smaug by Kingmonsterman

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 44

Deck overview

This deck leverages Smaug the Impenetrable as a resilient centerpiece and explosive mana engine. The game plan focuses on early acceleration using cheap ramp, rituals, and Treasure producers to deploy Smaug ahead of curve on Turn 5. Because Smaug possesses innate indestructible, flying, and haste, it presents an immediate combat clock while threatening to generate enormous quantities of Treasure tokens whenever noncombat damage spells resolve. Spells like Blasphemous Act and Desolation of Smaug double as one-sided board wipes and massive burst rituals. Once a large stockpile of Treasures is assembled, the deck closes the game rapidly using aristocrat-style burn payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Reckless Fireweaver, and Mayhem Devil, or through alternate heavy hitters such as Ancient Copper Dragon and Bolas's Citadel. The strategy is resilient against creature-based strategies, though it remains vulnerable to mass exile and enchantment-based interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Akoum Refuge
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bituminous Blast
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Captain Lannery Storm
  • 1 Carnage, Crimson Chaos
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Den of the Bugbear
  • 1 Desolation of Smaug
  • 1 Doctor Doom
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 HYDRA Assault Robot
  • 1 Hell's Kitchen
  • 1 Heroes for Hire
  • 1 Impulsive Pilferer
  • 1 Killmonger, Ruthless Usurper
  • 1 Kingpin, Wilson Fisk
  • 1 Lethal Protection
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luke Cage, Hero for Hire
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Machinesmith Automaton
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Nim Deathmantle
  • 1 Ominous Asylum
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos, Patron of Chaos
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shambling Ghast
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Simulacrum
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stark Industries Executive
  • 1 Stone-Giant of High Pass
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Thriving Bluff
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Urborg Volcano
  • 1 Vector, Imperial Capital
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon