Sauron, The Mass-y by Bobzilla

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This Grixis Midrange deck revolves around Sauron, the Dark Lord, leveraging the Amass Orcs and the Ring tempts you mechanics to generate massive card advantage and board presence. The deck utilizes efficient 2-CMC mana rocks to deploy Sauron on Turn 5. Sauron passively generates and grows an Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells, while his formidable Ward ability punishes targeted removal. Once an Army connects with combat damage, Sauron's ability discards spent hands to draw four fresh cards each turn, feeding powerful discard synergies such as Archfiend of Ifnir and Sheoldred, the Apocalypse. The deck features robust protection, flexible stack interaction, and evasive land tech like The Black Gate and Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress to ensure combat connections. It closes games through scaling combat pressure, extra combat phases from Desert Were-Worm, or explosive direct damage via Chandra's Ignition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Desert Were-Worm
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faerie Mastermind
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Morphic Pool
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 2 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phial of Galadriel
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Psychic Frog
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ozolith
  • 1 The Reality Chip
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valki, God of Lies // Tibalt, Cosmic Impostor
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Wan Shi Tong, Librarian
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Widespread Brutality
  • 1 Windfall
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Xander's Lounge