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The Mouth of Sauron

Legendary Creature — Human Advisor · {3}{U}{B} · Black/Blue commander

When The Mouth of Sauron enters, target player mills three cards. Then amass Orcs X, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in that player's graveyard. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

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What The Mouth of Sauron actually does

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

• Triggered ability · etbWhen The Mouth of Sauron enters, target player mills three cards. Then amass Orcs X, where X is the number of instant and sorcery cards in that player's graveyard.

What a The Mouth of Sauron deck needs

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

• opponent-mill spells and permanents, and mill payoffs (their library is the win)
• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)

The The Mouth of Sauron deck plan

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

• 20× Mill the opponents — their library is the win condition
• 9× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 10× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for The Mouth of Sauron

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.

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