Sauron 27.09.26 by JFC

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Sauron, the Dark Lord deck executes a high-power Grixis reanimator and Ring-tempt midrange strategy. The plan revolves around utilizing Sauron's built-in Ward protection, continuous Orc Army amassing, and powerful hand-cycling triggers whenever an Army connects. A redundant package of nine Nazgûl provides aggressive board presence, growing rapidly while triggering the Ring mechanic. High-impact reanimation targets such as Archfiend of Ifnir, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, Terror of the Peaks, and Razaketh, the Foulblooded enter the battlefield ahead of curve through Entomb, Reanimate, and Necromancy. Archfiend of Ifnir turns Sauron's discard-four wheel triggers into asymmetric board wipes, placing -1/-1 counters across all opposing creatures. Meanwhile, efficient counterspells and board wipes maintain control over opposing threats. The deck closes games by overwhelming the table with massive Orc armies, pumped Nazgûl, Terror of the Peaks burn triggers, or a decisive Living Death that reanimates an insurmountable board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Afterlife from the Loam
  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Clearwater Pathway // Murkwater Pathway
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Devastating Onslaught
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverglide Pathway // Lavaglide Pathway
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solve the Equation
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Starwinder
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Xander's Lounge