Mirkwood by Kasori

Format: Commander

Commander: Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

Smeagol, Helpful Guide leads a Golgari landfall and Ring-temptation deck that turns every land drop and Ring trigger into ramp, card draw, and a growing board of Bears, Wolves, and Beasts. The primary plan is to develop lands and +1/+1 counters, then close with trampling beaters such as Gigantic Big Bear, End-Raze Forerunners, or Unnatural Growth. The Ring subtheme provides steady land theft and card advantage, while Smeagol's end-step trigger recurs whenever a creature dies. The deck is a midrange value engine that wins through combat, with no infinite combo lines.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abundance
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Asceticism
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bejeweled Warg
  • 1 Beorn the Fierce
  • 1 Beorn's Hospitality
  • 1 Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Desolation Prowler
  • 1 Duskwatch Hunter
  • 1 Dúnedain Rangers
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 End-Raze Forerunners
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 14 Forest
  • 1 Gigantic Big Bear
  • 1 Golgari Rot Farm
  • 1 Gollum the Abandoned
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Gollum, Silent Slinker // Meager Meal
  • 1 Goreclaw, Terror of Qal Sisma
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 Head of the Hunt
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Inspiring Call
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Large Bear
  • 1 Little Bear
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Loading Zone
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Maskwood Nexus
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Nasty Little Rabbit
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nighthowl Pursuer
  • 1 Ordinary Bear
  • 1 Part in Friendship
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Ravening Warg
  • 1 Reverent Howl
  • 1 Rhonas's Monument
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sakura-Tribe Elder
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Spider-Ham, Peter Porker
  • 2 Studious First-Year // Rampant Growth
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Terrasymbiosis
  • 1 The Chief Warg
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unnatural Growth
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wargling
  • 1 Wilderland Scrounger
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery