New Untitled Deck by jester86

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis Midrange strategy centered on Sauron, the Dark Lord, combining token accumulation via the Amass Orcs mechanic with a robust reanimator subtheme. Early turns are dedicated to hitting land drops, landcycling for fixing, and deploying 2-3 CMC mana rocks to accelerate Sauron into play on Turn 5. Once established, Sauron punishes opponents for casting spells by building a massive Orc Army while deterring targeted spot removal through a steep Ward cost. Combat connections with the Army trigger the Ring Temptation, allowing you to discard small hands and draw four cards every cycle. The massive card velocity fuels graveyard recursion spells like Reanimate, Living Death, and Extract from Darkness to cheat high-cost monsters like The Balrog of Moria and Inferno Titan onto the battlefield. The deck wins by overwhelming opponents through sustained, high-power combat damage across multiple turn cycles.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Bitter Downfall
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Choked Estuary
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Everflowing Chalice
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Foray of Orcs
  • 1 Forbidden Alchemy
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Frostboil Snarl
  • 1 Gollum, Scheming Guide
  • 1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
  • 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
  • 1 Gríma Wormtongue
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 1 Inferno Titan
  • 1 Isildur's Fateful Strike
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Languish
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Monstrosity of the Lake
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Oliphaunt
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Rampaging War Mammoth
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Revenge of Ravens
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sadistic Shell Game
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Lidless Eye
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treason of Isengard
  • 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Voracious Fell Beast
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Warg Rider
  • 1 Worn Powerstone