BALLS DEEP by StinkyDinkles

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a high-power Rakdos spellslinger/combo deck helmed by Smaug the Impenetrable, using the dragon's indestructible body and haste as a treasure-generation engine. The core loop is simple: deal noncombat damage to Smaug - via Pyrohemia, Pestilence, Blasphemous Act, Cut Propulsion, or Star of Extinction - and convert the resulting treasure burst into a win. Primary kill lines include the Underworld Breach + Grinding Station + Lotus Petal + Grapeshot storm loop, Reiterate + Jeska's Will infinite mana, and treasure-fueled burn through Mayhem Devil, Reckless Fireweaver, Crackle with Power, and Exsanguinate. A dense tutor suite (seven effects) and fast mana (rituals, Sol Ring, Mana Vault) let the deck assemble its lines quickly, while Ad Nauseam and Necropotence provide explosive card advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Call Forth the Tempest
  • 1 Cave-In
  • 1 Chain Lightning
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Geosurge
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Gut Shot
  • 1 Hex Magic
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Lava Dart
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 6 Mountain
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Opera Love Song
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Past in Flames
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Pitiless Carnage
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Ranger's Firebrand
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Recoup
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reiterate
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Rob the Archives
  • 1 Scheming Symmetry
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Shock
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sundering Eruption // Volcanic Fissure
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Vision of Love
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman