New Untitled Deck by Jukes

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange strategy centered around Sauron, the Dark Lord, leveraging amass mechanics and the Ring tempts you to establish an overwhelming board presence and continuous card advantage. The game plan focuses on deploying early mana rocks to cast Sauron on Turn 5. Once Sauron enters the battlefield, opposing spellcasts passively grow an Orc Army, while Sauron's steep Ward ability shields him from targeted spot removal. Combat connections with the Army trigger the Ring tempts you, activating Sauron's hand-refill engine to repeatedly discard low-resource hands and draw four fresh cards. The deck scales pressure through seven copies of Nazgûl, token generation from Lord of the Nazgûl, and evasion provided by The Black Gate and Ring-bearer traits. While vulnerable to mass creature sweepers due to its multi-turn combat clock, the deck maintains strong resilience through built-in ward, redundant Wraith threats, and efficient Grixis reanimation.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 7 Nazgûl
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
  • 1 The Black Breath
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Worn Powerstone