Sauron - Ein Seppl sie zu knechten by Bibbalbua

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

Sauron, the Dark Lord is a high-cost Grixis engine commander. The deck ramps with Sol Ring, the Talismans, Arcane Signet, and other rocks, then uses opposing spell casts to build an Army. If that Army connects, the Ring tempts the player and Sauron, the Dark Lord can turn a depleted hand into four new cards. Nazgûl, The Great Goblin, Saruman, the White Hand, and Orcish Siegemaster increase the combat payoff, while Living Death and creature recursion provide some recovery. Removal and a few counterspells help the deck reach combat. Its main limitation is not value generation but conversion: the list does not contain a compact win condition, infinite combo, extra-turn loop, or total lock. It can become a threatening board around turn 8, but opponents have several ordinary windows to remove the commander, Army, or attackers before the deck can close the game.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Azog, Moria's Ruin
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bolg of the North
• 1 Bonders' Enclave
• 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Corsairs of Umbar
• 1 Dark Confidant
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Gathering of Darkness
• 1 Glorious Gale
• 1 Great Ugly-Looking Goblin // Clap! Snap!
• 1 Grim Tutor
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 1 Inherited Envelope
• 1 Insatiable Avarice
• 2 Island
• 1 Jet Medallion
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Massacre Wurm
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mount Doom
• 2 Mountain
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orcish Medicine
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Otawara, Soaring City
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Rivendell
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
• 1 Saruman's Trickery
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Shivan Reef
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothing of Sméagol
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Stormcarved Coast
• 1 Sudden Spoiling
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 5 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Great Goblin
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Xander's Lounge