treasure by SCraythorn

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos Treasure and Dragon Midrange deck helmed by Smaug the Impenetrable. The primary strategy focuses on deploying early ramp and Treasure generators on Turns 2 through 4 to accelerate into the 7-mana commander on Turn 5. Once on the board, Smaug provides an immediate 8-power flying and indestructible clock with haste. The deck breaks parity on symmetric damage sweepers like Blasphemous Act, using noncombat damage to trigger Smaug and generate massive piles of Treasure tokens. These tokens are subsequently converted into direct table-wide life loss through payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Ingenious Artillerist, or a lethal Exsanguinate. While the commander is inherently resilient against destruction and combat damage, the deck lacks stack interaction and supporting protection against exile-based removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Abrade
• 1 Alchemist's Talent
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• 1 Basilisk Collar
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Bloodfell Caves
• 1 Brass's Bounty
• 1 Captain Lannery Storm
• 1 Casey & Raph, Hotheads
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Currency Converter
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Deadly Tempest
• 1 Decadent Dragon // Expensive Taste
• 1 Diabolic Intent
• 1 Dori, Bearer of Friends
• 1 Dragonlord's Servant
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Earthquake
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Faithless Looting
• 1 Fall of the Hammer
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fiery Temper
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
• 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
• 1 Gimli of the Glittering Caves
• 1 Goblin Glasswright // Craft with Pride
• 1 Goldlust Triad
• 1 Goldvein Pick
• 1 Grim Haruspex
• 1 Guild Artisan
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hit the Mother Lode
• 1 Hoarding Ogre
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Ingenious Artillerist
• 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
• 1 Killmonger, Ruthless Usurper
• 1 Locke, Treasure Hunter
• 1 Luke Cage, Hero for Hire
• 1 Meticulous Artisan
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 14 Mountain
• 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
• 1 Ornithopter of Paradise
• 1 Pain for All
• 1 Phyrexian Arena
• 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Setzer, Wandering Gambler
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Smaug the Magnificent
• 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Soul Shatter
• 1 Soul-Guide Lantern
• 8 Swamp
• 1 Swashbuckler Extraordinaire
• 1 Temple of Malice
• 1 Terminate
• 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
• 1 There and Back Again
• 1 Treasure Vault
• 1 Vault Robber
• 1 Vilis, Broker of Blood
• 1 Village Rites
• 1 Void
• 1 Volcanic Geyser
• 1 Zombify