Dragons Hoard by user2702321

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug, Wicked Worm

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos midrange strategy focused on Dragons, Treasure generation, and life-drain attrition, led by Smaug, Wicked Worm. The game plan revolves around accelerating early with cost reducers and mana rocks, casting Smaug to capitalize on opponents' artifact counts, and converting spent Treasures into card advantage. The mid-game deploys high-impact flying Dragons like Goldspan Dragon, Ganax, Astral Hunter, and Smaug the Magnificent alongside drain engines like Mirkwood Bats. It pressures life totals through evasive combat and direct burn, with an alternate sudden-win line available via the Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond combo. While the deck possesses explosive mana generation, strong resilience against single-card disruption, and broad redundancy, it remains vulnerable to creature sweepers and lacks stack-based interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Beseech the Queen
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Conjurer's Closet
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Death to Our Enemies
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Forgestoker Dragon
  • 1 Furnace Hellkite
  • 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Gnashing of Teeth
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Hell's Kitchen
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hoarding Dragon
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Kolaghan, the Storm's Fury
  • 1 Last Light of Durin's Day
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Ominous Asylum
  • 1 Pain Distributor
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Plundering Barbarian
  • 1 Purifying Dragon
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Joins Up
  • 1 Rapacious Dragon
  • 1 Red Dragon
  • 1 Reverent Howl
  • 1 Rising of the Day
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Seal of the Guildpact
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug's Fury
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stir Up Trouble
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 The Black Arrow
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Throne of Eldraine
  • 1 Thunderbreak Regent
  • 1 Torbran, Thane of Red Fell
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vampiric Dragon
  • 1 Xorn