New Untitled Deck by aparks

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 47

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos midrange and damage-reflection strategy commanded by Smaug the Impenetrable. The primary game plan accelerates mana through early Treasure producers like Kalain, Reclusive Painter, Magda, Brazen Outlaw, and Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge to deploy the commander on Turn 5. Because Smaug has flying, indestructible, and haste, it immediately turns self-inflicted noncombat damage into massive Treasure generation via spells like Cut Propulsion, Self-Destruct, and Pyrohemia. These banked Treasures feed explosive win conditions, including one-shot commander attacks with Cranial Plating, burn engines like Alchemist's Talent and Mayhem Devil, and board-clearing swings with Chandra's Ignition. The deck also contains an independent infinite damage loop between Barbed Servitor and Blazing Sunsteel. Robust redirection spells like Deflecting Swat and Imp's Mischief shield the commander from exile removal, ensuring rapid and resilient table finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alchemist's Talent
  • 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Barbed Servitor
  • 1 Basilisk Collar
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blazing Sunsteel
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Canyon Slough
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Coin of Mastery
  • 1 Collector's Vault
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cranial Plating
  • 1 Crime Novelist
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dragonspark Reactor
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Flame Slash
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Generous Plunderer
  • 1 Goldspan Dragon
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hell to Pay
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
  • 1 Kellogg, Dangerous Mind
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Rain of Riches
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Requiem Monolith
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Screaming Nemesis
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Simulacrum
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Fire
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Ten Rings
  • 1 There and Back Again
  • 1 Twinflame Tyrant
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Wrathful Red Dragon