Smaug.04 by Upminister1210

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 45

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck leverages Smaug the Impenetrable as an indestructible engine that converts self-inflicted noncombat damage into massive Treasure generation. Early turns focus on establishing mana velocity through low-cost rocks, rituals, and cost-reducers. Once Smaug enters the battlefield, mass damage spells such as Blasphemous Act, Cut Propulsion, Pestilence, and Pyrohemia deal heavy damage to Smaug without destroying him, yielding 8 to 16 or more Treasure tokens in a single action. The resulting Treasures immediately trigger aristocrat drain effects from creatures like Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, Mayhem Devil, and Reckless Fireweaver, or fuel massive Exsanguinate and Comet Storm finishers to eliminate the entire table on the same turn. If the commander is answered, a dense suite of secondary Dragons—including Goldspan Dragon, Cavern-Hoard Dragon, and Hellkite Tyrant—provides resilient alternate win conditions.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basalt Monolith
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blazing Sunsteel
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Petition
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Generator Servant
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon
  • 1 Xorn