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Sauron, the Necromancer
Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror
Menace Whenever Sauron attacks, exile target creature card from your graveyard. Create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of that card, except it's a 3/3 black Wraith with menace. At the beginning of the next end step, exile that token unless Sauron is your Ring-bearer.
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“Reanimate attackers into menacing tokens, growing threats with each swing.”
Midrange
Intermediate
Combat damage, Tokens swarm
Reanimator, Tokens, Sacrifice, Aristocrats
Strategy
Sauron, the Necromancer is a graveyard-powered aggressor that turns your dead creatures into temporary army tokens. Every attack triggers a reanimation effect, letting you exile a creature from your graveyard and create a menacing copy that swings immediately. The deck wants to fill your graveyard with targets early—discard outlets, self-mill, and creature-heavy strategies all work—then use Sauron's attack trigger to weaponize those cards. You'll win through combat damage by generating multiple aggressive bodies each turn.
The Ring-bearer mechanic is the long game: if Sauron becomes your Ring-bearer, those Wraith tokens stay permanently, letting you build a sprawling menace-heavy board. This ties naturally into sacrifice themes and aristocrats strategies, since you can tutor the Ring onto Sauron and then leverage your token army for value. Early game focuses on filling the yard and protecting Sauron; mid-game explodes into a tempo advantage with cheap hasty bodies; late game pivots to locking the board with permanence and sacrifice synergies.
Strategy generated by Tapped Decks AI. Not affiliated with Wizards of the Coast.
Key Synergies
Budget Build
Skip expensive tutors; use budget reanimation like Unearth, Footsteps of the Goryo, and Unmarked Grave instead of pricey black tutors.
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