Host of Mordor Upgrade by Jukes

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange strategy centered on Sauron, the Dark Lord, leveraging the Amass Orcs mechanic and the Ring tempts you synergy. The deck ramps on early turns using artifacts and landcyclers to cast Sauron by Turn 5. Once on the battlefield, Sauron punishes opponent spellcasting by generating an increasingly large Orc Army. Whenever an Army deals combat damage, the Ring tempts you, triggering Sauron's ability to discard your hand and draw four fresh cards. This card velocity fuels a board of nine Nazgûl and powerful Wraith nobles like Lord of the Nazgûl and Witch-king of Angmar, which grow larger with each Ring temptation. Evasion lands like The Black Gate ensure consistent combat connections, while sweepers like Blasphemous Act and Too Greedily, Too Deep clear opposing boards. The deck steadily overwhelms the table through relentless card flow, resilient combat pressure, and punishing anti-draw creatures.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Birthday Escape
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver
  • 1 Bothersome Noisemaker
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Deep Analysis
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 March from the Black Gate
  • 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 6 Mountain
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rage into the Valley
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Ringsight
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman's Trickery
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron's Ransom
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soothing of Sméagol
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 7 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 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Worn Powerstone