Smaug by Slappajanko89

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 23

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Big-Mana and Burn strategy built around Smaug the Impenetrable. The game plan focuses on deploying mana rocks on the early turns to ramp into the seven-mana commander by Turn 6. Because Smaug possesses flying, indestructible, and haste, it attacks immediately for eight commander damage and turns noncombat damage into Treasure tokens. The deck uses damage-based sweepers such as Blasphemous Act, Chain Reaction, and Slagstorm to wipe opposing boards while triggering Smaug to produce massive bursts of mana. This explosion of Treasures fuels damage multipliers like Fiery Emancipation and lethal burn spells like Chandra's Ignition to close out the game. The deck also includes an infinite damage loop between Mayhem Devil and Smaug. While lacking dedicated tutors and countermagic, the deck features dense creature removal, solid mana velocity, and high resilience against destruction, steadily eliminating opponents through flying combat damage and overwhelming table-wide burn.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bad Moon
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Crescendo
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boltwave
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Cathartic Pyre
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Collective Inferno
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Decree of Pain
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fall of Cair Andros
  • 1 Fateful Showdown
  • 1 Feed the Flames
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gimli's Reckless Might
  • 1 Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings
  • 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Hex Magic
  • 1 Howl of the Horde
  • 1 Ifnir Deadlands
  • 1 Isengard Unleashed
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Long-Lost Lances
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mire in Misery
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Myojin of Grim Betrayal
  • 1 Nahiri's Warcrafting
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pinecone Strike
  • 1 Prophetic Prism
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Reckless Ransacking
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Savage Beating
  • 1 Searing Spear
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Slagstorm
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin's Thirst
  • 1 Spiked Corridor // Torture Pit
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Suspended Sentence
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Tweeze
  • 1 Vision of Love
  • 1 Wisecrack
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Withering Torment