-Hosts of Mordor- by DrAyo

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Grixis amass beatdown centered on Sauron, the Dark Lord-a single-faced commander used as a ward-protected draw engine. The primary win is an Army built by March from the Black Gate, Orcish Bowmasters, and Saruman, the White Hand; Mauhur multiplies every amass trigger. The hidden commander is Saruman, since every noncreature spell feeds the Army. Sauron's Ring-tempt wheel refuels after a hit, while Living Death and Extract from Darkness provide mass reanimation. There are no infinite combos; the normal kill is a gigantic Soul Immolation, or an unblockable Army/Sauron beatdown. The deck is a slow, grindy battlecruiser that relies on incremental Army growth and graveyard value.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Immolation
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar