Sauron (First Draft) by user5374957

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck is a synergistic Grixis midrange build commanded by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary strategy focuses on deploying efficient early ramp to cast Sauron ahead of curve, turning every opposing spell into +1/+1 counters on a growing Orc Army token. Once Sauron connects in combat, the Ring tempts mechanic allows the pilot to discard low-value cards and draw four fresh cards each turn cycle, creating an overwhelming card-advantage engine. The deck converts this massive card flow into victory using evasion lands like The Black Gate and Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress, paired with aristocrat and burn payoffs including Mirkwood Bats, The Great Goblin, and Assault on Osgiliath. Backed by dense 1-to-2 CMC countermagic and Sauron's oppressive legendary-sacrifice Ward, the deck maintains superior board resilience while grinding out the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Assault on Osgiliath
  • 1 Ayara, First of Locthwain
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolg, Erebor's Reckoning
  • 1 Bone Shards
  • 1 Bone Splinters
  • 1 Book of Mazarbul
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deceive the Messenger
  • 1 Drafna, Founder of Lat-Nam
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Easterling Vanguard
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
  • 1 Glorious Gale
  • 1 Gorbag of Minas Morgul
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Lazotep Chancellor
  • 1 Lazotep Plating
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Miscast
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Nazgûl
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Nightscape Familiar
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spell Pierce
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Talisman of Dominance
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Teferi's Ageless Insight
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Great Goblin
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Theorist, Jace Beleren
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Windfall