Sauron, the Dark Lord manabase for Commander

The best lands for Commander Sauron, the Dark Lord (4,311 decks on EDHREC), tested over thousands of games: 76 → 76 out of 100. −1 Mountain, +1 Stormcarved Coast. Each candidate manabase played 192 simulated games with this exact list.

Recommended lands

6 Swamp
5 Island
3 Mountain (−1 from the EDHREC average list)
1 Barad-dûr
1 Blood Crypt
1 Choked Estuary
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Foreboding Ruins
1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
1 Mount Doom
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Steam Vents
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Sulfurous Springs
1 Sunken Hollow
1 The Black Gate
1 Underground River
1 Watery Grave
1 Stormcarved Coast (+1 from the EDHREC average list)

The EDHREC average list

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord
1 Anger
1 Corsairs of Umbar
1 Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator
1 Lord of the Nazgûl
1 Mauhúr, Uruk-hai Captain
1 Moria Scavenger
7 Nazgûl
1 Orcish Bowmasters
1 Orcish Siegemaster
1 Saruman, the White Hand
1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings
1 Sauron, the Necromancer
1 The Balrog of Moria
1 The Great Goblin
1 The Mouth of Sauron
1 Warg Rider
1 Witch-king of Angmar
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
1 Arcane Denial
1 Counterspell
1 Dark Ritual
1 Lazotep Plating
1 Orcish Medicine
1 Saruman's Trickery
1 Sauron's Ransom
1 Soothing of Sméagol
1 Swan Song
1 Blasphemous Act
1 Claim the Precious
1 Faithless Looting
1 Feed the Swarm
1 Foray of Orcs
1 Living Death
1 Reanimate
1 Ringsight
1 Summons of Saruman
1 Toxic Deluge
1 Treason of Isengard
1 Victimize
1 Arcane Signet
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Dimir Signet
1 Fellwar Stone
1 Palantír of Orthanc
1 Relic of Sauron
1 Sol Ring
1 Talisman of Creativity
1 Talisman of Dominance
1 Talisman of Indulgence
1 The One Ring
1 Call of the Ring
1 Dreadhorde Invasion
1 Fiery Inscription
1 In the Darkness Bind Them
1 March from the Black Gate
1 One Ring to Rule Them All
1 Barad-dûr
1 Blood Crypt
1 Choked Estuary
1 Command Tower
1 Crumbling Necropolis
1 Dragonskull Summit
1 Drowned Catacomb
1 Exotic Orchard
1 Foreboding Ruins
5 Island
1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
1 Mount Doom
4 Mountain
1 Path of Ancestry
1 Rogue's Passage
1 Smoldering Marsh
1 Steam Vents
1 Sulfur Falls
1 Sulfurous Springs
1 Sunken Hollow
6 Swamp
1 The Black Gate
1 Underground River
1 Watery Grave

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