Smeagol, Helpful Guide by nvater

Format: Commander

Commander: Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Golgari deck utilizes Sméagol, Helpful Guide to blend Aristocrats sacrifice engines with Landfall triggers and library mill. The primary game plan revolves around sacrificing recurring creatures to trigger the Ring tempting you, which causes Sméagol to steal lands from opponents' libraries and place them directly onto your battlefield. By Turn 4, the deck establishes consistent end-step land theft and card flow. On Turn 5, it deploys Dúnedain Rangers, creating a repeatable loop with a sacrifice outlet and recurring fodder like Bloodghast that strips every land from all three opponents' decks and mills their entire libraries into their graveyards. Backup lines leverage wide landfall token production via Scute Swarm and Avenger of Zendikar or drain via Ob Nixilis, the Fallen. While vulnerable to instant-speed creature removal and graveyard hate, the deck possesses robust reanimation and strong tutoring to reliably execute its combo finish by Turn 6.

Decklist (106 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Ancient Greenwarden
  • 1 Animate Dead
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bombadil's Song
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Chthonian Nightmare
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dread Presence
  • 1 Dúnedain Rangers
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 1 Final Vengeance
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Lash of the Balrog
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 3 Nazgûl
  • 1 Necromancy
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ramunap Excavator
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Shortcut to Mushrooms
  • 1 Shriekmaw
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Springheart Nantuko
  • 1 Squandered Resources
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 The Black Breath
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ring Goes South
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tireless Tracker
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Warren Soultrader
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 World Shaper
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil
  • 1 Zuran Orb