Sauron, Lord of the Rings serves as both a value engine and a reanimation tool, using his cast trigger to mill cards into the graveyard while immediately returning a creature to the battlefield and building a growing Orc Army token. The deck accelerates this Army through repeated amass triggers from creatures like Saruman, the White Hand and combat-dealing Orcs, while a heavy suite of instant and sorcery spells fuels Lord of the Nazgûl to flood the board with Wraith tokens that can reach 9/9 if nine are assembled. The deck wins through overwhelming combat damage from a massive Army, a swarm of Wraiths, and reanimated threats, backed by repeated graveyard recursion and mass removal to clear the way.

Sauron, Lord of the Rings decklist

• Anger
• Arcane Denial
• Arcane Signet
• Basalt Monolith
• Bitter Downfall
• Blasphemous Act
• Boon of the Wish-Giver
• Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• Choked Estuary
• Command Tower
• Commander's Sphere
• Consider
• Corsairs of Umbar
• Crumbling Necropolis
• Decree of Pain
• Deep Analysis
• Desolate Lighthouse
• Dragonskull Summit
• Drowned Catacomb
• Everflowing Chalice
• Evolving Wilds
• Extract from Darkness
• Fact or Fiction
• Faithless Looting
• Feed the Swarm
• Field of Ruin
• Fiery Inscription
• Forbidden Alchemy
• Foreboding Ruins
• Frostboil Snarl
• Goblin Cratermaker
• Goblin Dark-Dwellers
• Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
• Gríma, Saruman's Footman
• Guttersnipe
• Hostage Taker
• In the Darkness Bind Them
• Inferno Titan
• 6× Island
• Knollspine Dragon
• Languish
• Lidless Gaze
• Living Death
• Lord of the Nazgûl
• Merciless Executioner
• Mind Stone
• Monstrosity of the Lake
• Moria Scavenger
• 7× Mountain
• Notion Thief
• Orcish Siegemaster
• Path of Ancestry
• Rampaging War Mammoth
• Reanimate
• Relic of Sauron
• Rogue's Passage
• Saruman, the White Hand
• Scourge of the Throne
• Shelob, Dread Weaver
• Shiny Impetus
• Siege-Gang Commander
• Smoldering Marsh
• Sol Ring
• Subjugate the Hobbits
• Sulfur Falls
• Sulfurous Springs
• Summons of Saruman
• Sunken Hollow
• 6× Swamp
• Terramorphic Expanse
• The Balrog of Moria
• The Black Gate
• The Mouth of Sauron
• Thrill of Possibility
• Too Greedily, Too Deep
• Treason of Isengard
• Treasure Nabber
• Troll of Khazad-dûm
• Underground River
• Voracious Fell Beast
• Wake the Dragon
• Worn Powerstone
• Sauron, the Dark Lord