Smaug Trial deck (upgraded idea by Kioshi

Format: Commander

Creator: Kioshi

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck leverages Smaug the Impenetrable as an explosive resource engine and combo outlet. By utilizing fast mana, ritual spells, and dragon cost reducers, the deck accelerates into its 7-mana commander well ahead of standard timing. Once Smaug is deployed, any source of noncombat damage triggers massive Treasure production due to his indestructible body. The primary win condition executes an infinite loop with Chain Lightning: Smaug creates three Treasures each time he is dealt 3 damage, easily paying the {R}{R} copy cost while generating surplus mana and damage to eliminate all three opponents in a single turn. Backup strategies include heavy token drain through Mirkwood Bats, Reckless Fireweaver, and Mayhem Devil, recurring sweeps with Pestilence and Pyrohemia, and large mana sinks such as Torment of Hailfire. The list operates with high velocity, threatening decisive wins around Turn 4 while maintaining high resiliency against damage-based board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Brash Taunter
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Clock of Omens
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Ingenious Artillerist
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Universal Automaton
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune