Sauron, the Dark Lord

Ward—Sacrifice a legendary artifact or legendary creature.
Whenever an opponent casts a spell, amass Orcs 1.
Whenever an Army you control deals combat damage to a player, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, you may discard your hand. If you do, draw four cards.

Abyssal Persecutor

Flying, trample
You can't win the game and your opponents can't lose the game.

Ash Barrens

{T}: Add {C}.
Basic landcycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Barad-dûr

Barad-dûr enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature.
{T}: Add {B}.
{X}{X}{B}, {T}: Amass Orcs X. Activate only if a creature died this turn.

Bewitching Leechcraft

Enchant creature
When Bewitching Leechcraft enters, tap enchanted creature.
Enchanted creature has "If this creature would untap during your untap step, remove a +1/+1 counter from it instead. If you do, untap it." (Otherwise, it doesn't untap.)

Bitter Downfall

This spell costs {3} less to cast if it targets a creature that was dealt damage this turn.
Destroy target creature. Its controller loses 2 life.

Blasphemous Act

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each creature on the battlefield.
Blasphemous Act deals 13 damage to each creature.

Bojuka Bog

Bojuka Bog enters tapped.
When Bojuka Bog enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.

Breaking of the Fellowship

Target creature an opponent controls deals damage equal to its power to another target creature that player controls. The Ring tempts you.

Cabal Coffers

{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.

Call of the Ring

At the beginning of your upkeep, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer, you may pay 2 life. If you do, draw a card.

Claim the Precious

Destroy target creature. The Ring tempts you.

Corsairs of Umbar

{2}{U}: Target Goblin, Orc, or Pirate can't be blocked this turn.
Whenever Corsairs of Umbar deals combat damage to a player, amass Orcs 3. (Put three +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Crypt Incursion

Exile all creature cards from target player's graveyard. You gain 3 life for each card exiled this way.

Decree of Pain

Destroy all creatures. They can't be regenerated. Draw a card for each creature destroyed this way.
Cycling {3}{B}{B} ({3}{B}{B}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Decree of Pain, all creatures get -2/-2 until end of turn.

Diabolic Intent

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.

Earthquake

Earthquake deals X damage to each creature without flying and each player.

Anger

Haste
As long as Anger is in your graveyard and you control a Mountain, creatures you control have haste.

Boon of the Wish-Giver

Draw four cards.
Cycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Cirith Ungol Patrol

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice another creature: Draw a card, then create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Deep Analysis

Target player draws two cards.
Flashback—{1}{U}, Pay 3 life. (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Basalt Monolith

Basalt Monolith doesn't untap during your untap step.
{T}: Add {C}{C}{C}.
{3}: Untap Basalt Monolith.

Chromatic Lantern

Lands you control have "{T}: Add one mana of any color."
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Commander's Sphere

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.
Sacrifice Commander's Sphere: Draw a card.

Easterling Vanguard

When Easterling Vanguard dies, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Ensnaring Bridge

Creatures with power greater than the number of cards in your hand can't attack.

Fact or Fiction

Reveal the top five cards of your library. An opponent separates those cards into two piles. Put one pile into your hand and the other into your graveyard.

Faithless Looting

Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback {2}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Extract from Darkness

Each player mills two cards. Then you put a creature card from a graveyard onto the battlefield under your control.

Fall of Cair Andros

Whenever a creature an opponent controls is dealt excess noncombat damage, amass Orcs X, where X is that excess damage. (Put X +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
{7}{R}: Fall of Cair Andros deals 7 damage to target creature.

Feed the Swarm

Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.

Fell Beast of Mordor

Flying
Devour 1 (As this enters, you may sacrifice any number of creatures. This creature enters with that many +1/+1 counters on it.)
Whenever Fell Beast of Mordor enters or attacks, target opponent loses X life and you gain X life, where X is the number of +1/+1 counters on it.

Fell Beast's Shriek

Each opponent chooses a creature they control. Tap and goad the chosen creatures. (Until your next turn, those creatures attack each combat if able and attack a player other than you if able.)
Splice onto instant or sorcery {2}{U}{R} (As you cast an instant or sorcery spell, you may reveal this card from your hand and pay its splice cost. If you do, add this card's effects to that spell.)

Fires of Mount Doom

When Fires of Mount Doom enters, it deals 2 damage to target creature an opponent controls. Destroy all Equipment attached to that creature.
{2}{R}: Exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn. When you play a card this way, Fires of Mount Doom deals 2 damage to each player.

Foray of Orcs

Amass Orcs 2. When you do, Foray of Orcs deals X damage to target creature an opponent controls, where X is the amassed Army's power. (To amass Orcs 2, put two +1/+1 counters on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Glorious Gale

Counter target creature spell. If it was a legendary spell, the Ring tempts you.

Goblin Assailant

Goblin Dark-Dwellers

Menace
When Goblin Dark-Dwellers enters, you may cast target instant or sorcery card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard without paying its mana cost. If that spell would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.

Go for the Throat

Gollum, Patient Plotter

When Gollum, Patient Plotter leaves the battlefield, the Ring tempts you.
{B}, Sacrifice a creature: Return Gollum from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only as a sorcery.

Gollum's Bite

Target creature gets -2/-2 until end of turn.
{3}{B}, Exile Gollum's Bite from your graveyard: The Ring tempts you. Activate only as a sorcery.

Gorbag of Minas Morgul

Whenever a Goblin or Orc you control deals combat damage to a player, you may sacrifice it. When you do, choose one —
• Draw a card.
• Create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color.")

Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant

When Gothmog, Morgul Lieutenant enters, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)
Creature tokens you control have deathtouch.

Gríma Wormtongue

Your opponents can't gain life.
{T}, Sacrifice another creature: Target player loses 1 life. If the sacrificed creature was legendary, amass Orcs 2.

Grishnákh, Brash Instigator

When Grishnákh, Brash Instigator enters, amass Orcs 2. When you do, until end of turn, gain control of target nonlegendary creature an opponent controls with power less than or equal to the amassed Army's power. Untap that creature. It gains haste until end of turn.

Hostage Taker

When Hostage Taker enters, exile another target creature or artifact until Hostage Taker leaves the battlefield. You may cast that card for as long as it remains exiled, and mana of any type can be spent to cast that spell.

Inferno Titan

{R}: Inferno Titan gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
Whenever Inferno Titan enters or attacks, it deals 3 damage divided as you choose among one, two, or three targets.

In the Darkness Bind Them

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after IV.)
I, II, III — Create a 3/3 black Wraith creature token with menace. The Ring tempts you.
IV — For each opponent, gain control of up to one target creature that player controls until end of turn. Untap those creatures. They gain haste until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Isildur's Fateful Strike

(You may cast a legendary instant only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.)
Destroy target creature. If its controller has more than four cards in hand, they exile cards from their hand equal to the difference.

Island

Languish

All creatures get -4/-4 until end of turn.

Lash of the Balrog

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature or pay {4}.
Destroy target creature.

Lord of the Nazgûl

Flying
Wraiths you control have protection from Ring-bearers.
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create a 3/3 black Wraith creature token with menace. Then if you control nine or more Wraiths, Wraiths you control have base power and toughness 9/9 until end of turn.

March from the Black Gate

When March from the Black Gate enters and whenever an Army you control attacks, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Merciless Executioner

When Merciless Executioner enters, each player sacrifices a creature.

Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress

Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{3}{B}, {T}: Put a shadow counter on target creature. For as long as that creature has a shadow counter on it, it's a Wraith in addition to its other types. (A creature with shadow can block or be blocked by only creatures with shadow.)

Mirkwood Bats

Flying
Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

Mordor on the March

Exile a creature card from your graveyard. Create a token that's a copy of it. It gains haste until end of turn. Exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
Storm (When you cast this spell, copy it for each spell cast before it this turn.)

Mordor Trebuchet

Defender
Whenever you attack with one or more Goblins and/or Orcs, create a 2/1 colorless Construct artifact creature token with flying named Ballistic Boulder that's tapped and attacking. Sacrifice that token at end of combat.

Morgul-Knife Wound

Enchant creature
Enchanted creature gets -3/-0 and has "At the beginning of your upkeep, exile this creature unless you pay 2 life."

Moria Marauder

Double strike
Whenever a Goblin or Orc you control deals combat damage to a player, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.

Mountain

Mount Doom

{T}, Pay 1 life: Add {B} or {R}.
{1}{B}{R}, {T}: Mount Doom deals 1 damage to each opponent.
{5}{B}{R}, {T}, Sacrifice Mount Doom and a legendary artifact: Choose up to two creatures, then destroy the rest. Activate only as a sorcery.

Nazgûl

Deathtouch
When Nazgûl enters, the Ring tempts you.
Whenever the Ring tempts you, put a +1/+1 counter on each Wraith you control.
A deck can have up to nine cards named Nazgûl.

Nazgûl Battle-Mace

Equipped creature has menace, deathtouch, annihilator 1, and "Whenever an opponent sacrifices a nontoken permanent, put that card onto the battlefield under your control unless that player pays 3 life." (Whenever a creature with annihilator 1 attacks, defending player sacrifices a permanent.)
Equip {3}

Knollspine Dragon

Flying
When Knollspine Dragon enters, you may discard your hand and draw cards equal to the damage dealt to target opponent this turn.

Lidless Gaze

Exile the top card of each player's library. Until the end of your next turn, you may play those cards, and mana of any type can be spent to cast those spells.
Flashback {2}{B}{R} (You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)

Mordor Muster

You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Moria Scavenger

Deathtouch, haste
{T}, Discard a card: Draw a card. If the discarded card was a creature card, amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Night's Whisper

Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}.
{1}, {T}, Sacrifice Mind Stone: Draw a card.

Oliphaunt

Trample
Whenever Oliphaunt attacks, another target creature you control gets +2/+0 and gains trample until end of turn.
Mountaincycling {1} ({1}, Discard this card: Search your library for a Mountain card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.)

Haunt of the Dead Marshes

When Haunt of the Dead Marshes enters, scry 1.
{2}{B}: Return Haunt of the Dead Marshes from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped. Activate only if you control a legendary creature.

Living Death

Each player exiles all creature cards from their graveyard, then sacrifices all creatures they control, then puts all cards they exiled this way onto the battlefield.

Olog-hai Crusher

Trample
Olog-hai Crusher can't block unless you control a Goblin or Orc.

One Ring to Rule Them All

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.)
I — The Ring tempts you, then each player mills cards equal to your Ring-bearer's power.
II — Destroy all nonlegendary creatures.
III — Each opponent loses 1 life for each creature card in that player's graveyard.

Orcish Bowmasters

Flash
When Orcish Bowmasters enters and whenever an opponent draws a card except the first one they draw in each of their draw steps, Orcish Bowmasters deals 1 damage to any target. Then amass Orcs 1.

Orcish Medicine

Target creature gains your choice of lifelink or indestructible until end of turn.
Amass Orcs 1. (Put a +1/+1 counter on an Army you control. It's also an Orc. If you don't control an Army, create a 0/0 black Orc Army creature token first.)

Path of Ancestry

Path of Ancestry enters tapped.
{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity. When that mana is spent to cast a creature spell that shares a creature type with your commander, scry 1. (Look at the top card of your library. You may put that card on the bottom.)

Phial of Galadriel

If you would draw a card while you have no cards in hand, draw two cards instead.
If you would gain life while you have 5 or less life, you gain twice that much life instead.
{T}: Add one mana of any color.

Rampaging War Mammoth

Trample
Cycling {X}{2}{R} ({X}{2}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle Rampaging War Mammoth, destroy up to X target artifacts.

Relic of Sauron

{T}: Add two mana in any combination of {U}, {B}, and/or {R}.
{3}, {T}: Draw two cards, then discard a card.

Orcish Siegemaster

Trample
Other Orcs and Goblins you control have trample.
Whenever Orcish Siegemaster attacks, it gets +X/+0 until end of turn, where X is the greatest power among creatures you control.

Revenge of Ravens

Whenever a creature attacks you or a planeswalker you control, that creature's controller loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.

Ringsight

The Ring tempts you. Search your library for a card that shares a color with a legendary creature you control, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Ringwraiths

When Ringwraiths enters, target creature an opponent controls gets -3/-3 until end of turn. If that creature is legendary, its controller loses 3 life.
When the Ring tempts you, return Ringwraiths from your graveyard to your hand.

Sauron, the Lidless Eye

When Sauron, the Lidless Eye enters, gain control of target creature an opponent controls until end of turn. Untap it. It gains haste until end of turn.
{1}{B}{R}: Creatures you control get +2/+0 until end of turn. Each opponent loses 2 life.

Scourge of the Throne

Flying
Dethrone (Whenever this creature attacks the player with the most life or tied for most life, put a +1/+1 counter on it.)
Whenever Scourge of the Throne attacks for the first time each turn, if it's attacking the player with the most life or tied for most life, untap all attacking creatures. After this phase, there is an additional combat phase.

Shadowspear

Equipped creature gets +1/+1 and has trample and lifelink.
{1}: Permanents your opponents control lose hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.
Equip {2}

Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep

{T}: Add {R}.
{R}, {T}: Target legendary creature gains first strike until end of turn.

Siege-Gang Commander

When Siege-Gang Commander enters, create three 1/1 red Goblin creature tokens.
{1}{R}, Sacrifice a Goblin: Siege-Gang Commander deals 2 damage to any target.

Soothing of Sméagol

Return target nontoken creature to its owner's hand. The Ring tempts you.

Swamp

The Balrog, Durin's Bane

This spell costs {1} less to cast for each permanent sacrificed this turn.
Haste
The Balrog, Durin's Bane can't be blocked except by legendary creatures.
When The Balrog dies, destroy target artifact or creature an opponent controls.

The Balrog, Flame of Udûn

Trample
When a legendary creature an opponent controls dies, put The Balrog, Flame of Udûn on the bottom of its owner's library.

The Balrog of Moria

Trample, haste
When The Balrog of Moria dies, you may exile it. When you do, for each opponent, exile up to one target creature that player controls.
Cycling {3}{R} ({3}{R}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)
When you cycle The Balrog of Moria, create two Treasure tokens.

The Black Breath

Creatures your opponents control get -1/-1 until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

The Black Gate

As The Black Gate enters, you may pay 3 life. If you don't, it enters tapped.
{T}: Add {B}.
{1}{B}, {T}: Choose a player with the most life or tied for most life. Target creature can't be blocked by creatures that player controls this turn.

The Grey Havens

When The Grey Havens enters, scry 1.
{T}: Add {C}.
{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creature cards in your graveyard.

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