Lord of the Nazgul by Vahhs

Format: Commander

Creator: Vahhs

Commander: Lord of the Nazgûl

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a Dimir Spellslinger and Kindred deck commanded by Lord of the Nazgûl. Its strategy revolves around accelerating into its 5-mana commander, then converting a dense suite of low-cost cantrips, removal, and counterspells into 3/3 menace Wraith tokens. Running eight copies of Nazgûl provides compounding +1/+1 counters each time the Ring tempts you, rapidly inflating the power of the Wraith army. Once critical mass is reached, Raise the Palisade or overloaded Cyclonic Rift clears blockers, while hitting nine Wraiths elevates the entire board to 9/9s for a decisive finish. The deck leverages premier blue card advantage such as Archmage Emeritus, Rhystic Study, and The One Ring to maintain spell density. While resilient against targeted trades and rich in reactive answers, it lacks hard locks or fast infinite combos, making it vulnerable to well-timed board sweepers before its combat clock fully matures.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archmage Emeritus
• 1 Birthday Escape
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Brainstorm
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Choked Estuary
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Consider
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Darkwater Catacombs
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Frantic Search
• 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
• 1 Gitaxian Probe
• 1 Glorious Gale
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• 1 Infernal Grasp
• 1 Inherited Envelope
• 9 Island
• 1 Kindred Discovery
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 8 Nazgûl
• 1 Negate
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Opt
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Ponder
• 1 Pongify
• 1 Preordain
• 1 Raise the Palisade
• 1 Rapid Hybridization
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reliquary Tower
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Ringsight
• 1 Ringwraiths
• 1 Roaming Throne
• 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
• 1 Sauron's Ransom
• 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
• 1 Serum Visions
• 1 Shipwreck Marsh
• 1 Snap
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soothing of Sméagol
• 1 Spark Double
• 1 Sunken Hollow
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tainted Isle
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 Thought Vessel
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin