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wheel of Misfortune
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Xander's Lounge