Smaug Deck by ats404

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos strategy centered on Smaug the Impenetrable. Because Smaug has indestructible and creates a Treasure token for every 1 point of noncombat damage it receives, the deck turns traditional drawback burn spells into explosive mana rituals. Dense early ramp and dark rituals accelerate the 7-mana commander onto the battlefield by Turn 4. Once Smaug is deployed, symmetric damage spells such as Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, or Cut Propulsion generate massive piles of 13 to 16 Treasure tokens in a single action. Payoff engines like Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, Agent of the Iron Throne, and Pain for All convert this sudden burst of artifact creation and sacrifice directly into lethal life loss across all three opponents. While the strategy is resilient against creature-based combat and damage wraths, it must navigate a window of vulnerability to exile removal and counterspells.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Barbed Servitor
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Goldlust Triad
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Jasper
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon
  • 1 Xorn