New Untitled Deck by user3858480

Format: Commander

Commander: Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This Golgari deck harnesses Sméagol, Helpful Guide to transform aristocrat sacrifice triggers and Ring tempt effects into continuous land theft and mill. Built around a core of nine Nazgûl, the deck reliably triggers the Ring while growing a formidable combat force of deathtouch threats. Early turns focus on establishing death triggers through recurring creatures like Bloodghast and Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, which allow Sméagol to ramp lands straight from opponents' libraries into play tapped. As mana swells, the deck transitions into powerful landfall payoffs such as Scute Swarm, Rampaging Baloths, and Avenger of Zendikar, or drains the table through Syr Konrad, the Grim and Ob Nixilis, the Fallen. Strong card advantage from The One Ring, Skullclamp, and Morbid Opportunist ensures constant momentum. Efficient removal spells keep opponents in check while big mana finishers like Torment of Hailfire and Rise of the Dark Realms close out games cleanly.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Edict
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dúnedain Rangers
  • 1 Earthbender Ascension
  • 1 Evolutionary Leap
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Surrak and Goreclaw
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ring Goes South
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wastewood Verge
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Yawgmoth, Thran Physician