infinite dragons

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This Rakdos Big Mana deck revolves around Smaug the Impenetrable, an indestructible 8/7 flying dragon with haste that creates Treasure tokens whenever it takes noncombat damage. The game plan focuses on ramping during the first four turns to deploy Smaug on Turn 6. Once on the board, the deck targets Smaug with symmetric damage spells like Blasphemous Act or direct burns like Self-Destruct. Because Smaug is indestructible, he survives the damage and produces eight to thirteen Treasures in a single burst. This sudden surplus of mana fuels game-ending finishers such as Crackle with Power, Exsanguinate, or a mass reanimation via Rise of the Dark Realms. Alternatively, Draconic Visitor converts incoming Treasures into a lethal swarm of 5/5 flying Dragons. While vulnerable to exile removal and countermagic targeting its expensive commander, the deck converts ordinary burn spells into overwhelming mana and decisive board states.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancestors' Aid
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arena
• 1 Artifist Acumen
• 1 Avengers Disassembled
• 1 Azula, On the Hunt
• 1 Ball Lightning
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Bitter Triumph
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodgift Demon
• 1 Break Under Pressure
• 1 Breaker of Creation
• 1 Bulk Up
• 1 Cast Away Doubt
• 1 Chandra's Emberling
• 1 Corrupted Conviction
• 1 Crackle with Power
• 1 Cunning Maneuver
• 1 Dark Fortress
• 1 Demand Answers
• 1 Desolation of Smaug
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
• 1 Draconic Visitor
• 1 Dragon's Desire
• 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
• 1 Enduring Courage
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Extended Absence
• 1 Extrapolate the Impossible
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fire Magic
• 1 Firespitter Whelp
• 1 Ghostfire Slice
• 1 Goldvein Pick
• 1 Grab the Prize
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Heroes for Hire
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Luke Cage, Hero for Hire
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 14 Mountain
• 1 Multiply by Zero
• 1 Ozai, the Phoenix King
• 1 Price of Freedom
• 1 Ravenous Robots
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rough Rhino Cavalry
• 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1 Rush of Dread
• 1 Samut, Hazoret's Champion
• 1 Scene of the Crime
• 1 Seize the Spoils
• 1 Self-Destruct
• 1 Sidequest: Hunt the Mark // Yiazmat, Ultimate Mark
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Splinter's Technique
• 1 Starting Town
• 11 Swamp
• 1 Terramorphic Expanse
• 1 The Legend of Roku // Avatar Roku
• 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
• 1 Victimize
• 1 Worn Powerstone
• 1 Wrath of the Bloodmane