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Sauron, The Dark Lord
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Est deck cost: $4902.10
Salt sum: 90.54
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Commander

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Sauron, the Dark Lord

Ward—Sacrifice a legendary artifact or legendary creature. Whenever an opponent casts a spell, amass Orcs 1. Whenever an Army you control deals combat damage to a player, the Ring tempts you. Whenever the Ring tempts you, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw four cards.

Creature
Sauron, the Dark Lord (ltr) 329

Commander

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Planeswalkers

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Ashiok, Dream Render

Spells and abilities your opponents control can't cause their controller to search their library. −1: Target player mills four cards. Then exile each opponent's graveyard.

Planeswalker
Ashiok, Dream Render (war) 228
Narset, Parter of Veils

Each opponent can't draw more than one card each turn. −2: Look at the top four cards of your library. You may reveal a noncreature, nonland card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Planeswalker
Narset, Parter of Veils (cmm) 853
Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God

Nicol Bolas has all loyalty abilities of all other planeswalkers on the battlefield. +1: You draw a card. Each opponent exiles a card from their hand or a permanent they control. −3: Destroy target creature or planeswalker. −8: Each opponent who doesn't control a legendary creature or planeswalker loses the game.

Planeswalker
Nicol Bolas, Dragon-God (war) 207

Planeswalkers

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Artifacts and Enchantments

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Batterskull

Living weapon (When this Equipment enters, create a 0/0 black Phyrexian Germ creature token, then attach this to it.) Equipped creature gets +4/+4 and has vigilance and lifelink. {3}: Return this Equipment to its owner's hand. Equip {5}

Artifact
Batterskull (plst) NPH-130
Bitterblossom

At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life and create a 1/1 black Faerie Rogue creature token with flying.

Enchantment Kindred
Bitterblossom (2x2) 69
In the Darkness Bind Them

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.) I, II, III — Create a 3/3 black Wraith creature token with menace. The Ring tempts you. IV — For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Enchantment
In the Darkness Bind Them (ltc) 58
Mithril Coat

Flash Indestructible When Mithril Coat enters, attach it to target legendary creature you control. Equipped creature has indestructible. Equip {3}

Artifact
Mithril Coat (ltr) 245
Phyrexian Arena

At the beginning of your upkeep, you draw a card and you lose 1 life.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Arena (one) 104
Rhystic Study

Whenever an opponent casts a spell, you may draw a card unless that player pays {1}.

Enchantment
Rhystic Study (j22) 114
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (2x2) 314
Skullclamp

Equipped creature gets +1/-1. Whenever equipped creature dies, draw two cards. Equip {1}

Artifact
Skullclamp (moc) 379
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 451
Wheel of Fortune

Each player discards their hand, then draws seven cards.

Sorcery
Wheel of Fortune (3ed) 185

Artifacts and Enchantments

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Ramp

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Chrome Mox

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonartifact, nonland card from your hand. {T}: Add one mana of any of the exiled card's colors.

Artifact
Chrome Mox (2xm) 240
Jeska's Will

Choose one. If you control a commander as you cast this spell, you may choose both instead. • Add {R} for each card in target opponent's hand. • Exile the top three cards of your library. You may play them this turn.

Sorcery
Jeska's Will (clb) 799
Jeweled Lotus

{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add three mana of any one color. Spend this mana only to cast your commander.

Artifact
Jeweled Lotus (cmm) 396
Mana Crypt

At the beginning of your upkeep, flip a coin. If you lose the flip, this artifact deals 3 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Crypt (2xm) 270
Mana Vault

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. At the beginning of your upkeep, you may pay {4}. If you do, untap this artifact. At the beginning of your draw step, if this artifact is tapped, it deals 1 damage to you. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.

Artifact
Mana Vault (2x2) 308
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 410
Wayfarer's Bauble

{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Artifact
Wayfarer's Bauble (cmm) 983

Ramp

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Counters

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Commit

Instant
Commit // Memory (ncc) 216
Counterspell

Counter target spell.

Instant
Counterspell (cmm) 81
Deflecting Swat

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. You may choose new targets for target spell or ability.

Instant
Deflecting Swat (cmm) 214
Fierce Guardianship

If you control a commander, you may cast this spell without paying its mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell.

Instant
Fierce Guardianship (cmm) 94
Force of Negation

If it's not your turn, you may exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target noncreature spell. If that spell is countered this way, exile it instead of putting it into its owner's graveyard.

Instant
Force of Negation (2x2) 50
Force of Will

You may pay 1 life and exile a blue card from your hand rather than pay this spell's mana cost. Counter target spell.

Instant
Force of Will (dmr) 50
Lazotep Plating

Amass Zombies 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also a Zombie. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Zombie Army creature token first.) You and permanents you control gain hexproof until end of turn. (You and they can't be the targets of spells or abilities your opponents control.)

Instant
Lazotep Plating (scd) 57
Mana Drain

Counter target spell. At the beginning of your next main phase, add an amount of {C} equal to that spell's mana value.

Instant
Mana Drain (2x2) 57

Counters

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Recursion

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Animate Dead

Enchant creature card in a graveyard When this Aura enters, if it's on the battlefield, it loses "enchant creature card in a graveyard" and gains "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with this Aura." Return enchanted creature card to the battlefield under your control and attach this Aura to it. When this Aura leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it. Enchanted creature gets -1/-0.

Enchantment
Animate Dead (plst) EMA-78
Necromancy

You may cast this spell as though it had flash. If you cast it any time a sorcery couldn't have been cast, the controller of the permanent it becomes sacrifices it at the beginning of the next cleanup step. When this enchantment enters, if it's on the battlefield, it becomes an Aura with "enchant creature put onto the battlefield with Necromancy." Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control and attach this enchantment to it. When this enchantment leaves the battlefield, that creature's controller sacrifices it.

Enchantment
Necromancy (plst) VIS-64
Phyrexian Reclamation

{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Return target creature card from your graveyard to your hand.

Enchantment
Phyrexian Reclamation (j22) 124
Reanimate

Put target creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control. You lose life equal to its mana value.

Sorcery
Reanimate (jmp) 270
Underworld Breach

Each nonland card in your graveyard has escape. The escape cost is equal to the card's mana cost plus exile three other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast cards from your graveyard for their escape cost.) At the beginning of the end step, sacrifice this enchantment.

Enchantment
Underworld Breach (thb) 161

Recursion

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Creature

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Anger

Haste As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Creature
Anger (afc) 113
Archfiend of Ifnir

Flying Whenever you cycle or discard another card, put a -1/-1 counter on each creature your opponents control. Cycling {2} ({2}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Creature
Archfiend of Ifnir (akh) 78
Baleful Strix

Flying, deathtouch When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Baleful Strix (brc) 120
Baral, Chief of Compliance

Instant and sorcery spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. Whenever a spell or ability you control counters a spell, you may draw a card. If you do, discard a card.

Creature
Baral, Chief of Compliance (aer) 28
Dauthi Voidwalker

Shadow (This creature can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.) If a card would be put into an opponent's graveyard from anywhere, instead exile it with a void counter on it. {T}, Sacrifice this creature: Choose an exiled card an opponent owns with a void counter on it. You may play it this turn without paying its mana cost.

Creature
Dauthi Voidwalker (mh2) 81
Dockside Extortionist

When this creature enters, create X Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts and enchantments your opponents control. (Treasure tokens are artifacts with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Creature
Dockside Extortionist (2x2) 107
Emrakul, the Promised End

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each card type among cards in your graveyard. When you cast this spell, you gain control of target opponent during that player's next turn. After that turn, that player takes an extra turn. Flying, trample, protection from instants

Creature
Emrakul, the Promised End (emn) 6
Glen Elendra Archmage

Flying {U}, Sacrifice this creature: Counter target noncreature spell. Persist (When this creature dies, if it had no -1/-1 counters on it, return it to the battlefield under its owner's control with a -1/-1 counter on it.)

Creature
Glen Elendra Archmage (uma) 58
Imperial Recruiter

When this creature enters, search your library for a creature card with power 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Imperial Recruiter (mh2) 281
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger

When Kroxa enters, sacrifice it unless it escaped. Whenever Kroxa enters or attacks, each opponent discards a card, then each opponent who didn't discard a nonland card this way loses 3 life. Escape—{B}{B}{R}{R}, Exile five other cards from your graveyard. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its escape cost.)

Creature
Kroxa, Titan of Death's Hunger (thb) 221
Opposition Agent

Flash You control your opponents while they're searching their libraries. While an opponent is searching their library, they exile each card they find. You may play those cards for as long as they remain exiled, and you may spend mana as though it were mana of any color to cast them.

Creature
Opposition Agent (cmr) 141
Phyrexian Metamorph

({U/P} can be paid with either {U} or 2 life.) You may have this creature enter as a copy of any artifact or creature on the battlefield, except it's an artifact in addition to its other types.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Metamorph (2xm) 61
Purphoros, God of the Forge

Indestructible As long as your devotion to red is less than five, Purphoros isn't a creature. Whenever another creature you control enters, Purphoros deals 2 damage to each opponent. {2}{R}: Creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn.

Creature Enchantment
Purphoros, God of the Forge (cmm) 246
Shelob, Dread Weaver

Whenever a nontoken creature an opponent controls dies, exile it. {2}{B}, Put a creature card exiled with Shelob into its owner's graveyard: Put two +1/+1 counters on Shelob. Draw a card. {X}{1}{B}: Put target creature card with mana value X exiled with Shelob onto the battlefield tapped under your control.

Creature
Shelob, Dread Weaver (ltc) 29
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse

Deathtouch Whenever you draw a card, you gain 2 life. Whenever an opponent draws a card, they lose 2 life.

Creature
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse (dmu) 107
Snapcaster Mage

Flash When this creature enters, target instant or sorcery card in your graveyard gains flashback until end of turn. The flashback cost is equal to its mana cost. (You may cast that card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Creature
Snapcaster Mage (plst) ISD-78
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (cmm) 973
Spellseeker

When this creature enters, you may search your library for an instant or sorcery card with mana value 2 or less, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Creature
Spellseeker (cmm) 120
Squee, the Immortal

You may cast this card from your graveyard or from exile.

Creature
Squee, the Immortal (ncc) 275
Venser, Shaper Savant

Flash (You may cast this spell any time you could cast an instant.) When Venser enters, return target spell or permanent to its owner's hand.

Creature
Venser, Shaper Savant (2x2) 66
Witch-king of Angmar

Flying Whenever one or more creatures deal combat damage to you, each opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice that dealt combat damage to you this turn. The Ring tempts you. Discard a card: Witch-king of Angmar gains indestructible until end of turn. Tap it.

Creature
Witch-king of Angmar (ltr) 311
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician

Protection from Humans Pay 1 life, Sacrifice another creature: Put a -1/-1 counter on up to one target creature and draw a card. {B}{B}, Discard a card: Proliferate. (Choose any number of permanents and/or players, then give each another counter of each kind already there.)

Creature
Yawgmoth, Thran Physician (dmr) 110

Creature

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Removal

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Bedevil

Destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.

Instant
Bedevil (brc) 121
Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield. Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Sorcery
Blasphemous Act (cmm) 872
Cyclonic Rift

Return target nonland permanent you don't control to its owner's hand. Overload {6}{U} (You may cast this spell for its overload cost. If you do, change "target" in its text to "each.")

Instant
Cyclonic Rift (cmm) 84
Damnation

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated.

Sorcery
Damnation (2x2) 73
Soul Shatter

Each opponent sacrifices a creature or planeswalker with the highest mana value among creatures and planeswalkers they control.

Instant
Soul Shatter (scd) 108
The Meathook Massacre

When The Meathook Massacre enters, each creature gets -X/-X until end of turn. Whenever a creature you control dies, each opponent loses 1 life. Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, you gain 1 life.

Enchantment
The Meathook Massacre (mid) 112

Removal

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Land

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Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (plst) TMP-315
Badlands

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.)

Land
Badlands (3ed) 282
Blood Crypt

({T}: Add {B} or {R}.) As this land enters, you may pay 2 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.

Land
Blood Crypt (plst) DIS-171
Bloodstained Mire

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a Swamp or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Bloodstained Mire (ktk) 230
Bojuka Bog

This land enters tapped. When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard. {T}: Add {B}.

Land
Bojuka Bog (moc) 391
Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Land
Cabal Coffers (mh2) 301
Cavern of Souls

As this land enters, choose a creature type. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a creature spell of the chosen type, and that spell can't be countered.

Land
Cavern of Souls (2x2) 320
Command Beacon

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Put your commander into your hand from the command zone.

Land
Command Beacon (cmr) 349
Command Tower

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Land
Command Tower (cmm) 420
Fabled Passage

{T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Then if you control four or more lands, untap that land.

Land
Fabled Passage (m21) 246
Hall of the Bandit Lord

Hall of the Bandit Lord enters tapped. {T}, Pay 3 life: Add {C}. If that mana is spent on a creature spell, it gains haste.

Land
Hall of the Bandit Lord (plst) CHK-277
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (c16) 301
Island

({T}: Add {U}.)

Land
Island (woe) 263
Mana Confluence

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add one mana of any color.

Land
Mana Confluence (jou) 163
Mountain

({T}: Add {R}.)

Land
Mountain (woe) 265
Phyrexian Tower

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice a creature: Add {B}{B}.

Land
Phyrexian Tower (plst) USG-322
Polluted Delta

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Swamp card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Polluted Delta (ktk) 239
Reflecting Pool

{T}: Add one mana of any type that a land you control could produce.

Land
Reflecting Pool (clb) 358
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (cmm) 425
Scalding Tarn

{T}, Pay 1 life, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for an Island or Mountain card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Scalding Tarn (mh2) 254
Swamp

({T}: Add {B}.)

Land
Swamp (woe) 264
Underground Sea

({T}: Add {U} or {B}.)

Land
Underground Sea (3ed) 290
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth

Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.

Land
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth (tsr) 287
Volcanic Island

({T}: Add {U} or {R}.)

Land
Volcanic Island (3ed) 291

Land

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Tutor

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Demonic Tutor

Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Sorcery
Demonic Tutor (cmm) 150
Mystical Tutor

Search your library for an instant or sorcery card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Mystical Tutor (dmr) 60

Tutor

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Description

{"ops":[{"insert":"The objective of the deck is to build to a critical mass or point of no return. By putting out consistent threats and generating resources until the table can no longer answer either the encroaching orc armies, commander damage, or emrakul.\n"}]}
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