Smeagol, Helpful Guide (copy) by DJ_PeePants

Format: Commander

Commander: Sméagol, Helpful Guide

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 43

Deck overview

This deck leverages Sméagol, Helpful Guide to turn creature sacrifice and Ring tempt triggers into ramp, card advantage, and library disruption. By pairing recurring sacrifice fodder with free sacrifice outlets, the deck consistently triggers Sméagol on each of its end steps to steal lands directly from opponents' libraries. This mana advantage accelerates powerful mid-game payoffs such as The Gitrog Monster, Ob Nixilis, the Fallen, and The One Ring. The deck's primary victory condition is an infinite landfall-mill engine using Dúnedain Rangers, Bloodghast, and a sacrifice outlet, which exiles or mills every card from all opposing libraries in a single turn. Defensively, Sylvan Safekeeper and Constant Mists use the influx of stolen lands to provide shroud and repeatable combat fog locks, ensuring the deck survives into the late game.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ashnod's Altar
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bilbo's Ring
  • 1 Blighted Woodland
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Blooming Marsh
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Cankerbloom
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Constant Mists
  • 1 Corrupted Conviction
  • 1 Cryptic Caves
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawntreader Elk
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Deathreap Ritual
  • 1 Deathrite Shaman
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dreadhound
  • 1 Dúnedain Rangers
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fecundity
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Golgari Signet
  • 1 Gollum the Abandoned
  • 1 Gollum's Bite
  • 1 Gollum, Patient Plotter
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Grim Backwoods
  • 1 Grim Haruspex
  • 1 Guul Draz Overseer
  • 1 Harrow
  • 1 Insidious Fungus
  • 1 Jaddi Offshoot
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Moldervine Reclamation
  • 1 Morbid Opportunist
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nissa of Shadowed Boughs
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Nurturing Peatland
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
  • 1 One Ring to Rule Them All
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pillage the Bog
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Ringwraiths
  • 1 Rise of the Dark Realms
  • 1 Rise of the Witch-king
  • 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
  • 1 Shifting Woodland
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spelunking
  • 1 Sporemound
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Sylvan Safekeeper
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple of Malady
  • 1 The Black Breath
  • 1 The Gitrog Monster
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ring Goes South
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tom, Bert, and William
  • 1 Twilight Mire
  • 1 Twinblade Assassins
  • 1 Ulvenwald Mysteries
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Village Rites
  • 1 Viridescent Bog
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Wight of the Reliquary
  • 1 Woe Strider
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery