Draconomics by ANTHO

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug, Wicked Worm

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 48

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Rakdos Treasure engine led by Smaug, Wicked Worm. The game plan revolves around rapidly generating artifact tokens in the early turns through low-cost creatures like Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer, Magda, Brazen Outlaw, and utility permanents such as Black Market Connections. Once Smaug enters the battlefield, any Treasure spent to cast spells translates into card velocity, turning the deck into an explosive pseudo-storm engine. Mana accelerators such as Crime Novelist, Goldspan Dragon, and Storm-Kiln Artist exponentially expand available resources. With massive pools of mana and cards in hand, the deck closes out the game in a single decisive turn, primarily via an escalated Crackle with Power, a lethal trample charge with Craterclaw Colossus, or tutoring direct answers with Magda, Brazen Outlaw. It protects its key turns using efficient redirection spells like Deflecting Swat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Aggravated Assault
  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
  • 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darksteel Citadel
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Descent into Avernus
  • 1 Dragon Tempest
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Ganax, Astral Hunter
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Inspired Tinkering
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 10 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shadowspear
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sneak Attack
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spinerock Knoll
  • 1 Splinter Twin
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 7 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 The Fire Crystal
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treasure Vault
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Xorn