smaug by user7123562

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 20

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck focuses on ramping into high-impact threats, culminating in the deployment of its commander, Smaug the Impenetrable. Operating on a battlecruiser curve, the deck spends its early turns deploying mana rocks and establishing incremental group-slug pieces like Spiteful Visions and Stormfist Crusader. On Turn 6, Smaug arrives as an 8/7 flying, indestructible threat with haste, immediately applying heavy commander damage pressure while deterring damage-based sweepers. Sweepers such as Blasphemous Act synergize exceptionally with Smaug, wiping opposing boards while generating 13 Treasure tokens to fuel secondary threats like Kaervek the Merciless and Sepulchral Primordial. The deck controls creature combat using Archfiend of Depravity and Kardur, Doomscourge, while spot removal handles key opposing permanents. Without tutors or infinite combos, the deck secures victory through continuous combat pressure and unavoidable group-wide attrition.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Ambition's Cost
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archfiend of Depravity
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bloodgift Demon
  • 1 Breath of Malfegor
  • 1 Burnished Hart
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cinder Barrens
  • 1 Combustible Gearhulk
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Deadly Tempest
  • 1 Dictate of the Twin Gods
  • 1 Dredge the Mire
  • 1 Explosion of Riches
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geode Rager
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hate Mirage
  • 1 Indulgent Tormentor
  • 1 Kaervek the Merciless
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kazuul, Tyrant of the Cliffs
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magmatic Force
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Molten Slagheap
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nihil Spellbomb
  • 1 Ob Nixilis Reignited
  • 1 Profane Command
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rakshasa Debaser
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reign of the Pit
  • 1 Sangromancer
  • 1 Scythe Specter
  • 1 Sepulchral Primordial
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stensia Bloodhall
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sunbird's Invocation
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Syphon Mind
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Tectonic Giant
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Titan Hunter
  • 1 Unlicensed Disintegration
  • 1 Urborg Volcano
  • 1 Vampire Nighthawk
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wild Ricochet
  • 1 Wildfire Devils
  • 1 Worn Powerstone