Burn baby burn! by user6968022

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck leverages Smaug the Impenetrable as both an indestructible combat threat and a massive Treasure generator. The primary game plan accelerates mana through early artifacts and Treasure spells, deploying Smaug ahead of curve. Once Smaug is on the battlefield, the deck targets him with noncombat damage spells and asymmetric board wipes like Blasphemous Act and Chain Reaction. Because Smaug is indestructible, he survives the damage and produces that many Treasure tokens. These tokens immediately fuel explosive mana pools and trigger artifact-entry and sacrifice payoffs such as Mirkwood Bats, Reckless Fireweaver, and Mayhem Devil. Surplus mana is channeled into lethal multi-target finishers like Crackle with Power or repeated 8-power aerial attacks. Rich single-target removal and targeted redirection spells protect the board state and disrupt opposing commanders, creating a resilient, high-impact midgame engine that swiftly converts self-inflicted burn into overwhelming table-wide lethality.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Breathe Your Last
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Crux of Fate
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
  • 1 Demand Answers
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Eviscerator's Insight
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Explosive Shot
  • 1 Galvanize
  • 1 Goldlust Triad
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hedron Detonator
  • 1 Hero's Downfall
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Improvised Club
  • 1 Infernal Grasp
  • 1 Iroh's Demonstration
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manhole Missile
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Molten Exhale
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Jasper
  • 1 Murder
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Plasma Bolt
  • 1 Playful Shove
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Suspicious Detonation
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thunder Salvo
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Xorn