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Sauron, Lord of the Rings

· Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror · Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC)

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Times Brought

165

Decks Running

In Decks

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Decklist Inclusion

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Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Showing 1v1 (duel) data only. 1v1 is a different format from multiplayer Commander, so these numbers are not comparable.

Card text

Sauron, Lord of the Rings

Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror

When you cast this spell, amass Orcs 5, mill five cards, then return a creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. Trample Whenever a commander an opponent controls dies, the Ring tempts you.

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Tales of Middle-earth Commander (LTC) · Mythic · Illustrated by Alex Brock

Final zone distribution

32 instances

3.1%

Library

34.4%

Battlefield

43.8%

Graveyard

3.1%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Sauron, the Dark Lord 65 decks
2 Saruman, the White Hand 4 decks
3 Kess, Dissident Mage 1 decks
4 Maular, the Next Evolution 1 decks
5 Nicol Bolas, the Ravager // Nicol Bolas, the Arisen 1 decks

The "good card" funnel

165 brought · 69 players

Brought to game

165

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 680,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.