How many lands, ramp and draw do Sauron, Lord of the Rings decks run?
Sauron, Lord of the Rings decks run a median of 37 lands and 10.5 ramp cards, across 12 public decks on Moxfield.
Moxfield lists 2 of these 12 Sauron, Lord of the Rings decks as bracket 4. We need at least 8 decks to give a bracket its own column, so they count only in the numbers for all of these decks.
Counted on , from decks collected in July and November 2026.
We counted these 12 decks with the same code EDHTuner runs on your deck. That is a small count, so a median here can sit a card or two away from what a bigger count would show.
Compared with all decks, Sauron, Lord of the Rings decks run more mass disruption (5 against 2) and more lands (37 against 34).
The first number in each row is the median for these decks, and the range after it covers the middle half of them. The last column is the median across all 18,414 decks we counted.
| This commander | All decks | |
|---|---|---|
| Lands | 37 (36-38) | 34 |
| Ramp | 10.5 (10-13) | 11 |
| Card advantage | 7 (7-10) | 9 |
| Targeted disruption | 10 (9-13) | 9 |
| Mass disruption | 5 (4-6) | 2 |
| Protection | 1.5 (1-2) | 2 |
| Decks counted | 12 | 18,414 |
Moxfield lists these decks as bracket 2 (4 decks), bracket 3 (5), bracket 4 (2) and bracket 5 (1).
What bracket is a Sauron, Lord of the Rings deck?
Of the 12 Sauron, Lord of the Rings decks we counted, 8 (67%) need at least bracket 3, and 3 (25%) need at least bracket 4.
Each deck's lowest bracket here comes from Wizards' bracket rules, as EDHTuner's engine reads them from the deck's cards. The engine checks Game Changers, two-card infinite combos from Commander Spellbook, mass land denial and extra-turn cards.
| Lowest bracket | Decks | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Bracket 1 | 4 | 33% |
| Bracket 2 | 0 | 0% |
| Bracket 3 | 5 | 42% |
| Bracket 4 | 3 | 25% |
One deck can meet several of these rules, and its lowest bracket is the highest one any of them asks for.
| What the deck runs | Needs at least | Decks |
|---|---|---|
| More than three Game Changers | Bracket 4 | 3 |
| Mass land denial | Bracket 4 | 0 |
| One to three Game Changers | Bracket 3 | 5 |
| A two-card infinite combo | Bracket 3 | 1 |
| An extra-turn card | Bracket 2 | 0 |
The rules also weigh how early a combo can win and whether extra turns get chained. The cards alone do not show that, so a deck can belong in a higher bracket than the one shown here. On Moxfield, none of these decks has a bracket below the lowest one the rules allow.
Cards Sauron, Lord of the Rings decks run most
These are the nonland cards these 12 decks run most, with how many of them run each one. The last column is the share of the other decks we counted that run the same card, out of those whose colors allow it.
| Card | These decks | Other decks |
|---|---|---|
| Arcane Signet | 12 of 12 | 67% |
| Reanimate | 12 of 12 | 26% |
| Sol Ring | 12 of 12 | 86% |
| Blasphemous Act | 11 of 12 | 28% |
| Living Death | 11 of 12 | 6% |
| Relic of Sauron | 11 of 12 | 6% |
| Anger | 10 of 12 | 5% |
| Arcane Denial | 10 of 12 | 17% |
| Faithless Looting | 10 of 12 | 16% |
| Commander's Sphere | 9 of 12 | 6% |
| Mind Stone | 9 of 12 | 14% |
| Too Greedily, Too Deep | 9 of 12 | under 1% |
| Cavern-Hoard Dragon | 8 of 12 | 2% |
| Everflowing Chalice | 8 of 12 | 5% |
| Extract from Darkness | 8 of 12 | 1% |
| Fact or Fiction | 8 of 12 | 5% |
| Feed the Swarm | 8 of 12 | 15% |
| In the Darkness Bind Them | 8 of 12 | 2% |
| The Balrog of Moria | 8 of 12 | under 1% |
| Thrill of Possibility | 8 of 12 | 7% |
Cards that set these decks apart
These cards are not in the table above. Each one is in at least three in ten of these decks, and the other decks whose colors allow it run it far less often.
| Card | These decks | Other decks |
|---|---|---|
| Treasure Nabber | 8 of 12 | 2% |
| Worn Powerstone | 8 of 12 | 3% |
| Hostage Taker | 7 of 12 | 4% |
| Moria Scavenger | 7 of 12 | under 1% |
| Rampaging War Mammoth | 7 of 12 | under 1% |
| Saruman, the White Hand | 7 of 12 | under 1% |
| Scourge of the Throne | 7 of 12 | 2% |
| Boon of the Wish-Giver | 6 of 12 | under 1% |
| Lord of the Nazgûl | 6 of 12 | under 1% |
| Monstrosity of the Lake | 6 of 12 | under 1% |
Themes EDHTuner finds in these decks
EDHTuner reads each deck's themes from the rules text on its cards, the same way it reads yours. This is how many of the 12 decks it finds each theme in, for the themes it finds in at least a quarter of them. One deck can have several.
| Theme | Decks |
|---|---|
| Graveyard value | 12 of 12 |
| Reanimator | 12 of 12 |
| Amass | 10 of 12 |
| The Ring tempts you | 8 of 12 |
| Spell recursion | 7 of 12 |
| Combat damage | 6 of 12 |
| Theft | 5 of 12 |
| Cycling | 4 of 12 |
Similar commanders
Decks for these commanders have the same colors as these decks, or EDHTuner finds some of the same themes in them. The words after each name say what they share.
- Saruman, the White Hand same colors, Amass, The Ring tempts you, Spell recursion
- Sauron, the Dark Lord same colors, Amass, The Ring tempts you, Reanimator
- Tom Bombadil The Ring tempts you, Theft, Reanimator
- Wilhelt, the Rotcleaver Amass, Spell recursion, Reanimator
- Nicol Bolas same colors, Theft, Graveyard value
- Kraum, Ludevic's Opus and Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools same colors, Theft, Graveyard value
The Commander deck numbers page shows the same rows for each bracket and says what each row counts.
The bracket 3 page shows what all the decks we counted at that bracket run.
The lands page shows how many lands Commander decks run at each bracket, and the bracket checker names the lowest bracket your own deck fits.
Paste your deck into EDHTuner to see its own counts and the numbers it aims for, along with cards to add and cut. The guide to cutting cards shows how it picks them.