Sauron got them ribbed gloves🤤🤤 by CheckMatte

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This Grixis deck operates as a high-synergy tempo and creature beatdown engine led by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary strategy focuses on deploying 2-mana acceleration on Turns 1–2 to resolve Sauron on Turn 4. Sauron punishes opposing spell casts by automatically amassing an Orc Army token. On Turn 5, attacking with this Army or an evasive Ring-bearer triggers Ring temptation, letting the pilot discard depleted hands to draw four fresh cards each turn cycle. This massive card flow powers a board of nine Nazgûl, Lord of the Nazgûl, and evasion enablers like Herald of Secret Streams and Wonder. Sauron's formidable sacrifice ward protects the commander from targeted removal, while a balanced interaction suite of five counterspells, Deadly Rollick, and Cyclonic Rift disrupts key opposing plays. The deck closes games around Turn 7 through overwhelming combat damage and mass reanimation via Living Death.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deepglow Skate
  • 1 Dimir Signet
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flux Channeler
  • 1 Goblin Plate Mail
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Herald of Secret Streams
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Uncivil Unrest
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Xander's Lounge