Smaug by marcusdantas15

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 72

Deck overview

This competitive Rakdos turbo combo deck leverages Smaug the Impenetrable as both a colossal mana engine and an infinite win condition. Smaug's ability to convert noncombat damage into Treasure tokens turns symmetrical board wipes and targeted burn into massive mana bursts. Paired with Mayhem Devil, every sacrificed Treasure deals damage to Smaug, generating replacement Treasures and unbounded mana to ping the table to death. The deck achieves remarkable velocity through a dense suite of positive mana rituals, 0-1 drop artifacts, and top-tier black tutors. If the commander is suppressed, independent win packages centered around Hoarding Broodlord convoke lines and Underworld Breach storm sequences execute on identical turns. Countermagic protection like Deflecting Swat, Pyroblast, and Defense Grid shields critical win attempts, allowing the pilot to threaten game-ending sequences as early as Turn 2 or 3.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Ancient Tomb
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Arid Mesa
• 1 Beseech the Mirror
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Blood Pet
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Burnt Offering
• 1 Cabal Ritual
• 1 Cavern of Souls
• 1 Chain Lightning
• 1 Chain Reaction
• 1 Chrome Mox
• 1 City of Brass
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crystal Vein
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Cut Propulsion
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Defense Grid
• 1 Deflecting Swat
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Desperate Ritual
• 1 Entomb
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Expedited Inheritance
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Fire Covenant
• 1 Gamble
• 1 Gemstone Caverns
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Grim Tutor
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hex Magic
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Hoarding Broodlord
• 1 Imperial Seal
• 1 Jeska's Will
• 1 Lightning Bolt
• 1 Lotus Petal
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mana Vault
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mount Doom
• 3 Mountain
• 1 Necropotence
• 1 Orcish Bowmasters
• 1 Peer into the Abyss
• 1 Phyrexian Tower
• 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
• 1 Polluted Delta
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Pyretic Ritual
• 1 Pyroblast
• 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
• 1 Rain of Filth
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Reanimate
• 1 Reckless Barbarian
• 1 Red Elemental Blast
• 1 Rite of Flame
• 1 Saw in Half
• 1 Scalding Tarn
• 1 Seething Song
• 1 Self-Destruct
• 1 Simian Spirit Guide
• 1 Skirk Prospector
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spire of Industry
• 1 Strike It Rich
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 Tezzeret, Cruel Captain
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Soul Stone
• 1 Thran Dynamo
• 1 Treasonous Ogre
• 1 Underworld Breach
• 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1 Urza's Saga
• 1 Vampiric Tutor
• 1 Wheel of Misfortune
• 1 Will of the Jeskai
• 1 Wishclaw Talisman
• 1 Wooded Foothills