Smaugggg by goobiedoobie

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 55

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Rakdos big-mana combo deck built around Smaug the Impenetrable. Smaug possesses haste, indestructible, and a powerful triggered ability that creates a Treasure token for each point of noncombat damage dealt to it. The deck accelerates through dense fast mana, rituals, and cost reducers to cast Smaug ahead of curve on Turn 4. Once Smaug enters the battlefield, the pilot casts high-damage spells such as Blasphemous Act, Cut Propulsion, Star of Extinction, or Self-Destruct, targeting Smaug. Because Smaug is indestructible, it survives lethal damage while generating 13 to 20 or more Treasure tokens immediately. These Treasures provide the massive mana required to cast game-ending finishers like Torment of Hailfire, Crackle with Power, or Exsanguinate in the very same turn. Redundant tutors, damage enablers, and burn outlets provide consistency, while free interaction like Not of This World shields Smaug during the critical execution window.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 2 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Comet Storm
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dimir House Guard
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspark Reactor
  • 1 Dragonspeaker Shaman
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fiendlash
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Geothermal Bog
  • 1 Glimpse the Impossible
  • 1 Glóin the Mighty // Easy Pickings
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Heroes for Hire
  • 1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Knollspine Dragon
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Loki's Scepter
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 7 Mountain
  • 1 Necrodominance
  • 1 Night Dealings
  • 1 Not of This World
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Requiem Monolith
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rivaz of the Claw
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Splinter's Technique
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Tendo Ice Bridge
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 Torment of Hailfire
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Wayfarer's Bauble