Hosts of Mordor | Precon Upgrade Guide | Cut-Rate Commander | Commander | MTG | EDH 

Hey folks! See below for the complete list of all the Upgrades & Sidegrades & Further Upgrades mentioned in the build and let me know if you agree with my changes, what you would add in instead, and what commanders from the last 3 sets you want to see me cover in future polls! --------------------- Creatures --------------------- Saruman, the White Hand >>> Sheoldred, Whispering One The Mouth of Sauron >>> Jin-Gitaxias, Core Augur Grishnakh, Brash Instigator >>> Archfiend of Depravity Corsairs of Umbar >>> Etali, Primal Storm Troll of Khazad-dum >>> Scourge of Kher Ridges Voracious Fell Beast >>> Pestilence Demon Knollspine Dragon >>> Nezahal, Primal Tide Monstrosity of the Lake >>> Reaper from the Abyss Grima, Saruman's Footman >>> Hoarding Broodlord Goblin Dark-Dwellers >>> Demon of Dark Schemes Merciless Executioner >>> Shard of the Void Dragon Goblin Cratermaker >>> Lord of Change Siege-Gang Commander >>> Infernal Sovereign Guttersnipe >>> Obsessive Stitcher Orcish Siegemaster >>> Archpriest of Shadows --------------------- Instants --------------------- Forbidden Alchemy >>> Big Score Fact or Fiction >>> Unexpected Windfall Treason of Isengard >>> Careful Study Summons of Saruman >>> Frantic Search Lidless Gaze >>> Dihada's Ploy Consider >>> Tainted Indulgence Deep Analysis >>> You find the villains' Lair Bitter Downfall >>> Black Sun's Twilight --------------------- Sorceries --------------------- Fiery Inscription >>> Persist Revenge of the Ravens >>> Stitch Together Boon of the Wish-Giver >>> Victimize Languish >>> Dread Return Decree of Pain >>> Entreat the Dead Subjugate the Hobbits >>> Finale of Eternity Wake the Dragon >>> Cathartic Reunion --------------------- Lands --------------------- Shiny Impetus >>> Dimir Signet In the Darkness Bind Them >>> Rakdos Signet Field of Ruin >>> Izzet Signet --------------------- Sidegrades --------------------- Black Sun's Twilight >>> Ideas Unbound Infernal Sovereign >>> All-Seeing Arbiter Careful Study >>> Exhume --------------------- Further Upgrades --------------------- Lord of Change >>> Rune-Scarred Demon Extract from Darkness >>> Animate Dead Inferno Titan >>> Jin-Gitaxias, Progress Tyrant Archpriest of Shadows >>> Ancient Brass Dragon Blasphemous Act >>> Rise of the Dark Realms Lord of the Nazgul >>> Sheoldred // The True Scriptures Shard of the Void Dragon >>> It That Betrays Pestilence Demon >>> Ancient Copper Dragon

Super happy that Saruman, The White Hand won the poll for the alternate commander deck build. Been playing Saruman as the face commander and trying really hard to upgrade only from the LOTR Set. It's been fun! Difficult, but very enjoyable to see the pod rushing to get rid of the quickly amassing orc army. It really feels like playing as a villain! Would love to see your take on it 😃

Gratz on reaching over 12k subs. I'm sure many more to come due to your quality vids and radio ready narration.

This upgraded deck kicks ass. Took it to Saturday Commander Magic Yesterday and pulled all the big shots out of my graveyard on turn 6

Thank you for this deck. My local store increased the price to 100 usd. So straight buying the deck at 130 did seem so bad since I would add the upgrades to make it a more reanimator style deck, and I had no plans on making the other deck. With would of cost me at least 50 usd more to get to a playable state.

Thanks Graz.

Great additions and a great series of precon upgrades, these are certainly very helpful for those who got the decks. One suggestion I have for a future poll is to have the 3 MOM prerelease promo commanders which everyone got in their prerelease kits (Katilda and Lier, Goro-Goro and Satoru, Slimefoot and Squee). Since anyone who went to the MOM prerelease would have at least one of them it would be nice to have a deck tech for them. (I'm on team Slimefoot and Squee, personally).

Thanks Graz

deck list is amazing :D this commander sold out faster the the partners pre con!

Tom Bombadil will be really cool. Crossing my finger here that you'll do Saruman of Many Colors too

We're live baby yeah

Hey, nice info ❤, new sub.

Lord of the Nazgul brew please 🤟

Loved all upgrades to the LoTR precons. In you opinion, can they equally fight each other after the upgrades?

YESSSS!!!!

I was hoping you'd do Saruman the White Hand. I'm definitely building him as a grixis spellslinger with minor goblin payoffs and sacrifice stuff. I'd been wanting to build Quint Loremaster too so looking forward to that. Niv Mizzet would probably be the most interesting deck tech of the five color commanders. Tom's straightforward and Omanth just oozes competitiveness. Niv has really cool protection and i bet there are cool things to do with dual colored cards.

I love this whole thing, except... I refuse to own or play any Praetors, what would y'all suggest putting in the deck instead of Sheoldred and Jin-Gitaxias?

Whats everyone opinion if ibreplace the commander with Sauron The Dark Lord? And upgrading via LotR cards only lol

Cyclops of Eternal Fury might be a good choice as a redundant Haste enabler in addition to Anger

Hi, can you crete a deck based on ravnica dimir theme commander? I rrally hope to have that

Yay

I'm gonna be honest again, but I think both Forbidden Alchemy shouldn't have been cut from the build. I would have added for sure big score and Unexpected Windfall, but I would have removed something like Finale of Eternity. If the game last as long as you being able to cast a 12 mana spells, it has went horribly wrong . Or maybe maestros charm , for the possibility of removal and putting stuff in the bin Also, I dont know if you are heavy enough on the discard spells, I would have to look more closely at the final list, but Archfiend of Ifnir always has been a massive beater for me

Just bought all the cards with breakdown, now waiting for arrival and crush the enemies without mercy

Lovely Deck Upgrade. I bought this deck and I was wandering if it had more sense to go Sauron or Saruman ahahah In any case I will just upgrade it with LOTR cards so in the meanwhile I will take off some cards to build a Dimir Spellslinger Wraith deck :3 I can't wait for the Nazgul to drop in price a bit as they are suuuuper espensive at the moment

Are you doing a only LOTR cards upgrade?

Kroxa could be cool in this deck 🤔 cuz Mill anyway Tons of cards xD but I also understand that its not the best idea ... but kroxa looks cool

Would breach the multiverse be a good addition

Heyo! Tom bombadil next, please!

Thanks Mate as usual! Do you update decks you brew with new release expansion from time to time? Would love to see you on moxfield. All the bwst Graz!

One does not simply upgrade Hosts of Mordor... or in this case, catch up with said upgrade. Sorry for the lack of my trademark oversized praises, life just had to give me an arrow to the knee! Time to catch up with the other amazing deck tech while waiting for Quint, MY BOIII~ Oh, and hey, we got the alternative commander tech for... Aruman! I mean, Saruman. God, I hope someone catches the reference... as for my vote for this poll, well, Bombadil already got quite the spotlight on Game Knights, Niv-Mizzet is frankly just mid, and Omnath... is a metal as balls BEAST if a card built up over dozens of sets with a Phyrexianization outta nowhere. Yeah, you can see who is getting my vote. Day 679 of waiting for the face reveal... hopefully I did not miss it in a previous vid or something!

Man, this is such a high CMC cost deck. Has me nervous about it’s playability.

Boy did this deck get naaassstyy

bro really put a c'tan shard and a tzeentch daemon in the sauron deck wtf

👁👅👁 ty❤

Why is this narration so annoying??? It too cringy to finish the video