SMAUG Treasure by Jsoly1994

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos midrange strategy centered on Smaug the Impenetrable. The game plan focuses on ramping toward 7 mana, casting an 8/7 flying, indestructible, haste commander, and deliberately targeting it with red noncombat damage spells to generate massive stockpiles of Treasure tokens. These artifacts fuel explosive turns, enabling win conditions such as Hellkite Tyrant's upkeep trigger, direct burn from Smaug the Magnificent, and death triggers from Mayhem Devil. The deck features extensive creature and artifact removal that doubles as self-triggering fuel for the commander. While the commander provides built-in resilience against damage and destruction sweepers, the deck relies on combat damage and natural card flow rather than fast combo lines. It delivers consistent pressure in casual and mid-power tables through resilient evasive threats, damage doubling, and high-impact board wipes like Blasphemous Act.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Ancestral Anger
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blood for Bones
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Cast Away Doubt
  • 1 Charging Strifeknight
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Cinder Barrens
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cost of Brilliance
  • 1 Curtains' Call
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragon Egg
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Duress
  • 1 Dáin Ironfoot
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Feed the Flames
  • 1 Flameblast Dragon
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Gratuitous Violence
  • 1 Heartfire Immolator
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Heraldic Banner
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Hoarding Dragon
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Impending Doom
  • 1 Involuntary Employment
  • 1 Jaya's Greeting
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Maximum Overdrive
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mica, Reader of Ruins
  • 1 Midnight Snack
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Old Thrush
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Potioner's Trove
  • 1 Prying Blade
  • 1 Ragged Short Spear
  • 1 Rakdos Guildgate
  • 1 Rapacious Dragon
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Rubble Rouser
  • 1 Scorching Dragonfire
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Slaying Fire
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug's Fury
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Carah, the Bold
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 Thorin, Mountain-king
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Tribute to Hunger
  • 1 Unsubtle Mockery