New Untitled Deck by user3504544

Format: Commander

Commander: Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Golgari deck is led by Sméagol, Helpful Guide and combines traditional Aristocrats sacrifice synergies with Landfall triggers. The primary strategy revolves around establishing a creature sacrifice engine to trigger the Ring tempting mechanic. When combined with Dúnedain Rangers, a free sacrifice outlet, and Bloodghast, Sméagol creates an infinite loop that puts every land from all opponents' libraries onto your battlefield tapped while milling their entire decks into their graveyards. Paired with blood-artist style drain creatures like Syr Konrad, the Grim or Mirkwood Bats, this loop kills the entire table on Turn 5. Beyond the combo, the deck exerts heavy board control using Grave Pact, Dictate of Erebos, and Tergrid, God of Fright to repeatedly clear opposing creatures and steal resources. While the deck possesses explosive acceleration, resilient graveyard recursion, and versatile permanent removal, its reliance on creature-based setup and lack of countermagic make it vulnerable to well-timed instant removal and graveyard hate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrupt Decay
  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bayou
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bottomless Pit
  • 1 Burgeoning
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dictate of Erebos
  • 1 Dreadhorde Invasion
  • 1 Dúnedain Rangers
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Massacre Wurm
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Pawn of Ulamog
  • 1 Phyrexian Altar
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Priest of Forgotten Gods
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Tergrid, God of Fright // Tergrid's Lantern
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Triumph of the Hordes
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat