Smaug boy by user7265606

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Rakdos burn-combo engine built around Smaug the Impenetrable. By utilizing dense fast mana, rituals, and cost-reducers, the deck accelerates into its seven-mana commander on Turn 4. Because Smaug is inherently indestructible, mass noncombat damage spells such as Blasphemous Act, Cut Propulsion, Chain Reaction, and Fire Covenant deal massive damage to Smaug without destroying him, instantly producing between 8 and 16+ Treasure tokens. The deck converts this immediate flood of artifacts and mana into a same-turn win through token-entry and sacrifice drain triggers like Mirkwood Bats, Reckless Fireweaver, and Marionette Apprentice, or massive X-cost finishers including Torment of Hailfire and Crackle with Power. If the primary commander line is contested, the deck seamlessly transitions into an independent two-card infinite damage combo with Blazing Sunsteel and Brash Taunter or tutors key pieces directly with Magda, Brazen Outlaw.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Sunsteel
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Havoc Jester
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 18 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Requiem Monolith
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Xorn