Sauron by Magyst

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 59

Deck overview

This deck is a high-powered Grixis midrange engine led by Sauron, the Dark Lord, combining resilient Army amass mechanics, Ring-tempting hand-cycling, and explosive graveyard reanimation. The deck accelerates in the early turns with dense 1- and 2-mana artifacts to cast Sauron by Turn 4. Once deployed, Sauron's Ward heavily taxes single-target removal while passively generating an Orc Army whenever opponents cast spells. Connecting with an Army triggers the Ring tempts ability, allowing the pilot to discard their hand and draw four fresh cards each turn. This card churn rapidly stocks the graveyard with massive threats like The Balrog of Moria and utility creatures like Anger and Wonder, setting up devastating Living Death or Reanimate swings. Backed by elite free interaction like Fierce Guardianship and Deflecting Swat, and oppressive punisher engines like Sheoldred, the Apocalypse and Archfiend of Ifnir, the deck dominates the mid-game and closes through lethal combat and drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1 Anger
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Arcane Denial
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Bilbo, Retired Burglar
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corsairs of Umbar
• 1 Counterspell
• 1 Crumbling Necropolis
• 1 Cyclonic Rift
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dimir Signet
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Drowned Catacomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fierce Guardianship
• 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
• 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
• 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
• 3 Island
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Living Death
• 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mana Drain
• 1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
• 1 Moria Scavenger
• 1 Morphic Pool
• 1 Mount Doom
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Mystic Remora
• 1 Nazgûl
• 1 Nightscape Familiar
• 1 Notion Thief
• 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Orcish Siegemaster
• 1 Palantír of Orthanc
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Relic of Sauron
• 1 Rhystic Study
• 1 Ringsight
• 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 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Shadowspear
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Steam Vents
• 1 Sulfur Falls
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swan Song
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Creativity
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Balrog of Moria
• 1 The Black Gate
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Ozolith
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Training Center
• 1 Underground River
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Warg Rider
• 1 Watery Grave
• 1 Windfall
• 1 Witch-king of Angmar
• 1 Wonder
• 1 Xander's Lounge