The Hosts of Mordor
Bracket 3Bracket
Power Level
Tipping Point
Game Changers
Why this bracket?
- 1 Game Changer — notion thief. Per WotC framework, any Game Changer forces a Bracket 3 floor minimum.
- 1 Game Changer detected (any = Bracket 3 floor; Bracket 3 allows up to three)
- Borderline verdict — close to B2: Bracket 3 solely on a single Game Changer (Notion Thief) — otherwise plays at Core pace (goldfish ~turn 10), no combo or fast clock
- Engine accuracy: 77.1% exact and 99.5% within one bracket on 1,229 organizer-labeled tournament decklists (engine v389).
How it compares
Against the 4 Tales of Middle-earth Commander decks we analyzed, this is the strongest — power 5.6 versus a set average of 5.1. That is 1.0 above the 174-precon library average of 4.6. Its Tipping Point lands on turn 4, the same as the library median.
How to drop to Bracket 2Removing the 2 floors at Bracket 3 would drop your deck to Bracket 2.
More Tales of Middle-earth Commander decks
- Elven Council — Bracket 2, power 4.9
- Food and Fellowship — Bracket 2, power 4.9
- Riders of Rohan — Bracket 2, power 4.9
Other Bracket 3 precons at a similar power
- Abzan Armor — Bracket 3, power 5.6
- Counterpunch — Bracket 3, power 5.6
- Creative Energy — Bracket 3, power 5.6
- Deep Clue Sea — Bracket 3, power 5.6
- Exit from Exile — Bracket 3, power 5.6
Upgrade this precon
6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Sauron, Lord of the Rings's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.
- Wayfarer's Bauble Ramp $5.61
- Counterspell Interaction $4.28
- Swan Song Interaction $10.69
- Negate Interaction $0.24
- Night's Whisper Card advantage $6.25
- Read the Bones Card advantage $0.30
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Decklist (100 cards)
1 Sauron, Lord of the Rings 1 Saruman, the White Hand 1 Corsairs of Umbar 1 Monstrosity of the Lake 1 Subjugate the Hobbits 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon 1 Orcish Siegemaster 1 Rampaging War Mammoth 1 The Balrog of Moria 1 Gríma, Saruman's Footman 1 In the Darkness Bind Them 1 Lidless Gaze 1 Lord of the Nazgûl 1 Moria Scavenger 1 Summons of Saruman 1 Too Greedily, Too Deep 1 Wake the Dragon 1 Relic of Sauron 1 The Black Gate 1 Decree of Pain 1 Languish 1 Living Death 1 Reanimate 1 Blasphemous Act 1 Goblin Dark-Dwellers 1 Inferno Titan 1 Knollspine Dragon 1 Scourge of the Throne 1 Siege-Gang Commander 1 Treasure Nabber 1 Hostage Taker 1 Notion Thief 1 Choked Estuary 1 Desolate Lighthouse 1 Dragonskull Summit 1 Drowned Catacomb 1 Foreboding Ruins 1 Frostboil Snarl 1 Smoldering Marsh 1 Sulfur Falls 1 Sulfurous Springs 1 Sunken Hollow 1 Underground River 1 Treason of Isengard 1 Bitter Downfall 1 Troll of Khazad-dûm 1 Voracious Fell Beast 1 Fiery Inscription 1 Grishnákh, Brash Instigator 1 Arcane Denial 1 Boon of the Wish-Giver 1 Consider 1 Deep Analysis 1 Fact or Fiction 1 Forbidden Alchemy 1 Feed the Swarm 1 Merciless Executioner 1 Revenge of Ravens 1 Anger 1 Faithless Looting 1 The Mouth of Sauron 1 Goblin Cratermaker 1 Guttersnipe 1 Shiny Impetus 1 Thrill of Possibility 1 Extract from Darkness 1 Arcane Signet 1 Basalt Monolith 1 Commander's Sphere 1 Everflowing Chalice 1 Mind Stone 1 Sol Ring 1 Worn Powerstone 1 Command Tower 1 Crumbling Necropolis 1 Evolving Wilds 1 Field of Ruin 1 Path of Ancestry 1 Rogue's Passage 1 Terramorphic Expanse 3 Island 3 Island 3 Swamp 3 Swamp 4 Mountain 3 Mountain
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