Bad Nazgul by GrandAlpaca

Format: Commander

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This is a Dimir discard-control deck helmed by Lord of the Nazgul, aiming to empty opponents' hands and generate a growing army of Wraith tokens. The primary game plan is to deploy a steady stream of cheap instants and sorceries-many of which are card selection, removal, or discard effects-to trigger the commander's token creation and power up the board. Discard payoffs like Waste Not, Megrim, and Fell Specter provide incremental advantage and direct damage. The deck can eventually close games with a massive Torment of Hailfire or by turning the Wraiths into 9/9s once nine tokens are present. It forgoes infinite combos in favor of a grindy, resource-depletion strategy that aligns with low-power, precon-level tables.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aclazotz, Deepest Betrayal // Temple of the Dead
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Blood Pact
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Conspiracy
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Delirium Skeins
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Enter the Enigma
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell Specter
  • 1 Fetid Pools
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fleeting Distraction
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Geth's Grimoire
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Gollum's Bite
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Hithlain Knots
  • 10 Island
  • 1 Let's Play a Game
  • 1 Leyline of Transformation
  • 1 Liliana, Heretical Healer // Liliana, Defiant Necromancer
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Megrim
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 2 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Octopus Form
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Otherworldly Gaze
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pilfer
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Quick Study
  • 1 Rapid Hybridization
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rush of Dread
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Shore Up
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Soulstone Sanctuary
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Temple of Deceit
  • 1 The Raven Man
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Tinybones, Trinket Thief
  • 1 Tolarian Winds
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Tune the Narrative
  • 1 Tyrant's Scorn
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Waste Not
  • 1 Welcome the Dead
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Worn Powerstone