JACKPOT! by user6612637

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Dragon tribal midrange strategy helmed by Smaug the Impenetrable. The game plan revolves around accelerating mana via tribal cost reducers like Dragonspeaker Shaman and Herald's Horn to deploy high-cost, high-impact Dragon beaters ahead of curve. The commander acts as an indestructible 8/7 flying threat with haste that converts noncombat damage from symmetrical sweepers like Blasphemous Act and Chain Reaction into massive bursts of Treasure tokens. While the deck possesses explosive damage potential and asymmetric board wipes like Desolation of Smaug and Breath Weapon, it operates primarily at combat speed. It seeks to close games around Turn 8 through overwhelming aerial swarms powered by Utvara Hellkite, Lathliss, Dragon Queen, and Terror of Mount Velus. Its main challenges lie in vulnerable early development, minimal countermagic, and reliance on creature-based combat steps.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Breaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Breath Weapon
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cool but Rude
  • 1 Count on Luck
  • 1 Crucible of Fire
  • 1 Daily Bugle Newspaper
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonhawk, Fate's Tempest
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Firespitter Whelp
  • 1 Flaming Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Goldlust Triad
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Hazoret's Monument
  • 1 Hellkite Charger
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Impending Flux
  • 1 Koth, the Geomancer
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mjölnir's Might
  • 20 Mountain
  • 1 Nogi, Draco-Zealot
  • 1 Origin of Thor
  • 1 Outpost Siege
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Parapet Thrasher
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Scourge of Valkas
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Secluded Courtyard
  • 1 Skyline Despot
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Spit Flame
  • 1 Stolen Strategy
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Terror of Mount Velus
  • 1 The Elder Dragon War
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Flux
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 Thunderbreak Regent
  • 1 Thundermane Dragon
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Tyrant's Familiar
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Warstorm Surge