New Untitled Deck by user2841666

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 26

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Big-Mana Dragon Midrange strategy built around Smaug the Impenetrable. The deck spends its opening turns fixing colors and ramping with artifacts like Arcane Signet and tribal cost-reducers such as Dragonspeaker Shaman. On Turn 6, it casts its commander, leveraging Smaug's natural flying, haste, and indestructible to immediately apply pressure. The critical inflection point arrives on Turn 7 when the deck casts high-yield noncombat damage spells like Blasphemous Act or Chain Reaction. Rather than destroying Smaug, these effects clear the board and produce 10 to 13 Treasure tokens. This burst mana fuels drain pieces like Mirkwood Bats and massive airborne dragons like Utvara Hellkite, closing the game over two turn cycles. While resilient against combat and destroy removal, the deck remains vulnerable to exile effects and lacks enchantment interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Carnelian Orb of Dragonkind
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Dizzying Gaze
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Hoard
  • 1 Dragonlord's Servant
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
  • 1 Guild Artisan
  • 1 Haven of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Herald's Horn
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Lathliss, Dragon Queen
  • 1 Leyline Tyrant
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Meteor Swarm
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 17 Mountain
  • 1 Mutinous Massacre
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant
  • 1 Scourge of the Throne
  • 1 Sear
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Skullport Merchant
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spit Flame
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 11 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thrill of Possibility
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Utvara Hellkite
  • 1 Warstorm Surge
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Xorn