For the love of gold by valsyourpal

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 56

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Rakdos combo list engineered around Smaug the Impenetrable. Smaug possesses flying, haste, and indestructible, converting every point of noncombat damage dealt to him into a Treasure token. The deck leverages explosive ritual acceleration (Dark Ritual, Seething Song, Geosurge, Jeska's Will) to cast Smaug ahead of curve on Turn 4. Once assembled, the pilot targets Smaug with efficient self-burn spells like Cut Propulsion (dealing 16 damage for 16 Treasures) or Blasphemous Act (dealing 13 damage). This massive injection of 8 to 16+ colored mana immediately funds game-ending X-spells like Crackle with Power or Exsanguinate, or recursive loops via Past in Flames. Free and low-cost redirection spells like Deflecting Swat and Bolt Bend protect the dragon during the critical turn, closing out games with decisive same-turn table kills.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Call Forth the Tempest
• 1 Cave-In
• 1 Chain Lightning
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crackle with Power
• 1 Cut Propulsion
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Desperate Ritual
• 1 Emergence Zone
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fire Nation Turret
• 1 Fireball
• 1 Firebolt
• 1 Flashback
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Geosurge
• 1 Grapeshot
• 1 Great Furnace
• 1 Hex Magic
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Lava Dart
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mount Doom
• 9 Mountain
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Pain for All
• 1 Pariah's Shield
• 1 Past in Flames
• 1 Pestilence
• 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
• 1 Pitiless Carnage
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Pyretic Ritual
• 1 Pyrohemia
• 1 Rain of Riches
• 1 Ranger's Firebrand
• 1 Reckless Fireweaver
• 1 Recoup
• 1 Redirect Lightning
• 1 Requiem Monolith
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Revel in Riches
• 1 Rite of Flame
• 1 Scheming Symmetry
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Self-Destruct
• 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
• 1 Simian Spirit Guide
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Smaug the Magnificent
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Solphim, Mayhem Dominus
• 1 Star of Extinction
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tibalt's Trickery
• 1 Untimely Malfunction
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Vault of Whispers
• 1 Vision of Love
• 1 Walking Ballista
• 1 Weftstalker Ardent
• 1 Will of the Jeskai
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman