Smaug by MrGi1

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Smaug the Impenetrable commands a Rakdos deck centered on explosive Treasure generation and lethal artifact-synergy payouts. The strategy relies on accelerating mana quickly with rituals and ramp to deploy Smaug, then triggering his ability by targeting him with noncombat burn spells such as Flame Slash, Cut Propulsion, and Self-Destruct. Each point of damage translates directly into Treasure tokens. With vast artifact stockpiles, the deck wins through direct burn triggers from Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade, and Disciple of the Vault, alternative win conditions like Revel in Riches and Hellkite Tyrant, or massive mana sinks such as Exsanguinate.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Brotherhood's End
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chandra, Torch of Defiance
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Curse of Opulence
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Dwarven Mine
  • 1 Emeritus of Conflict // Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Explosive Shot
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Flame Slash
  • 1 Gilded Lotus
  • 1 Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings
  • 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Needle Drop
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Hulk
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Sear
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Slagstorm
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Tyrant
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Terror of the Peaks
  • 1 The Eternity Elevator
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Reaver Cleaver
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urza's Incubator
  • 1 Viridian Longbow
  • 1 Xorn
  • 1 Zombify