Smeagol by jallen3030

Format: Commander

Commander: Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 27

Deck overview

This deck executes a hybrid Golgari Landfall and Aristocrats strategy led by Sméagol, Helpful Guide. The primary game plan revolves around sacrificing recursive creatures like Bloodghast and Ophiomancer to trigger Sméagol's end-step ability. Whenever the Ring tempts you, Sméagol steals lands directly from opponents' libraries onto your battlefield. This accelerated mana base quickly fuels high-ceiling landfall generators such as Scute Swarm, Zendikar's Roil, and Mole Man, Moloid Master. Group-drain payoffs like Syr Konrad, the Grim and Mirkwood Bats turn mass land drops and creature deaths into lethal life loss, while swarms of tokens overwhelm defenses in combat. While the deck boasts resilient recovery through its recursive creatures and independent token engines, it carries inherent vulnerabilities to sweeping removal and lacks dense instant-speed protection for its key permanents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ambush Viper
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Attercop
  • 1 Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bombadil's Song
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Casualties of War
  • 1 Cirith Ungol Patrol
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling Ritual
  • 1 Dúnedain Rangers
  • 1 Eaten Alive
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Foggy Bottom Swamp
  • 12 Forest
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gollum the Abandoned
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gollum, Silent Slinker // Meager Meal
  • 1 Grisly Salvage
  • 1 In Garruk's Wake
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Kazandu Nectarpot
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Mightform Harmonizer
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mirkwood Spider
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Mole Man, Moloid Master
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Naturalize
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
  • 1 Old Man Willow
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pirate Peddlers
  • 1 Primeval Bounty
  • 1 Protean Hydra
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Shelob, Child of Ungoliant
  • 1 Shelob, Dread Weaver
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Spore Crawler
  • 1 Subterranean Cavern
  • 12 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 The Black Breath
  • 1 The Ring Goes South
  • 1 Thriving Grove
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Uruk-hai Berserker
  • 1 Viridian Longbow
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil