Smaug the impenetrable by BigZee

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Big-Mana strategy centered on Smaug the Impenetrable. The game plan revolves around using early ramp, card-filtering spells, and rituals to deploy Smaug ahead of curve on Turn 5. Because Smaug possesses flying, indestructible, and haste, it immediately establishes a fast commander damage clock. The deck's primary engine triggers Smaug's ability using noncombat damage spells such as Blasphemous Act, Pyrohemia, and Reckless Blaze to generate massive piles of Treasure tokens. These tokens are then converted into lethal life-drain through aristocrat payoffs including Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, and Mayhem Devil, or used to cast supplementary Dragon threats like Twinflame Tyrant and Drakuseth, Maw of Flames. The deck controls creature-heavy boards with ease while utilizing targeted redirection to defend its key assets.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Alpharael, Stonechosen
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Death to Our Enemies
  • 1 Defile
  • 1 Delete
  • 1 Desert Were-Worm
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doctor Doom
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Dread Return
  • 1 Dreadhorde Butcher
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Extinction Event
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gixian Infiltrator
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 J. Jonah Jameson
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 18 Mountain
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Peter Parker's Camera
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Read the Bones
  • 1 Reckless Blaze
  • 1 Reckless Ransacking
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Seize the Day
  • 1 Shock
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Fire and Ice
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vision of Love
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 World at War