Smaug the Impenetrable by maidenkev2

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos combo-burn strategy helmed by Smaug the Impenetrable. Smaug possesses haste, flying, and indestructible, converting any noncombat damage dealt to him into an equal number of untapped Treasure tokens. The deck accelerates through early turns using efficient mana rocks and rituals, deploying Smaug on turn 5. It immediately targets Smaug with high-damage spells like Cut Propulsion, Blasphemous Act, or Star of Extinction to generate 8 to 20 Treasures in a single burst. These Treasures are instantly spent on game-ending finishers like Crackle with Power or Torment of Hailfire, or used to trigger lethal life-loss engines via Mirkwood Bats and Reckless Fireweaver. Additionally, Blazing Sunsteel forms an infinite damage loop with Smaug to close out games on the spot. While reliant on resolving its 7-mana commander, the deck packs high redundancy and explosive same-turn closing power.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Sunsteel
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Last Light of Durin's Day
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Requiem Monolith
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug's Fury
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snowslope Hunter
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Stone-Giant of High Pass
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Lonely Mountain
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon
  • 1 Xorn