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Sauron, the Necromancer LTR 0106 · rare

Sauron, the Necromancer · {3}{B}{B} · 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. · Power / toughness: 4/4

Sauron, the Necromancer · {3}{B}{B} · 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. · Power / toughness: 4/4

Price
from $0.465 printings
Win rate
57.3% GIH 15,345 instances · Premier Draft
Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · 17Lands

Game-in-hand win rate, all deck colors. 8,796 wins in 15,345 card-in-hand instances.

15,012 distinct games · 5,397 distinct drafts · games recorded Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023.

17Lands file dated Aug 30, 2023 · 100-instance minimum · 17Lands public data ↗

Draft data

57.3%when drawn (GIH)

+1.7 pp vs 55.6% average · 15,345 instances

Premier Draft · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023 · average from 980,485 games

#83 of 251 nonland cards by win rate · last seen around pick 1.5 on average (10,307 packs).

21 of 38 black cards · 3 of 6 black rare cards.

Taken at pick1.56,336 picks
Makes the deck84.8%6,336 picks with known usage
When played55.6%28,517.2 matchesBenched 54.8%
3,045.8 matches
When drawn57.3%15,345 instances

Pick and maindeck observations: Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023. Played/benched cells use matches when available; the drawn cell uses game instances.

○ Opening hand 54.8% · 5,654 instances
● Drawn later 58.8% · 9,691 instances

In hand 57.3% · 15,345 instances
Unseen in deck 53.4% · 19,191 instances
+3.9 percentage points when drawn

Compared with black cards

Win rate when drawn57.3%15,345 instances21 of 38
Opening hand54.8%5,654 instances21 of 38
Drawn later58.8%9,691 instances17 of 38
In the deck55.3%34,538 instances26 of 38
Without seeing it53.4%19,191 instances33 of 38
Improvement when drawn+3.9 pp15,345 instances / 19,191 instances13 of 38
When benched54.8%3,045.8 matches29 of 38
Makes the deck84.8%6,336 picks with known usage12 of 38
Pick (last seen)1.510,307 packs4 of 38
Taken at1.56,336 picks4 of 38

Ranks require 100 observations for that metric; comparisons are descriptive, not a pick order. Pick ranks put earlier picks first.

Best decks for it

no-splash decks only · card-level in-hand rates · 100 minimum

Black–Red BR60.2%4,072 instancesBlue–Black UB59.0%2,700 instancesBlack–Green BG58.8%908 instancesWhite–Black WB57.1%2,337 instances

Each tick is this card’s all-decks rate (57.3% · 15,345 instances). A high card rate does not prove that splashing it will improve your deck.

Usually played with

Deck co-occurrence; not evidence of synergy.

Dunland Crebain16,448 games with both in the deckUruk-hai Berserker15,659 games with both in the deckThe Torment of Gollum15,535 games with both in the deck
How to read this

Observational, not a causal bonus. Both cards must be in the deck. Drawn means opening hand or normally drawn; each card counts once per game. Game-level approximate intervals do not account for repeated games by the same drafter.

At least 100 games in each of four drawn/not-drawn groups; adjusted for game length and screened by the lower confidence bound. Do not add these points to a card’s win rate.

Where it sits in the set

Above 67% of 251 nonland cards with 100+ instances, in win-rate order.

30% or lowerWin rate94% or higher

17Lands public datasets ↗ · CC BY 4.0 ↗ · Jun 15–Aug 28, 2023

Collect

5 printingsScryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25Pack odds →

Pick a printing for its prices and pull odds.

Prices

LTR 0106 · Regular printingListings ↗
FinishFound inPrice
Nonfoildraft · set · jumpstart · jumpstart-v2$0.46
FoilCollector Booster · draft · set$0.63

Foil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 1,715 packs (0.06%) · 2.1% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a draft · Modeled · About 1 in 86 packs (1.17%) · 34.4% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 645 packs (0.15%) · 4.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a set · Modeled · About 1 in 59 packs (1.68%) · 39.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Foil in a Collector Booster · Modeled · About 1 in 70 packs (1.43%) · 15.9% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart · Modeled · About 1 in 35 packs (2.86%) · 40.7% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

Nonfoil in a jumpstart-v2 · Modeled · About 1 in 38 packs (2.67%) · 38.5% per display · MTGJSON model Oct 25, 2026 · How it’s modeled →

How to pull it

Official rates for the whole category, not this card.

BoosterSlotPer packCategory
Draft BoosterCommon or foil33%Main set and booster-fun foils
Draft BoosterRare or mythic rareRegular cards in this group; no separate share publishedDraft and Set Booster rare printings
Set BoosterTen other Magic cards100%Other Draft and Set Booster printings
Set BoosterGuaranteed rare or mythicRegular cards in this group; no separate share publishedDraft and Set Booster rare printings
Set BoosterGuaranteed traditional foil100%Main set and booster-fun foils
Collector BoosterFoil main-set rare or mythic85.7%Main set · rare

Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR ↗ · Sep 22, 2023

Details & sources

Legal in
Historic · Timeless · Modern · Legacy · Vintage · CommanderLimited eligibility depends on the event and its booster pool.
Illustration
Yongjae Choi, LTR 106 · Scryfall ↗
More like this
Regular printing printings →
Sources
Mike Turian and Adam Styborski · Collecting LOTR · Sep 22, 2023
Scryfall USD, snapshot Oct 25
Comprehensive Rules ↗