Mill by RadioLynx

Format: Commander

Commander: Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This deck is a Golgari Landfall Aristocrats strategy helmed by Sméagol, Helpful Guide. The game plan revolves around sacrificing disposable creatures each turn to trigger Sméagol's Ring-tempting ability, which systematically mills opponents' libraries and steals their lands directly onto your battlefield. This steady stream of stolen lands fuels explosive landfall engines such as Scute Swarm, Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer, Lotus Cobra, and Avenger of Zendikar. The resulting creature tokens serve as both an overwhelming combat force and continuous sacrifice fodder for aristocrat drain pieces like Blood Artist, Zulaport Cutthroat, Mirkwood Bats, and Syr Konrad, the Grim. Additionally, the deck contains a lethal two-card infinite combo featuring Bloodchief Ascension and Mindcrank, capable of rapidly draining all three opponents in a single turn. Supported by resilient land-based protection and recursion, the deck generates compounding mana and board advantage that steadily closes the game by Turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Accursed Marauder
  • 1 Altar of Dementia
  • 1 Altar of the Brood
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avenger of Zendikar
  • 1 Ba Sing Se
  • 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Beifong's Bounty Hunters
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Bloodchief Ascension
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bombadil's Song
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bygone Marvels
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron of Essence
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Compy Swarm
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dúnedain Rangers
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Field of Ruin
  • 1 Field of the Dead
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Glacial Chasm
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Greater Good
  • 1 Greensleeves, Maro-Sorcerer
  • 1 Haywire Mite
  • 1 High Market
  • 1 Honest Rutstein
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Liliana, Dreadhorde General
  • 1 Living Death
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotus Cobra
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mindcrank
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mirrormere Guardian
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noxious Revival
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Plaguecrafter
  • 1 Rampaging Baloths
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Realmbreaker, the Invasion Tree
  • 1 Retreat to Hagra
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Scute Swarm
  • 1 Secret Tunnel
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Susur Secundi, Void Altar
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Sylvan Scrying
  • 1 Syr Konrad, the Grim
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 Tempt with Discovery
  • 1 The Legend of Kyoshi // Avatar Kyoshi
  • 1 Toph, Earthbending Master
  • 1 Uruk-hai Berserker
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Zendikar's Roil
  • 1 Zulaport Cutthroat