Find Me A Land by jedcollins64

Format: Commander

Commander: Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck leverages Sméagol, Helpful Guide as both a continuous value engine and a combo payoff in the command zone. The primary game plan accelerates into a four-piece landfall loop utilizing Dúnedain Rangers, a free sacrifice outlet like Phyrexian Altar or Altar of Dementia, and a recurring creature such as Bloodghast. By sacrificing the Ring-bearer before stolen lands enter tapped, the deck repeatedly triggers the Ring tempts ability, stripping every land out of opponents' libraries and putting their nonland cards into graveyards. Explosive mana acceleration from cards like Mana Vault, Dark Ritual, and Gaea's Cradle enables rapid deployment around Turn 5. If the combo route faces resistance, the deck falls back on an aggressive Wraith package featuring nine copies of Nazgûl, which quickly grow into massive lethal threats alongside Call of the Ring and Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis. Efficient reanimation tools provide resilience against spot removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Allosaurus Shepherd
• 1 Altar of Dementia
• 1 Amulet of Vigor
• 1 Ancient Greenwarden
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Animate Dead
• 1 Bloodchief Ascension
• 1 Bloodghast
• 1 Bojuka Bog
• 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Cabal Stronghold
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Candelabra of Tawnos
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 Circle of Dreams Druid
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Crop Rotation
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Damnation
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dryad Arbor
• 1 Dúnedain Rangers
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Exhume
• 1 Finale of Devastation
• 4 Forest
• 1 Forsaken Miner
• 1 Gaea's Cradle
• 1 Green Sun's Zenith
• 1 Grim Tutor
• 1 Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun
• 1 Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis
• 1 Icetill Explorer
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Life from the Loam
• 1 Lotus Cobra
• 1 Lotus Field
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Merciless Executioner
• 1 Mesmeric Orb
• 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• 1 Mirkwood
• 1 Nasty End
• 9 Nazgûl
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Noxious Revival
• 1 Opposition Agent
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Palantír of Orthanc
• 1 Phyrexian Altar
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rise of the Witch-king
• 1 Scute Swarm
• 1 Shallow Grave
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
• 1 Snuff Out
• 1 Sol Ring
• 4 Swamp
• 1 The Cabbage Merchant
• 1 The Master of Lake-town
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Shire
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 Tiller Engine
• 1 Tom, Bert, and William
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Twilight Mire
• 1 Unmarked Grave
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Wild Growth
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman
• 1 Withering Boon
• 1 Worldly Tutor
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• 1 Yawgmoth's Will
• 1 Zuran Orb