Sméagol :) by user3266360

Format: Commander

Commander: Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 36

Deck overview

This Golgari deck leverages Sméagol, Helpful Guide alongside the maximum allowance of nine Nazgûl to merge Ring-tempting synergies with traditional aristocrats attrition and big-mana payoffs. In the early game, low-cost sacrifice fodder and utility creatures establish a baseline engine that activates Sméagol on Turn 4. Once operational, every creature death triggers the Ring tempting you, stealing opponents' lands while milling their libraries. This land acceleration feeds mid-game power spikes including Grave Pact board locks, Syr Konrad, the Grim damage triggers, and growing Wraith combat pressure. The deck finishes games on Turn 7 through lethal evasive combat, mass graveyard theft with Rise of the Dark Realms, or a massive Torment of Hailfire fueled by Cabal Coffers and stolen lands. Supporting card draw from The One Ring and Skullclamp keeps hand resources high, while spot removal and protection spells defend the core engine against single-target interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Awakening Zone
  • 1 Barad-dûr
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bombadil's Song
  • 1 Breach the Multiverse
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compy Swarm
  • 1 Crop Rotation
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
  • 1 Dúnedain Rangers
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fell Stinger
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Grave Pact
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Junji, the Midnight Sky
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 9 Nazgûl
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Riveteers Overlook
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Sauron, the Necromancer
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Urborg
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Witch-king, Bringer of Ruin
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth