Sauron, the Necromancer
- Mana cost
- {3}{B}{B}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Avatar Horror
- Power / toughness
- 4 / 4
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #802 (rare)
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.
Sauron, the Necromancer has 5 printings, first in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (2023). EDHREC ranks it #5,827 among Commander cards. It appears most in Sauron, the Dark Lord decks (13,211 on EDHREC). It has 5 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Sauron, the Necromancer most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Sauron, the Dark Lord: 13,211 decks
- Lord of the Nazgûl: 4,961 decks
- Sauron, Lord of the Rings: 1,037 decks
- Frodo, Sauron's Bane: 932 decks
- Witch-king, Sky Scourge: 598 decks
- Witch-king of Angmar: 503 decks
- The Master, Multiplied: 380 decks
- Sauron, the Lidless Eye: 100 decks
Often played with Sauron, the Necromancer
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : 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.
- : If the exiled card has {X} in its mana cost, X is 0.
- : 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.
- : 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.
- : 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.