Sauron by user9586290

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 88

Deck overview

This deck is a competitive Grixis combo shell helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord. It pairs lightning-fast win conditions with resilient midrange advantage engines. The primary game plan executes a compact Thassa's Oracle and Tainted Pact victory as early as Turn 3, supported by an alternate storm line in Underworld Breach and Brain Freeze. High-velocity mana rocks like Mox Diamond, Chrome Mox, and Sol Ring accelerate early mana, while a dense suite of premier black and blue tutors reliably retrieves required combo pieces. The deck effectively protects its win turns using free counterspells and Defense Grid. When the game extends into later turns, engines like The One Ring, Necropotence, and Sauron's Army combat wheel ability provide overwhelming card advantage, while Opposition Agent and Orcish Bowmasters punish opposing game plans.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Shelters All
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doomsday
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fierce Guardianship
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Flame of Anor
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Negation
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Drain
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mental Misstep
  • 1 Merchant Scroll
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Pact of Negation
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Personal Tutor
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Thassa's Oracle
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thoughtseize
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Wooded Foothills