the last smaug by user2685192

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos combo-midrange build centered on Smaug the Impenetrable. Because Smaug creates Treasure tokens whenever he takes noncombat damage, the deck turns burn spells into massive mana engines. Spells like Cut Propulsion, Self-Destruct, and Chain Lightning deal heavy damage directly to the indestructible commander, instantly generating dozens of Treasures or initiating loops. These tokens are converted into immediate lethal damage using outlets like Exsanguinate, Reckless Fireweaver, Ingenious Artillerist, and Marionette Apprentice. Dense early acceleration—including Dark Ritual, Sol Ring, and Dragon cost-reducers—ensures Smaug enters the battlefield ahead of schedule on Turn 4. Meanwhile, a suite of free and efficient interaction cards like Deflecting Swat and Deadly Rollick protects the setup from opposing disruption. If the primary plan is stalled, engines like Bolas's Citadel and The One Ring provide reliable backup paths to victory.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Moon
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Myr
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Hellkite Courser
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Jasper
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Requiem Monolith
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rev, Tithe Extractor
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Xorn