Sauron, the Dark Lord by Griimdaark_mtg

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Grixis amass/tempt deck built around Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary plan is to grow a single Orc Army with amass triggers while using Sauron's Ring-tempt discard-to-draw-four ability for massive card advantage. The secondary path is a Wraith swarm: Lord of the Nazgul converts instants/sorceries into Wraith tokens, and once nine Wraiths are on the battlefield they all become 9/9. Saruman, the White Hand is the hidden engine, amassing on every noncreature spell. Finishers are Assault on Osgiliath, Scourge of the Throne, and Expropriate, with Bolas's Citadel as a value/alternate win.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Book of Mazarbul
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crack the Vault
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Expropriate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 4 Island
  • 1 Knuckles's Gloves
  • 1 Lidless Gaze
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 5 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Nazgûl Battle-Mace
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rhystic Study
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Uglúk of the White Hand
  • 1 Underground Sea
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Uruk-hai Berserker
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Volcanic Island
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin