The Hosts of Mordor (The Lord of the Rings Commander) by cvest100

Format: Commander

Creator: cvest100

Commander: Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis battlecruiser and reanimator strategy piloted by Sauron, Lord of the Rings. It functions by filtering cards into the graveyard through cycling, looting, and surveil during the first three to four turns while accelerating mana with artifacts like Arcane Signet, Worn Powerstone, and Relic of Sauron. The deck's primary operational spike occurs on Turn 6 when it hardcasts its commander, triggering a potent on-cast sequence that amasses a 5/5 Orc Army, mills five cards, and returns a high-impact creature from the graveyard directly to the battlefield. The deck wins primarily through overwhelming combat damage, leveraging trample, evasion, and secondary token generation from Lord of the Nazgûl and Saruman, the White Hand. While resilient against creature counterspells due to cast triggers, it has limited instant-speed stack defense and relies on three response cycles to close out a pod.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bitter Downfall
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Goblin Cratermaker
  • 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inferno Titan
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lidless Gaze
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Voracious Fell Beast
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Worn Powerstone