Sauron, the Lidless Eye leads a theft-and-sacrifice strategy that repeatedly steals opponents' creatures, swings with them, then sacrifices them for value before they can be returned. The deck uses a wide suite of temporary control effects — from single-target spells to mass takeovers like Insurrection — to fuel sacrifice outlets that trigger death-based drain effects through Blood Artist-style payoffs and Grave Pact-style forced sacrifice, grinding opponents down on life while denying their boards. The deck can also win through a direct damage angle, using enter-the-battlefield trigger amplifiers like Warstorm Surge alongside the commander's repeatable life drain activation to close out games.

Sauron, the Lidless Eye decklist

• Zealous Conscripts
• Molten Primordial
• Gonti, Night Minister
• Etali, Primal Conqueror
• Feldon of the Third Path
• Mayhem Devil
• Blood Artist
• Zulaport Cutthroat
• Syr Konrad, the Grim
• Woe Strider
• Viscera Seer
• Carrion Feeder
• Professional Face-Breaker
• Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• Terror of the Peaks
• Balefire Dragon
• Solemn Simulacrum
• Plaguecrafter
• Fleshbag Marauder
• Reassembling Skeleton
• Chainer, Nightmare Adept
• Pawn of Ulamog
• Terminate
• Bedevil
• Chaos Warp
• Deadly Rollick
• Village Rites
• Deadly Dispute
• Malakir Rebirth
• Rakdos Charm
• Infernal Grasp
• Abrade
• Big Score
• Blasphemous Act
• Damnation
• Toxic Deluge
• Feed the Swarm
• Kari Zev's Expertise
• Mob Rule
• Insurrection
• Living Death
• Reanimate
• Victimize
• Torment of Hailfire
• Grave Pact
• Dictate of Erebos
• Black Market Connections
• Warstorm Surge
• Animate Dead
• Necropotence
• Phyrexian Arena
• Court of Ambition
• Sol Ring
• Arcane Signet
• Rakdos Signet
• Talisman of Indulgence
• Fellwar Stone
• Wayfarer's Bauble
• Skullclamp
• Ashnod's Altar
• Phyrexian Altar
• Lightning Greaves
• Swiftfoot Boots
• The One Ring
• Command Tower
• Exotic Orchard
• Blood Crypt
• Dragonskull Summit
• Luxury Suite
• Haunted Ridge
• Blightstep Pathway
• Sulfurous Springs
• Smoldering Marsh
• Canyon Slough
• Temple of Malice
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Cabal Coffers
• Phyrexian Tower
• Castle Locthwain
• Myriad Landscape
• 10× Swamp
• 9× Mountain