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Sauron, the Lidless Eye

Sauron, the Lidless Eye

Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror · {3}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

When Sauron enters, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn. {1}{B}{R}: Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Each opponent loses 2 life.
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What Sauron, the Lidless Eye 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, the Lidless Eye deck needs

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

The Sauron, the Lidless Eye deck plan

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

Best cards for Sauron, the Lidless Eye

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.

Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably

  1. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  2. Leechridden Swamp0 mana
  3. Marionette Apprentice2 mana
  4. The Meathook Massacre2 mana
  5. Mirkwood Bats4 mana
  6. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
  7. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
  8. Bontu's Monument3 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Norin the Wary1 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Voyager Staff1 mana
  4. Golden Argosy4 mana
  5. Clive, Ifrit's Dominant // Ifrit, Warden of Inferno6 mana
  6. Diabolic Servitude4 mana
  7. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana
  8. Ashnod's Intervention1 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  2. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  3. Solemn Simulacrum4 mana
  4. Cauldron Familiar1 mana
  5. Dualcaster Mage3 mana
  6. Fleshbag Marauder3 mana
  7. Imperial Recruiter3 mana
  8. Plaguecrafter3 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Replicating Ring3 mana
  2. Omarthis, Ghostfire Initiate0 mana
  3. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  4. Hanweir Garrison3 mana
  5. Sarkhan, Fireblood3 mana
  6. Field of the Dead0 mana
  7. Fountainport0 mana
  8. Grave Titan6 mana

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

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Terminate2 mana
  6. Fatal Push1 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 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. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Black Market Connections3 mana
  4. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  5. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  6. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  7. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  8. The One Ring4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  3. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  4. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  5. Commander's Plate1 mana
  6. Mithril Coat3 mana
  7. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  8. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana

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