Hosts of Mordor Upgrade by user4230714

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Midrange strategy centered on Sauron, the Dark Lord. It builds steady board presence through the amass Orcs mechanic whenever opponents cast spells, leveraging combat connections to repeatedly trigger Ring tempts and draw four cards at a time. The deck converts this massive card advantage into heavy board control using high-impact sweepers like Blasphemous Act and Decree of Pain, before closing the game with massive beaters, extra combat steps from Scourge of the Throne, or a decisive Living Death. Sauron's steep Ward ability provides strong built-in resilience against targeted interaction, allowing the deck to dominate long, grindy multiplayer games through sheer resource attrition and evasive combat damage.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anger
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Basalt Monolith
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Consider
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Decree of Pain
• 1 Deep Analysis
• 1 Desolate Lighthouse
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Extract from Darkness
• 1 Fact or Fiction
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fall of Cair Andros
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fiery Inscription
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Frostboil Snarl
• 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers
• 1 Gríma Wormtongue
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Guttersnipe
• 1 Hostage Taker
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 6 Island
• 1 Knollspine Dragon
• 1 Languish
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 7 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Confluence
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
• 1 Palantír of Orthanc
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Rising of the Day
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Saruman, the White Hand
• 1 Sauron's Ransom
• 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
• 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
• 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
• 1 Scourge of the Throne
• 1 Shadow of the Enemy
• 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spiteful Banditry
• 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Summon Undead
• 1 Summons of Saruman
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 1 Surrounded by Orcs
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Balrog, Durin's Bane
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The Mouth of Sauron
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Voracious Fell Beast
• 1 Wake the Dragon
• 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
• 1 Worn Powerstone