Rockefeller deck by THEMormonCrusader

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck executes an explosive big-mana strategy built around Smaug the Impenetrable. Because Smaug converts noncombat damage into equal numbers of Treasure tokens while remaining indestructible, the deck exploits self-damaging sweepers and burn spells to produce massive bursts of artifact mana. Once deployed on Turn 5 or 6, a single Blasphemous Act or Cut Propulsion creates 13 to 16 Treasures while wiping opposing blockers. The deck then converts this sudden economic surplus into decisive game-ending spells such as Torment of Hailfire and Exsanguinate, or triggers lethal table-wide life loss through aristocrat payoffs like Mirkwood Bats and Marionette Apprentice. While the deck features outstanding high-end mana velocity and resilient commander protection, its lack of universal black tutors means it relies on raw card draw and natural redundancy to assemble its required finishers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Ancient Brass Dragon
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ashnod's Intervention
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dizzying Gaze
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Flame Slash
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Necrologia
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Stonesplitter Bolt
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Strip Mine
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 Wasteland
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will