Dawn Of Orc by user2938639

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange build commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary strategy focuses on deploying Sauron on Turn 5, generating Orc Army tokens from opponent spell casts, and attacking to trigger Ring temptation. Whenever the Ring tempts you, Sauron lets you discard your hand and draw four fresh cards. This card flow fuels discard payoffs like Bone Miser, Archfiend of Ifnir, and Rielle, the Everwise, while growing the 9 copies of Nazgûl into large combat threats. The deck closes the game on Turn 8 through evasive combat damage assisted by Wonder, The Black Gate, or Assault on Osgiliath. Sauron's steep Ward cost protects him from targeted removal, while reanimation spells like Reanimate and Living Death provide recovery against sweepers. The deck balances flavor and synergistic midrange pressure.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Duneyard
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Beacon of Unrest
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bone Miser
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chameleon, Master of Disguise
  • 1 Changeling Outcast
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Plate
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Faith of the Devoted
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Grimoire of the Dead
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Isengard Unleashed
  • 1 Isildur's Fateful Strike
  • 5 Island
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mindless Conscription
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
  • 1 Ominous Seas
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Rielle, the Everwise
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soulstone Sanctuary
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Wonder
  • 1 Worn Powerstone
  • 1 Zombify