How You Remind Me by kujoprime

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Sauron, the Dark Lord helms a Grixis aristocrats and control deck that grinds out opponents through token generation, sacrifice loops, and potent card advantage. Sauron creates Orc Armies whenever opponents cast spells, providing constant sacrifice fodder while turning combat connections into four-card hand refills through the Ring tempts mechanic. The deck wins primarily by draining the table with aristocrat payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade, The Meathook Massacre, and Zulaport Cutthroat. Supported by sacrifice engines like Yawgmoth, Thran Physician and Warren Soultrader, the strategy controls the board with premium interaction before overwhelming opponents with inevitable life loss and combat pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Baleful Strix
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Coalition Relic
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crowded Crypt
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkwater Catacombs
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evereth, Viceroy of Plunder
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Lórien Revealed
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Maze of Ith
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Otawara, Soaring City
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Ripples of Undeath
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sephiroth, Fabled SOLDIER // Sephiroth, One-Winged Angel
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Snapcaster Mage
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Tezzeret the Seeker
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Meathook Massacre
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Cave
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat