Sandor Deck Guide — Might & Magic The Card Game

Sandor is a Stronghold hero in Might & Magic The Card Game whose hero attacks are Immune to Retaliation. Stronghold is the savage faction of Orcs and Goblins — it wins by attacking relentlessly and turning incoming damage into bigger threats through Enrage.

This guide covers Stronghold's aggressive game plan, the cards a Sandor deck is built around, a sample Orc-aggro list, and how to mulligan for a fast start.

What the tracked data says

Sandor's Playstyle

Stronghold is a brutal aggro faction. Sandor floods the board with cheap Orcs and Goblins, attacks every turn (his own hits ignore retaliation), and uses Enrage so trades make his creatures stronger.

• Curve out with cheap Goblins and Orcs and start attacking immediately.
• Embrace damage — Enrage units grow when hurt, so unfavorable trades often aren't.
• Swing freely — Sandor's Immune to Retaliation hero attacks add safe, repeatable damage.

Key Cards

These cards define a Sandor deck — build around them:

Cost	Card	What it does
6	Acamas, Champion of the Bloodhorn Legendary	Instantly Enrages your characters for an explosive turn.
9	Blackskull Cyclops Epic	Double Attack — a huge closing threat.
6	Black Skull Clan Warlord Epic	Grows whenever the opponent casts a spell.
10	Behemoth Epic	Enrage: gains +3/+3 — snowballs out of removal range.
2	Goblin Mentor	Other friendly Orcs have +1 Attack — a go-wide anthem.

Sample Sandor Deck (Orc Aggro & Enrage)

A solid starting list. Treat copy counts as flexible — tune them with your own results.

Early game (cost 0–2)

Cost	Card	Role
1	Goblin Scout	Ranged body that draws a card
1	Bloodscar Goblin	2/1 — cheap early pressure
2	Goblin Mentor	Buffs your other Orcs
2	Bloodscar Ritualist	Triggers Enrage on demand

Mid game & payoffs

Cost	Card	Role
3	Suicide Goblin Epic	Trades up into bigger threats
5	Bone Ancestor Epic	Death: heals your board to keep attacking
6	Acamas, Champion of the Bloodhorn Legendary	Mass Enrage payoff

Spells & removal

Cost	Card	Role
2	Stone Shield	+2 Health to your hero to enable aggressive attacks

The cards Sandor decks actually run

Taken from 1,339 tracked Sandor decklists. In decks is the share of those lists that included the card, with the raw count in brackets; win rate is how the lists containing it performed, shown only where at least 30 lists ran the card.

Cost	Card	In decks	Win rate
2	Bloodscar Ritualist Common	91.8% (1,229)	58.9%
7	Behemoth Epic	81.1% (1,086)	58.5%
2	Guerilla Master Common	80.7% (1,080)	61.5%
3	Jaguar Warrior Common	79.5% (1,065)	59.4%
5	Warbound Cyclops Common	76.6% (1,026)	58.6%
4	Pao Mauler Common	74.6% (999)	62.2%
4	Matewa, Voice of Thunder Legendary	68.9% (923)	58.8%
8	Blood-Frenzied Wyvern Rare	67.5% (904)	59.1%
4	Bloodmask Shaman Rare	60.4% (809)	58.8%
6	Acamas, Champion of the Bloodhorn Legendary	57.7% (772)	57.6%
1	Goblin Scout Common	55.3% (740)	61.4%
7	Enraged Cyclops Rare	53.7% (719)	57.6%
1	Bloodscar Goblin Common	53.6% (718)	55.6%
2	Goblin Mentor Common	52.5% (703)	60.5%
2	Tactical Shot Common	44.1% (591)	64.1%
7	Raging Smasher Common	43.1% (577)	50.6%
7	Arcane Keeper Epic	41.2% (552)	56.9%
3	Rally Flag Common	41.2% (551)	57.2%

Highest win rate among the commonly-played cards here is Tactical Shot at 64.1%, from the 591 lists that ran it. Inclusion measures what people build, not what wins — where the two columns disagree is usually the interesting part.

Deck archetypes

These are grouped by what the lists actually contain, not by what anyone called them. A group appears here only when several different players have independently built close to the same deck, so what follows describes the deck rather than quoting its owner. Together they cover 45.8% of the 284 distinct Sandor lists on record; the remainder are one-off brews that resemble nothing else.

Mulligan Guide

Sandor wants to act on every early turn. In your opening hand:

• Keep cheap Goblins and Orcs so you curve out and attack on turn 1–2.
• Keep Goblin Mentor — the +1 Attack anthem pushes early damage.
• Redraw top-end like Behemoth and Blackskull Cyclops in the opening hand; they're too slow early.

For the full keep-or-redraw framework, see our Might & Magic The Card Game Mulligan Guide.

Matchups & Tips

Matchup	Games	Win rate
vs Nur	340	65.9%
vs Anastasia	267	50.6%
vs Agrael	235	61.3%
vs Slava	233	60.5%
vs Giovanni	191	52.9%
vs Sandor	184	60.3%

Only matchups with 50 or more tracked games are listed. These are recorded from the Sandor player's side, and because both sides are not equally likely to be running the tracker, a matchup and its mirror image will not add up to 100%.

• Vs control: flood the board and race — use Enrage payoffs to punch through removal before they stabilize.
• Vs aggro: trade with your bodies (Enrage rewards it), then close with Sandor's retaliation-immune hero attacks.
• General: attack with the hero whenever it's safe — Immune to Retaliation makes it free, repeatable damage.

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