smaug sep11 by user4961787

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Magnificent

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This mono-red Commander deck pairs Dragon tribal stompy with Treasure-scaling direct damage, led by Smaug the Magnificent. The deck uses early acceleration and Treasure producers like Sticky Fingers, Sol Ring, and Magda, Brazen Outlaw to deploy Smaug on Turn 4. Because Smaug possesses natural haste, he attacks immediately, dealing direct damage equal to your Treasure count to any target while generating fresh Treasures on each upkeep. In the midgame, the deck scales its board with massive Dragon threats such as Drakuseth, Maw of Flames, Lathliss, Dragon Queen, and Goldspan Dragon, turning combat phases into decisive life total swings. Card advantage engines like The One Ring and Professional Face-Breaker keep the hand full of gas, while sweepers like Blasphemous Act and Desolation of Smaug clear opposing ground blockers. The deck finishes games reliably through overwhelming flying combat damage combined with direct burn from Smaug's attack trigger.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anger
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Breaching Dragonstorm
  • 1 Breath Weapon
  • 1 Bucknard's Everfull Purse
  • 1 Chaos Dragon
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crucible of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Delina, Wild Mage
  • 1 Demanding Dragon
  • 1 Demolition Field
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
  • 1 Disintegrate
  • 1 Dori, Bearer of Friends
  • 1 Dracogenesis
  • 1 Dragonmaster Outcast
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dragonstorm
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
  • 1 Gimli of the Glittering Caves
  • 1 Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
  • 1 Gold Pan
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Goldvein Pick
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Last Light of Durin's Day
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Manaform Hellkite
  • 1 Memorial to War
  • 1 Meticulous Artisan
  • 21 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Jasper
  • 1 Northampton Farm
  • 1 Opportunistic Dragon
  • 1 Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Plundering Barbarian
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Rapacious Dragon
  • 1 Raphael, the Nightwatcher
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sarkhan's Rage
  • 1 Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant
  • 1 Sarkhan, Fireblood
  • 1 Seize the Spoils
  • 1 Shiny Impetus
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug's Fury
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stark Industries Executive
  • 1 Sticky Fingers
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Subterranean Tremors
  • 1 Sudden Breakthrough
  • 1 Sudden Demise
  • 1 Swarming of Moria
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 The Gold Saucer
  • 1 The Lonely Mountain
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vault 21: House Gambit
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Zhao, the Moon Slayer