Gold sickness by TheGmanSniper

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug, Wicked Worm

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Treasure Midrange strategy commanded by Smaug, Wicked Worm. The game plan revolves around generating large stockpiles of Treasure tokens from opposing artifacts and internal token producers, then leveraging Smaug to draw cards whenever Treasure mana is spent. As the card advantage engine compounds, the deck transitions into lethal payoffs. Win conditions include the instant-win upkeep trigger of Hellkite Tyrant, the infinite life-drain loop of Exquisite Blood combined with Sanguine Bond, or an overwhelming assault powered by Depthshaker Titan and Mirkwood Bats. The deck backs up its engine with solid creature removal and board wipes like Blood Money and Blasphemous Act. While vulnerable to mass artifact removal and lacking high-density stack countermagic, its high card velocity and resilient reanimation package allow it to rebuild rapidly and close games by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Money
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bonders' Enclave
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Collective Brutality
  • 1 Cover of Darkness
  • 1 Coveted Prize
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Depthshaker Titan
  • 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
  • 1 Display of Power
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Enchanter's Bane
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Gemcutter Buccaneer
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Killmonger, Ruthless Usurper
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Magmatic Galleon
  • 1 Marching Duodrone
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirage Phalanx
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nowhere to Run
  • 1 Obsidian Charmaw
  • 1 Pact of the Serpent
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raphael, Tough Turtle
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Relic Robber
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sidequest: Hunt the Mark // Yiazmat, Ultimate Mark
  • 1 Silverclad Ferocidons
  • 1 Skullcrack
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stitch Together
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Gold Saucer
  • 1 The Lord of Pain
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Treasure Chest
  • 1 Treasure Map // Treasure Cove
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Vincent Valentine // Galian Beast
  • 1 Wyll's Reversal
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Yuffie, Materia Hunter
  • 1 Zenos yae Galvus // Shinryu, Transcendent Rival