I AM DEATH by MagicMarcilious

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 53

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck is built around Smaug the Impenetrable, leveraging his indestructible body and unique damage-trigger ability to generate explosive bursts of Treasure tokens. The strategy accelerates rapidly using low-cost mana rocks and black/red rituals to cast Smaug on Turn 4 or 5. Once on the battlefield, inexpensive noncombat burn spells like Blasphemous Act, Lightning Bolt, and Pyrohemia trigger Smaug to produce up to thirteen or more Treasures in a single action. These Treasures immediately translate into lethal table-wide damage through aristocrat payoffs such as Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, Reckless Fireweaver, and Mayhem Devil, or fund a massive Exsanguinate. In addition to the commander line, the deck features redundant infinite combos with Blazing Sunsteel and Brash Taunter, as well as Exquisite Blood paired with Sanguine Bond or Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. High-impact card advantage from Bolas's Citadel and The One Ring ensures relentless velocity and strong resilience against disruption.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blazing Sunsteel
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goblin Bombardment
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Havoc Jester
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Insatiable Avarice
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Storm's Wrath
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Temple of the False God
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thran Dynamo
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 War Room