Smaug by Doc56Who

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Dragon Midrange strategy centered around Smaug the Impenetrable. The game plan focuses on ramping during the first three turns with mana rocks and cost reducers to cast Smaug ahead of curve on Turn 5. Because Smaug has indestructible and haste, it attacks immediately and turns damage-based sweepers like Blasphemous Act or Slagstorm into massive bursts of Treasure tokens. These Treasures fuel game-ending threats such as Utvara Hellkite, Dragonstorm, Warstorm Surge, and Rise of the Dark Realms. The deck includes efficient black tutors and free interaction like Deflecting Swat and Deadly Rollick to protect its game state. It applies overwhelming aerial pressure, eliminating the table over two combat cycles by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Backdraft Hellkite
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Burst Lightning
  • 1 Chandra, Flameshaper
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desert Were-Worm
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonstorm
  • 1 Dragonstorm Globe
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Enraged Flamecaster
  • 1 Erebor Flamesmith
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiery Annihilation
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Firespitter Whelp
  • 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
  • 1 Gimli of the Glittering Caves
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Great Hall of the Biblioplex
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heated Argument
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Incinerating Blast
  • 1 Last Light of Durin's Day
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Strike
  • 1 Liliana, Death Mage
  • 9 Mountain
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Painful Quandary
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 RMS Titanic
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reverberate
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rite of the Dragoncaller
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Rune-Scarred Demon
  • 1 Slagstorm
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Temple of the Dragon Queen
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The Lonely Mountain
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thrór's Map
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Volcanic Salvo
  • 1 Vorrac Battlehorns
  • 1 Warstorm Surge