Ash Nazg Durbatulûk (Sauron, the Dark Lord) (Copy) by Marowak

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 60

Deck overview

This deck combines a fast Grixis reanimator engine with a synergistic Nazgûl and Ring-tempting shell led by Sauron, the Dark Lord. Early turns focus on accelerating mana and placing massive threats into the graveyard using cards like Entomb, Buried Alive, and Unmarked Grave. Low-cost reanimation spells bring out game-warping creatures such as Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, Razaketh, the Foulblooded, and Archfiend of Ifnir as early as Turn 3. When Sauron enters the battlefield, every opposing spell creates an Orc Army, and combat connections trigger the Ring to tempt you, allowing you to discard empty hands and draw four fresh cards. The nine copies of Nazgûl rapidly grow in power with every Ring trigger, presenting immense combat pressure alongside Terror of the Peaks burn and mass reanimation spells like Living Death and Haunting Voyage. A robust suite of free and low-cost interaction protects your board while dismantling opposing strategies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Damnation
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Haunting Voyage
  • 2 Island
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Liquimetal Torque
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mindbreak Trap
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Persist
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ruthless Technomancer
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Strix Serenade
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volrath's Stronghold
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician