Sauron B4 by ClemFandango

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This deck is a Grixis midrange control deck helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The strategy focuses on establishing early mana development and deploying Sauron on Turn 5. Once on the battlefield, Sauron passively generates Orc Army tokens whenever opponents cast spells, turning opposing tempo into board presence. The deck converts these tokens into card advantage: whenever an Army deals combat damage, the Ring tempts you, allowing you to discard your hand and draw four fresh cards. This rapid card churn fuels reanimation spells like Living Death and Reanimate, while enabling asymmetric board control through Archfiend of Ifnir, Notion Thief, and Orcish Bowmasters. The deck protects its game plan with efficient interaction, including Force of Will and Deadly Rollick, and finishes games around Turn 8 through overwhelming combat damage from massive Orc Armies, evasive legendary creatures, and reanimated bomb threats.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Ifnir
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bitter Downfall
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corsairs of Umbar
  • 1 Crumbling Necropolis
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desolate Lighthouse
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dunland Crebain
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Extract from Darkness
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hostage Taker
  • 1 In the Darkness Bind Them
  • 6 Island
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Kraum, Violent Cacophony
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord of the Nazgûl
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mordor Muster
  • 1 Moria Scavenger
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcish Siegemaster
  • 1 Palantír of Orthanc
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Relic of Sauron
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Saruman the White
  • 1 Saruman, the White Hand
  • 1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Siege-Gang Commander
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Subjugate the Hobbits
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Summons of Saruman
  • 1 Sunken Hollow
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Mouth of Sauron
  • 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep
  • 1 Treasure Nabber
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wake the Dragon
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune