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Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror · {5}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

When you cast this spell, amass Orcs 5, mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Trample Whenever a commander an opponent controls dies, the Ring tempts you.
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What Sauron, Lord of the Rings actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Sauron, Lord of the Rings deck needs

Plays as reanimator. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Sauron, Lord of the Rings deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  3. Cover of Darkness2 mana
  4. Wonder4 mana
  5. Reverse the Polarity3 mana
  6. Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
  7. Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
  8. Predators' Hour2 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  3. Diviner of Victory // Unwind History1 mana
  4. Merfolk Secretkeeper // Venture Deeper1 mana
  5. Most Decrepit Old Bird // Speak Secrets1 mana
  6. Pompous Battlemage // Improvised Act1 mana
  7. Stingerquill Voxmancer // Vicious Verse1 mana
  8. Zurgo Bellstriker1 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  2. Stitcher's Supplier1 mana
  3. Ripples of Undeath2 mana
  4. Emry, Lurker of the Loch3 mana
  5. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana
  6. Port of Karfell0 mana
  7. Tomb Fortress0 mana
  8. Millikin2 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Defile1 mana
  7. Tragic Slip1 mana
  8. Infernal Grasp2 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Entomb1 mana
  2. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  3. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  4. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  5. Imperial Seal1 mana
  6. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Tainted Pact2 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Mindbreak Trap4 mana
  2. Fierce Guardianship3 mana
  3. Force of Negation3 mana
  4. Force of Will5 mana
  5. Flare of Denial3 mana
  6. Pact of Negation0 mana
  7. An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
  8. Arcane Denial2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Chain Reaction4 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Street Spasm1 mana
  7. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  8. Crypt Rats3 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  3. Skullclamp1 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Herald's Horn3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  3. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  4. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  5. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  6. Commander's Plate1 mana
  7. Mithril Coat3 mana
  8. Akroma's Memorial7 mana

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