Smaug The Impenetrable by Fitch123

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos treasure-ramp strategy helmed by Smaug the Impenetrable, aiming to turn the commander's indestructibility and haste into a self-damage engine. The primary plan involves casting Smaug early, then repeatedly pinging it with effects like Pestilence and Crypt Rats to create an avalanche of Treasure tokens. Those treasures fuel game-ending plays: the infinite life-drain loop of Exquisite Blood + Bloodthirsty Conqueror, a massive Gray Merchant of Asphodel devotion drain, overwhelming combat from dragons like Ancient Copper Dragon or Goldspan Dragon, or the alternate win condition of Knuckles the Echidna with thirty artifacts. The deck leans heavily on its commander as both a mana generator and a combo enabler, while redundancy in treasure production and pinging effects keeps the engine running even when the search suite is sparse.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Absorb into Time
• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Alicia Masters, Skilled Sculptor
• 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Badlands
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
• 1 Brash Taunter
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
• 1 Cranial Plating
• 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
• 1 Crime Novelist
• 1 Crypt Rats
• 1 Cursed Mirror
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Dragon's Desire
• 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
• 1 Etali, Primal Storm
• 1 Exquisite Blood
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
• 1 Grim Hireling
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Knuckles the Echidna
• 1 Koskun Falls
• 1 Last Laugh
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mana Geyser
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Mox Opal
• 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
• 1 Ojer Axonil, Deepest Might // Temple of Power
• 1 Pestilence
• 1 Pestilence Demon
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Pyrohemia
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Rowan, Scion of War
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
• 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 11 Snow-Covered Mountain
• 10 Snow-Covered Swamp
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solemn Simulacrum
• 1 Supper for Spiders
• 1 Swiftfoot Boots
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Reaver Cleaver
• 1 Thrill of Possibility
• 1 Tibalt's Trickery
• 1 Tokka & Rahzar, Terrible Twos
• 1 Treasure Nabber
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
• 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
• 1 Wheel of Fortune
• 1 Winds of Change
• 1 Withering Wisps
• 1 Wrathful Red Dragon
• 1 Xorn
• 1 Yawgmoth's Will