Treasure of Torment by Idanhasson

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck operates as a damage reflection and treasure-storm engine commanded by Smaug the Impenetrable. The game plan revolves around turning destructive, symmetric damage spells into asymmetric resource windfalls. Because Smaug is an 8/7 creature with flying, haste, and indestructible, board wipes like Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, and Star of Extinction deal massive noncombat damage to Smaug without destroying it, generating 13 to 20 Treasure tokens in a single burst. The deck harnesses this sudden mana surge through lethal aristocrat drain payoffs such as Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, Mayhem Devil, and Nadier's Nightblade, or massive direct damage spells like Exsanguinate. Backup damage reflectors like Brash Taunter and Barbed Servitor provide redundant win conditions, including a two-card infinite combo with Blazing Sunsteel. While vulnerable to exile removal and enchantment-based strategies, the deck boasts resilient indestructible threats, devastating board suppression, and high burst lethality.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Barbed Servitor
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Sunsteel
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corpse Augur
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Galvanize
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Imodane, the Pyrohammer
  • 1 Improvised Club
  • 1 Into the Fire
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Last Laugh
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Magus of the Wheel
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Neheb, Dreadhorde Champion
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Open the Omenpaths
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Profane Tutor
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall