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.
4 / 4
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR #106)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 5
- Released
- 2023-06-23
- Artist
- Yongjae Choi
- EDHREC rank
- #5,780
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil, Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Nazgûl
- Call of the Ring
- Witch-king of Angmar
- Claim the Precious
- Sam's Desperate Rescue
- Gollum, Patient Plotter
- One Ring to Rule Them All
- Ringwraiths
- Inherited Envelope
- Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
- Uruk-hai Berserker
- Barad-dûr
- Buried Alive
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Palantír of Orthanc
- Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
- Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
- The Black Breath
- Vile Entomber
- Nasty End
- Archon of Cruelty
- Voracious Fell Beast
- Gollum's Bite
- Sepulchral Primordial
- Massacre Wurm
- Archpriest of Shadows
- The Black Gate
- The One Ring
- Noxious Gearhulk
- Ripples of Undeath
- Troll of Khazad-dûm
- Orcish Medicine
- Entomb
- Fell Beast of Mordor
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Mirkwood Bats
- Undead Butler
- Nazgûl Battle-Mace
- Ravenous Chupacabra
- Orcish Bowmasters
- Shadow of the Enemy
- Mithril Coat
- Millikin
- Rogue's Passage
- Victimize
- Reanimate
- Isildur's Fateful Strike
- Living Death
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Lash of the Balrog
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Swamp
- Call of the Ring
- Nazgûl
- Sol Ring
- Witch-king of Angmar
- Claim the Precious
- Sam's Desperate Rescue
- Arcane Signet
- Gray Merchant of Asphodel
- Dark Ritual
- Gollum, Patient Plotter
- One Ring to Rule Them All
- Jet Medallion
- Ringwraiths
- Reanimate
- Feed the Swarm
- Buried Alive
- Inherited Envelope
- Cabal Coffers
- Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
- Massacre Wurm
- Swiftfoot Boots
- Stitcher's Supplier
- Bojuka Bog
- Barad-dûr
- Victimize
- Crypt Ghast
- Uruk-hai Berserker
- Vile Entomber
- Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
- Lightning Greaves
- Palantír of Orthanc
- Syr Konrad, the Grim
- Archon of Cruelty
- Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant
- The Black Breath
- Nasty End
- The One Ring
- Phyrexian Arena
- Rogue's Passage
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Entomb
- Noxious Gearhulk
- Toxic Deluge
- Sepulchral Primordial
- Orcish Bowmasters
- The Black Gate
- Voracious Fell Beast
- Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
- Ripples of Undeath
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-06-16
If the card copied by the token had any "when [this permanent] enters the battlefield" abilities, then the token also has those abilities and will trigger them when it's created. Similarly, any "as [this permanent] enters the battlefield" or "[this permanent] enters the battlefield with" abilities that the token has copied will also work.
- 2023-06-16
If the exiled card has
in its mana cost, X is 0. - 2023-06-16
The delayed triggered ability will exile the token at the beginning of your next end step unless Sauron, the Necromancer is your Ring-bearer at the time that the ability resolves. If Sauron, the Necromancer leaves the battlefield before the delayed triggered ability resolves, that ability will exile the token, even if Sauron, the Necromancer later returns to the battlefield or you control another copy of Sauron, the Necromancer as your Ring-bearer.
- 2023-06-16
The token copies exactly what was printed on the original card and nothing else, except the characteristics it specifically modifies. It doesn't copy any information about the object the card was before it was put into your graveyard.
- 2023-06-16
The token is a Wraith instead of its other creature types (and other subtypes if it has any) and is black instead of its other colors. Its base power and toughness are 3/3. These are copiable values of the token that other effects may copy.