Smaug, Wicked Worm by SacredEcho

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug, Wicked Worm

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 51

Deck overview

Smaug, Wicked Worm commands a high-velocity Rakdos Treasure and aristocrat storm deck. The strategy accelerates in the opening turns using efficient rocks and low-cost Treasure generators to deploy Smaug by Turn 4. Once on the battlefield, Smaug turns every Treasure spent on spells into fresh card draw, converting mana velocity into explosive card advantage. The deck capitalizes on this engine on Turn 5 to storm through its library, accumulating massive Treasure pools with Storm-Kiln Artist, Xorn, and Academy Manufactor. It closes games decisively in a single turn using redundant aristocrat drain from Mirkwood Bats, Mayhem Devil, and Nadier's Nightblade, or by channeling mana into a lethal Torment of Hailfire. While vulnerable to instant-speed creature removal and artifact sweepers, the deck maintains resilience through high redundancy, redirection spells like Deflecting Swat, and alternative value engines like Prosper, Tome-Bound that can win without the commander.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Demonic Junker
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Fury Storm
  • 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
  • 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Magda, the Hoardmaster
  • 1 Magmatic Galleon
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mica, Reader of Ruins
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pirate's Pillage
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Scuzzback Scrounger
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sword of Wealth and Power
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Visions of Ruin
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble
  • 1 Xorn