Commander · Grixis
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
Sauron, Lord of the Rings leads The Hosts of Mordor, a precon from Tales of Middle-earth Commander, released June 2023. This page covers what the box runs, what it is worth in singles and how its mana holds up.
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Art by Alex Brock
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Where it finishes
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Win rate by turn order
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How its games end for it
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By pod size
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Precon decks that front this commander
Sauron, Lord of the Rings is the face commander of an official Commander precon. The numbers below come from this site's own analysis of the decklist in the box: what it runs, what it costs, and how its colour sources measure against what Sauron, Lord of the Rings actually needs to cast.
The Hosts of Mordor (Tales of Middle-earth Commander, June 2023)
- 38 lands, 28 creatures in the stock list
- Bracket 3 floor out of the box, with 1 Game Changer in the list
- $128.08 on TCGplayer · $175.22 at Card Kingdom in singles, priced at the exact printing the box ships, and its most valuable card is Cavern-Hoard Dragon at $21.01
- Black: 24 sources, against the 33 that a double-black cost on turn 4 calls for. The colour is there on curve 75.3% of the time.
- Red: 22 sources, against the 30 that a double-red cost on turn 5 calls for. The colour is there on curve 75.6% of the time.
- Blue: 21 sources, against the 28 that a double-blue cost on turn 6 calls for. The colour is there on curve 77.6% of the time.
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