Sauron by Incrediman

Format: Commander

Commander: Sauron, the Dark Lord

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a Grixis reanimator/value deck helmed by Sauron, the Dark Lord. The primary plan is to fill the graveyard with looting spells (Careful Study, Faithless Looting, Frantic Search) and entomb effects (Entomb, Buried Alive, Unmarked Grave), then cheat out game-ending threats like Archon of Cruelty, Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur, It That Betrays, and Void Winnower with a deep reanimation suite. Sauron himself is a card-advantage engine: opponents' spells amass Orcs, and when an Army deals combat damage the Ring tempts you, letting you discard your hand to draw four. The cleanest kill is the Dualcaster Mage + Twinflame + Lightning Bolt infinite combo, while the reanimated threat base provides a powerful combat fallback. The deck plays a midrange reanimator game, using its tutors to assemble either the combo or a dominant board.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agent of Treachery
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archon of Cruelty
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Bitter Triumph
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Careful Study
  • 1 Cephalid Coliseum
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consign to Memory
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Dance of the Dead
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragon's Rage Channeler
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drowned Catacomb
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Exhume
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Parting
  • 1 Flusterstorm
  • 1 Force of Will
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gifts Ungiven
  • 1 Gloomlake Verge
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Incarnation Technique
  • 2 Island
  • 1 It That Betrays
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur
  • 1 Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
  • 1 Kess, Dissident Mage
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Liliana, Waker of the Dead
  • 1 Lim-Dûl's Vault
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Lord Xander, the Collector
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mystic Remora
  • 1 Mystical Tutor
  • 1 Narset, Parter of Veils
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Notion Thief
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razaketh, the Foulblooded
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Sheoldred, Whispering One
  • 1 Shipwreck Marsh
  • 1 Sink into Stupor // Soporific Springs
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spellseeker
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 The Balrog of Moria
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Toxrill, the Corrosive
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Undercity Sewers
  • 1 Underground River
  • 1 Unmarked Grave
  • 1 Urabrask the Hidden
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
  • 1 Void Winnower
  • 1 Watery Grave
  • 1 Xander's Lounge