“Hosts of Mordor” LOTR Precon Upgrade Guide | The Command Zone 541 | MTG Commander Lord of the Rings
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One does not simply play “Hosts of Mordor” out of the box. So here’s our budget upgrade guide for the blue, black, and red precon from Magic’s latest set, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle Earth. We’ve got 10 cards to add and 10 to remove in order to maximize this deck’s villainous powers. That way it’ll be able to compete at more Uruk-HAI-powered tables. Don’t miss it!
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Timestamps
00:00:00 - The Command Zone is Hiring!
00:01:00 - Intro
00:04:51 - Main Topic Discussion
00:05:42 - Sauron, Lord of the RIngs
00:07:51 - Saruman, the White Hand
00:09:58 - "The Hosts of Mordor" Deck Stats
00:13:26 - Who Should You Run as the Commander?
00:14:38 - Reprint Value
00:19:03 - Notable Reprints
00:22:24 - Best Cards in the Deck
00:29:17 - Cards to Add
00:43:55 - Splurge Cards
00:45:20 - Cards to Take Out
00:53:38 - How the Deck Plays
00:55:05 - Outro
00:58:06 - Ladee Danger and New Zealand
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What do you think of the “Hosts of Mordor” precon? Any cards we missed? Any cards we suggested to take out or add that you disagree with?
Doesn’t lier stop the ward protecting the amass creatures?
I would love to have an out-of-nowhere finisher like Flinging the Army or giving them infect with Tainted Strike.
Could you guys make a precon upgrade video, using only lord of the rings cards? Keep it in universe?
@@kenn5412 they will most likely won’t but I do agree with you, keeping it in the same universe is a flavour win.
@@kenn5412for especially the hosts of mordor deck it's kinda hard to (not impossible, just really difficult) but yeah it'd be cool
You should make a Extra turns only with the decks you have upgraded, for us to see them in play.
Yes please, I was just a little let down I couldn't see them on game knights
Yes please
I think about this every time a new set comes out
Yeah like it'd be awesome to see it with the "protagonist" commanders just once. I think they call them lead singers, but I feel like main character names like protagonist or in Sauron's case, antagonist, would be much more on point.
Alangomes dug too greedily and too deep in the dark... you know what the fans awakened in the depths.... shadow and flame...
My suggestion for an upgrade would be Harmonic Prodigy. Since Saruman is a wizard, Harmonic Prodigy will allow us to Amass X twice whenever we cast a noncreature spell!
Great add!
Seriously. Great add.
Sauron isn’t a wizard, he’s an Avatar Horror
@@DarcyBailey-tx8py Saruman
00:00 - The Command Zone is Hiring!
01:00 - Intro
04:51 - Main Topic Discussion
05:42 - Sauron, Lord of the RIngs
07:51 - Saruman, the White Hand
09:58 - "The Hosts of Mordor" Deck Stats
13:26 - Who Should You Run as the Commander?
14:38 - Reprint Value
19:03 - Notable Reprints
22:24 - Best Cards in the Deck
29:17 - Cards to Add
43:55 - Splurge Cards
45:20 - Cards to Take Out
53:38 - How the Deck Plays
55:05 - Outro
58:06 - Ladee Danger and New Zealand
thx for the work
Thank youuu
I love the energy Ladee and Rachel bring to the table together. This is absolutely fantastic.
I love hosting with Rachel it's all fun and games
I kept Sauron as my commander and one of the funniest upgrades I got is cairn wanderer. A five mana shapeshifter/changeling with the effect that it basically gets all the important keywords from cards in your own grave. Since its a changeling, its also an army. So you can buff it and, for example, if you have a cavern hoard dragon in your grave, it gets flying, trample and haste.
I wish they would also do a Budget/Non budget upgrade with just LOTR cards for these precons as well. I know a lot of people are just doing LOTR upgrades to these.
Same. My group is LOTR only. Hope all hey update this once card prices drop.
Same. I just don't see Phyrexians and Cabenna stuff in LOTR for example. Didn't even finish this episode cause the flavor is not right.
@@Pullituz I think it depends on the cards. Generic creatures and generic spells, even if they reference a different plane. It's less impactful for me. Seeing a legendary creature, does cause a bit of a problem for me. Anyways though, all these guys fucked up. My Saruman deck is going to be like 75% Goblin token spells. 1 turn with Saruman and you're gonna have a huge board state lol Gonna be so freaking fun.
Spot on, I was shocked the LOTR cards weren't in here, it shows they were overly ambitious in my opinion
@@mrnoobgaming6051 Why's that? They explained that they didn't include LoTR cards because they didn't have prices yet since the set hadn't been released at the time of filming.
Surprised they didn't mention that Lier also turns off Saruman's ward effect.
😂😂😂 hilarious josh and Jimmy introduce yet another episode of Rachael's command zone..... Now what this woman has done is incredible.... Become absolutely irreplaceable.... 👏 Bravo Racheal
"stats are back on the menu boys!" :D
Best line!
I died when she said it!
I personally switched out the precon commander with Sauron, the Dark Lord. Took out the gutter snipe and made the deck into a ring tempting deck. I’ve played it once so far and it was a blast! Can’t wait to slowly upgrade it more and more!
I did exactly the same thing!!! Would you share the list with me? I can also show you my decklist if you want
@@MrEdDyelo I’ll share the list later when I get home from work! It’s not finished by a long shot, but it’s got some decent things.
I made 2 decks out of it 1 sauron reanimate and cycling, with the demon that turns cycling into a one sided wrath, and saruman spell slinger
@@Npocommander Nice! I like to try to have different colored decks soo in addition to this I made a mediocre Aragorn deck. All my decks have didnt themes and colors. Lol
@@gazza4589I own all the precons since zendikar rising one of my favorites is obuum with 54 lands, some precons I upgrade some I chop up for parts to other decks some sit there in their boxes waiting for me to touch them, my breya is made from osgir, urza and the buckle up precon
Rachel has been such a boon. She literally has chemistry with EVERYONE. Such a treasure. Token.
This is a wonderfully constructed upgrade guide and I do believe it would make for a much more fun-to-play deck than the one that comes out of the box, however, it kinda sucks to take out the face commander from the precon, specially when that commander is Sauron, Lord of the Rings, and this is a Lord of the Rings set! I would love to see an upgrade for Sauron himself just to see how that reanimate/big creatures strategy would work with him in the command-zone!
Yeah, I found this upgrade super disappointing as well. The deck is very cool, with Sauron as a looming threat, backed by the orc army raised by Saruman.
Getting rid of Sauron entirely and turning it into a spell slinger deck is very meh.
It would have been happy if they'd at least had a 5 minute segment on cards to add and remove if you wanted to keep Sauron as the commander. Even if they didn't go into full analysis, it would have been something.
As it is, it kinda feels like the theme of the deck is somewhat discarded.
This is hands down the best thumbnail in the history of commandcast
Sauron the dark lord is a really simple shoe in for a less expensive mana cost and makes it really easy to do what the deck wants
I did the same. I kept sauron the lord of the rings in my deck tho as a nice late game bomb tho.😊
Ladee: "im an art s-cker, if its got cool art on it, i'm all about it" OMG SAMEEEEEE this edition its so beautiful😭😭😭 i want them all
Dreadhorde Invasion is a cool enchantment for the upgrade too. Due to the amass ruling, the big army Sarumon makes will be a zombie and have lifelink on the swing.
A wonderful upgrade guide. In line with the theme you're going for, you could also add an Arcbond. You time it right its a complete blowout in this style of deck
I legit made a deck for both the commanders with Sauron being reanimator and Sarumon being spell slinger. Excited to play test them!
The second time I played this deck, I had anger in the graveyard, Sauron came out, milled a scourge of the throne, due to a card an opponent had that game, I took out the rohan / gondor deck from more than full health in a single round, Sauron had 11 power first swing, 13 the next, meaning the Orcish siegemaster had 11 + 13 power in a single round with Trample xD I also in the first game got the Balrog out in turn 4. XD
Ladee Safety and Rachel Wrecks with the deck techs
I'm not sure if they get the full main set info before making these videos or just the commander decklists, but for these LoTR upgrades especially, I would have loved a section for cards from the main set that work great in the deck (since they can't factor them into the upgrade due to them not having prices yet, especially reasonable/not-prerelease prices).
Me too. They are dirt cheap and they keep you in the world of LOTR
I personally like Embercleave in this deck, since we're already splurging. With Saruman out, it turns into a Flash speed 6/6 that becomes a 7/7 with double strike and trample!
You nailed it. The Army needs trample and preferably vigilance too.
Commander:
Saruman, the White Hand
Add:
Angrath, Captain of Chaos
Widespread Brutality
Maskwood Nexus
Archmage Emeritus
Wizards of Thay
Primal Amulet
Anhelo, the Painter
Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant
Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
Syr Konrad, the Grim
Honorable Mentions:
Rise of the Dark Realms
Rhystic Study
Remove:
Shiny Impetus
Basalt Monolith
Subjugate the Hobbits
Monstrosity of the Lake
Sauron, Lord of the Rings
Rampaging War Mammoth
Inferno Titan
Troll of Khazad-dûm
Voracious Fell Beast
Knollspine Dragon
If Cruel Ultimatum isn’t in the upgraded deck, I’m going to be very disappointed 😂
It took three attempts but i finally won with this upgrade in a three player pod against Be'lakor, the Dark Master + Szarekh, the Silent King and it was a blast.
The last 2-3 turns having Lier, Disciple of the Drowned as the MVP.
Thanks for the great work doing the research for these upgrades.
It's very rare to find an ad break that not only doesn't bore me to death, but even makes me giggle, and Liberator's Factor endorsement had me cackling 😂
Damn was really hoping for a sauron deck, not a spell slinger.
Preach, dude.
treasure nabber worked so great the first time i played this deck, turn 4 commander was brutal... i was the threat from then on
Love to see you two in charge of this episode ❤
Many people want to see the upgraded decks in extra turns to see the gameplay. I believe this would be great guys!
Hope Rachel does an episode for her in world upgrades!
10:10 Stats are back on the menu, boys 😎😎😎
I know y'all didn't want Subjugate the Hobbits in the deck but I do think it has some synergy. You get to Amass 7, which by itself is massive. It would decimate most, if not all token strategies. Also, what do y'all think of having Ovika in the deck? I know the CMC is really high but it can create tons of Goblins- which Saruman likes - and they all have haste.
It was honestly a really hard cut to make! I love the card a lot but I was trying my best to streamline it down.
I personally switched out the precon commander with Sauron, the Dark Lord and made it more of a ring tempting deck. I kept on Subjugate the Hobbits because it’s a new card. I was able to play it the one and only time I’ve played with the deck so far. It’s such a fun deck and I can’t wait to upgrade it slowly and keep playing more!
Think about the floor of this card though… there are no small creatures on the battlefield, your commanders in the zone, and you draw this card. Are you happy? Also, a 7/7 token is NOT massive in commander where removal is so prevalent
@JonPayne777 it was just an observation. And I didn't see it as just a 7/7. I saw it as +7/+7. Which is still pretty decent.
@@joranmoore5663 not attacking you, just telling you the card got cut because it’s bad. A 7/7 or a 100/100 token, my opinion is the same: dies to removal, and can be blocked by a 1/1 token
Hope to see a game with the upgraded decks please !!!
Also ladee love your hair !! Rachel you stay being funny af
I feel like THAT version of sauron should have had "can't be countered" on it
Don’t know if this was taken into account, but there was an errata made on the war of the spark amass cards to now read amass X zombies instead of just amass X, meaning that you would have to amass two different armies, a zombie one from the war of the spark cards and an orc one from the lotr cards.
I don't think you're correct. They would become a mix of both, so it would be a zombie orc army, as per rule 701.44a
Wrong. They become a mixed army of both. 🎉 orc zombie army party
Cycling also gets them into the yard for the reanimator theme of the precon.
The buying every card just to have them is literally me rn. I love LotR so much! I just want to be able to look at em!
All will be One is a great add. Let's you ping a target for the your amass value.
I would also take out Everflowing Chalice since it just doesnt amass (mana value 0).
Army of the Damned is a fun finisher if you also have the War of the Spark cards which amass zombies and give them evasion.
And a great non budget add would be the Ozolith as well
I know out of the box this deck feels unfocused, but it is very good a adapting to what ever is happening. It is a blast to pilot and when be better had the upgrade stayed with the face commander.
I like Lier a lot, but it is a bad idea in this deck. It turns off Ward. Ward counters spells if the ward cost is not paid.
good catch
It is but having alt cons in there for value is also important. The card is so good!
@@LadeeDangerier seems better with the original commander, where it’s not a nombo, I also don’t like the fact it could stop opponents counter other people win cons
Ladee with the cannonically correct shirt
I actually won using a combo Sauron with the Balrog. Granted, it was hard to keep casting Sauron every time he died, but he kept bringing the Balrog back out with him (didn't use the exile effect), and together, they were just oppressive
"you don't know me for playing grixis, but you do know me for being a baddie" 😂
I played magic for the first time last night with friends. You mentioned subjugate the hobbits. I played it and essential stole every creature on the table. Including a hobbit with a 26/26 token. Wiped two players out in one turn following 😎
Well... in the Food and Fellowship deck upgrade you guys went with a token overrun strategy... instead of using the unique food deck.
Now you choose to do another grixis spellslinger, worst than Anhelo, instead of upgrading SAURON's deck... and remove him from his own deck.
I'm worried about what will come next...
I'm out here living Dangerously
@@LadeeDanger please don't take me wrong, I love you guys! This is not an "internet-hate-comment". Is just, let's say this is not my favourite set review from the team haha
Cycle to reanimate it. Easy to get stuff in the grave. Amazing job in this upgrade.
These are some pretty good cuts. I'm going to try to put all 9 nazzies in the deck and then have the other three decks with the one ring in it for game night.
The queen herself, Ladee!
I have been planning on building this as spell sling with the white hand since it was spoiled. anhelo and goblin bombardment are really good support cards tobtake advantage of your orcs to fauder off for extra value between spells or extra spells.
I really feel like building with the army as the wepon is kinda the trap, building with them as a recursive resource to spend is such a better plan mabey its hard with 10 cards. But when i play my deck the only reason i want a army token bigger then a 4/4 is if im flinging it at someones face because remaking them is so much better then just adding counters and when you can take advantage of the free sacrifice every spell its so good...
'Subjugate the Hobbits' is an interesting one, if your playgroup loves token decks then this is a game-closer (won me the first play), but if not it's a bit too situational with a deck without tonnes of draw power. 'Monstrosity of the lake' on the other hand is actually amazing (especially with Reanimation cards), as it will give you two turns to close the game or give an answer/time for if someone has exploded.
Exactly how I felt about it!
based on the advice on upgrading the deck I have gone fully down the isengard legion route. Lots of amassing armies that get huge buffs from wizard support.
Anyone else feel the missed opportunity from Ladee Danger to say that she went "there and back again" when talking about Hobbiton at the end step?😅
Heh.
I kept Sauron as my commander. With all the mana rocks available if you get them out you won’t have a problem bringing him out early or atleast 2-3 times. Then with each time he comes back you get the army + a creature from graveyard. It’s an 8 cost for 9/9, 5/5 army and something else nasty. Plus it’s SAURON! How can you not play it 😂
Shiny impedes was a pretty solid card when we pinned the pre ons against eachother. My opponent created a 20/20 making unblock-able so then I goaded it which caused me to win the game.
I’m planning on getting this deck, mixing it with my zombies deck, focusing on getting out my goulcaller gisa and amassing the army token really big really fast between orcs and zombies, tapping gisa and turning that army into many zombies that can be given fun things like deathtouch, hexproof and flying. Also switching out the commander for Sauron, the dark lord.
I also changed the default sauron but I replaced it with the sauron with ward sacrifice legendary arifact/creature. With tons of self mill and a little regular mill or everybody mills. Sacrificing the army for damage or more mill. And more reanimation. Put two infinite combos with gravecrawler/phyrex alter (or alter of dementia)/ agent of the iron throne (with some other similar cards) also got worldgorger dragon + reanimation spells like animate dead and my theme was taxes for casting spells so not only does sauron make an army whenever you cast a spell but with rhystic study I can draw and there's a black card I put in (don't know the name think its 3 black black) but whenever an opp cast a spell they either take 5 dmg or discard a card. And im hoping to find some more cards to add for more taxes but that's all I've got so far. So any suggestions for cards that are either red blue or black that say "whenever an opponent cast a spell _______ happens" let me know need some suggestions
That's a fun idea!
I switched it with that Sauron, the Dark Lord as well. I’ve only upgraded it a little bit but the one game I’ve played with it so far was a blast! Exited to keep playing this deck and slowly upgrading as I go!
While I appreciate the upgrade, it bums me that Saruman was chosen, no one buys this precon to play as Saruman, we all want to play as Sauron. It would be much cooler to see this upgrade trying to make Sauron somehow work instead of putting Saruman as the commander (which fells like the easy way out). Kinda flavorless to play as the second big bad guy, a bit dissapointed with the choice, but understandable nonetheless.
Wdym he's bad
@@mrxpibb too expensive, which is why they chose saruman instead of sauron...
@RodrigoNogoceke have you played the deck or against it?
@@mrxpibb yes, I loved the deck and the flavor, still think the set Sauron is better, I just meant that I wanted the video to be about a Sauron upgrade and not Saruman...
@@RodrigoNogoceke I mean, every time i cast him I felt he was worth the price? I mean he isn't the power level of like Koma or Maelstorm but that's fine?
I think the idea is that as long as you can amass orcs, the deck is so diverse you can deal w anything
When they added Maskewood Nexus I was shocked that they didn't mention Vadrik, Astral Archmage! He's also a spell reducer but imagine how big you can make an x spell after storming off with a Vadrik "Army" that progressively increases the discount!
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A job with this channel seems like a really cool spot.
It's interesting that, so far, no precon upgrade has kept the face commander. Looking forward to seeing if the trend continues with the last one!
Interesting, but it's always unsatisfying when you watch the upgrade video for a certain precon and then it's for a totally different commander than you expected. :/
Especially food and fellowship. Frodo and Sam as commanders and going life gain/value theme gets crazy fast
Honestly, I think 50 bucks is too much of a budget, _especially_ since these decks are already a bit more expensive than regular set decks. If I've already spent more than usual on the deck itself, I don't really wanna put another 50 dollars down to get it up to speed, right?
10 dollars was maybe a little tight, but I liked the 30 bucks budgets.
It’s called the hosts of Mordor not the host of Isengard. I agree Saruman is a cool commander and probably more powerful, but if your playing the lord of the rings decks it’s probably because you love lord of the rings not because you want the most power.
Wow they took out Sauron. They took out Sauron. They. Took. Out. Sauron.
It’s funny that they include Lier, as EDHREC just included comments in latest video from Rachel about how this interacts with ward. It would effectively nullify all the ward 2 on your Goblins and Orcs.
I'm thinking the best upgrade budget is $20 to $25. About half of the cost of the average precon cost.
I will make Sauron, The Lord of The Rings, as my commander. My deck will focus on stealing my opponent stuff and making them suffer.
Love the thumbnails I hope ya find someone good
I rebuilt with hosts of Mordor and used Sarumon the White Hand to make a full amass deck.
YESSS! Tell me how it goes.
Subjugate the hobbits was so good! It stole me so many tokens!
Love the bigger budget.
I tossed in ragavan, ameboid changeling, izzet chemist, twinferno, and the 2 drop blue unblockable spell slinger that copys spells from all will be one will be tossing in a dockside eventually
No man may kill Sauron, but this Lady can
Subjugate the hobbits is great with token, monstrosity of the lake, is real good to cycle, and I've gotten the full use of it 5 times, 2 casting it for 5 and paying 5 on etb, 3 cycling it early game and reanimate then 5 on etb
Hoping to provide some constructive feedback here: I'm pretty upset that you didn't go with the face commander for the upgrade. I understand that a 4 MV commander is much easier to get out than 8. But I feel most people buying this deck are doing so to run Sauron. Either because they want the big bad evil guy in their command zone. Or they want to cast it and get that huge effect. It's just very disappointing and I think that sometimes when you don't use the face commander, you aren't factoring in why people are buying the deck.
Basically you're telling them to buy the deck and run the boring sidekick to Sauron. No one wants to be Robin. Everyone wants to be Batman.
Facts!!!!!!!! I buy the Precons for the face commander and Saruman is just a bonus to build another deck out of or to support the Sauron
the warhammer grixis precon also had an alternative commander with a tribal theme (though saruman doesnt require one per se)
Depends on what the job is Jimmy got real passive aggressive when Rachel started. lol
I think that, with Sauron, this could be a control with a reanimate sub theme. Just making a very grind match, making your opponents waste all they resources. Them, in the endgame, you just play this behemoth, putting in the board a 5/5, your most hideous creature from the grave and, of course, a 9/9 with trample. I believe that's why it has so much spot removal and globals
Subjugate the Hobbits is an amazing card. I've played this deck three times and it was a win con twice. But, you combo it. It turns all those pesky lil tokens into your army. Elves, squirrels, goblins, zombies, myrs, etc. Match it up with any pump spell in red, and BOOM!!!!
Yes, it's a late game play. But, that's when you want to use it. Right after someone creates a massive token army.
New to the games, can jin-gitaxes counter what spell you want from your opp or only the first one they use?
Im sorry. I have to go for the flavor wins. Im putting all the Blasphemous acts and huge spells that allow for redictions in casting to make the absolute most giant army possible and then laughing maniacally as it smashes face.
Ok I have a color identity question. A card that has daybkujd and night bound for this example I will use brutal cathar. He is a 2 and 1 white drop no other mana symbols for either side but when it goes to night the back aide is red but no moutain etc.. so does this card identiy as white red or just white? Basically need to know if it is safe to run in a mono white or white and whatever other color just not red deck?
I got this deck and I am a bit upset it works very weirdly out of the box and that everybody is suggesting to change it for the set Sauron is a bit sad XD but it's true after playing it a bit that this deck goes everywhere slightly but nowhere precisely :3
You did well in cutting Sauron honestly. While cool it's such a dread of a cost. I played some games with it at the helm and it was difficult to cast, very difficult. Also though next to nobody did the upgrade with the face commander :(
I think there could be a way to build Sauron to work for sure. I just couldn't manage it with 10 cards :(
@@LadeeDanger nah compare it to tiamat 1 less but all 5 colors so arguably just as difficult to cast and also has an only on cast trigger but also the turn it comes down you immediately become the target if you get even 1 or 2 more turns hell ive sometimes won the turn she drops. A 8 drop commander thats that hard limited should be setting you up *HARD* to be able to win the game with 1 to 2 turns imo like amass 10 and reanimate 2 or 3 creatures and stuff like that shit needs to be going down lol
just changing 10 cards it's impossible, you did the only reasonable choice honestly. plus it needs so many card changed to make it functional that at that point my Olivia deck works much much better to reanimate things and hit hard >:3
Most people probably don't realize how flavorful cutting Sauron out of the Saruman deck actually is. I don't really believe either one of the hosts actually have read the books. lol
Rachel Ladee episode!!!!!!!!!
The baddies have arrived!
I actually won with Subjugate the Hobbits the other day when I was playing against the other LOTR decks because I got all those nice tramply humans Eowyn makes and other small helper creatures from the Hobbit Deck etc.. And you also don't lose the Tokens when your opponents die 😈Loved it 😅 So I think it depends on your playgroup.. If there are Token decks, this card is hilarious :D
Why dont you guys put the updated decklist in the notes????
You took out Sauron?!? 😂 Looks good but not the direction I am going. Also, New Zealand has just joined Norway on my bucket list. If curious, check out the Lofoten Islands in Norway
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im still stunned from the Sauron drop
“Shtats are back on the menu boys” 😂😂😂
It would be great if you could post the upgrade suggestions in the show notes. What about a link to a list on archidekt? 😊
In what space can you actually play the huge creatures and keep Sauron? Commander is so focused on value that the flavor of this 9/9 imposing creature is cut.
Spoiler alart the didn't go with Sauron as the commander fells bad fail =(😢 but the alt commander is very cool and powerful.
Unfortunately, this video feels like you guys took the easy way out. Not everyone plays commander to play the most on curve commander. You had a chance to build around a huge, fun, and fair commander that new players love. You guys constantly talk about homogeneous play and how you would like more distinct deck types and cards. But here's another boring spell slinger deck to anger your friends. I'm hoping you guys will revisit this deck.
I'd just accept my lower odds with this one and keep it factory, or atleast within the set. Using *A* Sauron as commander would be a must, but I like 'Sauron, The Dark Lord' better.
I know this feels so long ago but I built kumena tyrant of orazca because of jimmy playing it and ixalon was one of the first sets i branched out of playing mainly black decks. Thank you guys, been watching since game nights 4 love you and all on the team.