Frodo by kingpinsssss

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Sauron's Bane

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck executes a focused Orzhov Voltron strategy centered on Frodo, Sauron's Bane as a lethal single-target elimination engine. By leveraging low-cost evasion equipment, unblockable spells, and auxiliary tempt-by-the-Ring cards, the deck rapidly advances the Ring's power to level four. Once fully leveled into a Halfling Rogue with four tempt triggers, Frodo bypasses traditional life totals, instantly eliminating players upon dealing combat damage. The supporting shell consists of low-power asymmetric board wipes like The Battle of Bywater and Dusk // Dawn, dense single-target removal, and robust protective spells like Skrelv, Defector Mite and Gods Willing. Because the Ring tempt counter never resets across deaths, Frodo maintains lingering pressure even after removal. While highly effective at picking off opponents one by one, the deck faces inherent timing constraints, requiring sequential combat steps across multiple turn rotations to eliminate the entire table.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Angelic Intervention
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Aphotic Wisps
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Black Widow, Double Agent
  • 1 Breach
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Courageous Resolve
  • 1 Dance of Shadows
  • 1 Despark
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Excavator
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faramir, Field Commander
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Flaming Fist
  • 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
  • 1 Funeral Charm
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gods Willing
  • 1 Gollum's Bite
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Heartless Summoning
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Land Tax
  • 1 Lurrus of the Dream-Den
  • 1 MacCready, Lamplight Mayor
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Now for Wrath, Now for Ruin!
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Open the Armory
  • 1 Orzhov Basilica
  • 1 Orzhov Signet
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Selfless Savior
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skrelv, Defector Mite
  • 1 Slip On the Ring
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spirit Mantle
  • 1 Stalwarts of Osgiliath
  • 1 Suspicious Bookcase
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Field
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Temple of Silence
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Black Breath
  • 1 Thieves' Tools
  • 1 Took Reaper
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Trusted Pegasus
  • 1 Uruk-hai Berserker
  • 1 War Barge
  • 1 War of the Last Alliance
  • 1 Wedding Invitation
  • 1 Whispersilk Cloak
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar