Smaug by joshuaspeaking

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck centers around Smaug the Impenetrable, an 8/7 flying, indestructible Dragon that creates Treasure tokens whenever it takes noncombat damage. The primary game plan focuses on ramping to seven mana, deploying Smaug, and immediately triggering massive Treasure bursts using self-inflicted burn spells like Cut Propulsion, Blasphemous Act, and Self-Destruct. Because Smaug is indestructible, it survives the damage while generating between 8 and 16 Treasures in a single action. The deck converts this sudden influx of mana and artifact tokens into decisive table-wide kills through X-cost finishers like Torment of Hailfire and Exsanguinate, or through artifact-entry and sacrifice pingers such as Mirkwood Bats, Reckless Fireweaver, and Mayhem Devil. Functional redundancy is high across both self-burn enablers and payoff outlets. While vulnerable to exile removal and counterspells, the deck features resilient commander recovery, explosive mana velocity, and high burst damage that reliably closes games on Turn 6.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arcbond
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Brotherhood's End
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Enduring Courage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expedited Inheritance
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Flame Slash
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Galvanic Blast
  • 1 Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings
  • 1 Gollum the Abandoned
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Head of the Hunt
  • 1 Hedron Detonator
  • 1 Hell's Kitchen
  • 1 Last Light of Durin's Day
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Mountains Raider
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Jasper
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Skewer the Critics
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug's Fury
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stonesplitter Bolt
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Zombify