Sauron updated by srguacamole

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Grixis Sauron is a midrange control deck that turns opponent spells and its own noncreature spells into a giant Orc Army, then uses the Ring to convert damage into massive card draw. The primary path is amass/Wraith beatdown: Saruman, the White Hand plus cheap instants and sorceries grows an Army, while Sauron, the Dark Lord turns Army hits into discard-hand-draw-four. Secondary paths are the nine Nazgul/Lord of the Nazgul Wraith overrun and mass reanimation with Living Death and Rise of the Dark Realms. The commander is the card-advantage engine, not a combo piece; Lord of the Nazgul functions as a hidden commander for the Wraith plan.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Confusticate and Bebother
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Daze
  • 1 Dazzling Denial
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Essence Scatter
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fearsome Goblin Pair
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 5 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Wooded Foothills