Smaug the Inevitable by TheGreatDak

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck is an explosive spite-damage and big-mana combo strategy commanded by Smaug the Impenetrable. Smaug combines an 8/7 flying, indestructible, and hasty body with an ability that generates Treasure tokens equal to any noncombat damage dealt to it. The deck weaponizes symmetrical board wipes like Blasphemous Act and Star of Extinction, as well as targeted self-harm spells like Cut Propulsion and Self-Destruct, turning damage into 8 to 20+ untapped Treasures in a single blow. These massive resource bursts immediately translate into lethal same-turn finishes through outlets such as Crackle with Power, Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Master, or the infinite damage loop of Blazing Sunsteel. Indestructibility makes Smaug virtually immune to traditional wipe effects, allowing the deck to clear opposing boards while generating game-winning mana reserves.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blazing Sunsteel
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedited Inheritance
  • 1 Exploding Barrel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Forbidden Orchard
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Ghostfire Slice
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Inferno of the Star Mounts
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Lightning Axe
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Monumental Corruption
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Pitiless Carnage
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Reckless Endeavor
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Requiem Monolith
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rocky Tar Pit
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 The Lonely Mountain
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Zenith Festival