Smaug the Impenetrable by grondemar

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

A Rakdos treasure-combo deck built around Smaug the Impenetrable's damage-triggered Treasures. The primary plan is to get Smaug into play early, hit him with a self-damage spell (Cut Propulsion, Self-Destruct, Pestilence), convert the resulting Treasure flood into a Revel in Riches upkeep win or a lethal Exsanguinate/Crackle with Power. Secondary paths use Mirkwood Bats/Pain for All as drain engines, Magda and Goldspan for acceleration, and Hellkite Tyrant/Knuckles as artifact-count backups. No hidden commander; both Smaug variants in the 99 are value Dragons. The deck is fast but fragile if Smaug is removed before the damage trigger.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Emeritus of Woe // Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Lake of the Dead
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mjölnir, Hammer of Thor
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Revel in Riches
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Shinka, the Bloodsoaked Keep
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Starstorm
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 The Darkness Crystal
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Valakut, the Molten Pinnacle
  • 1 Vance's Blasting Cannons // Spitfire Bastion
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Witch's Cottage
  • 1 Xorn