Smaug by Ballerbox

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug the Impenetrable

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos combo strategy built around Smaug the Impenetrable. The core game plan accelerates into a Turn 5 or 6 Smaug, utilizing its native flying, indestructible, and haste properties to absorb massive noncombat damage without dying. By targeting Smaug with severe burn spells like Cut Propulsion, Fire Covenant, Shivan Meteor, or Star of Extinction, the deck instantly generates 13 to 20 untapped Treasure tokens. These tokens immediately fund lethal mana sinks like Crackle with Power or trigger devastating table-wide life loss through payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, Reckless Fireweaver, and Mayhem Devil. The deck features high redundancy among self-damage triggers and drain outlets, allowing it to close games in a single explosive turn. While heavily resilient against destruction board wipes, it requires careful timing to navigate opposing counterspells and exile-based removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Artist's Talent
  • 1 Blazing Sunsteel
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Brass's Bounty
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 City on Fire
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Coveted Jewel
  • 1 Crackle with Power
  • 1 Craterclaw Colossus
  • 1 Curse-Marred Demon
  • 1 Cut Propulsion
  • 1 Dark Fortress
  • 1 Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought
  • 1 Death to Our Enemies
  • 1 Draconic Visitor
  • 1 Dragon's Desire
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
  • 1 Essence Burn
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Fanatical Offering
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fiery Emancipation
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Fractured Powerstone
  • 1 Galvanic Blast
  • 1 General Traag, Heart of Stone
  • 1 Glittering Stockpile
  • 1 Goblin-town
  • 1 HYDRA Assault Robot
  • 1 Hellkite Tyrant
  • 1 Hit the Mother Lode
  • 1 Juri, Master of the Revue
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mica, Reader of Ruins
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 19 Mountain
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Pain for All
  • 1 Pariah's Shield
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Plasma Bolt
  • 1 Pyrohemia
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rumbling Rockslide
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Self-Destruct
  • 1 Shivan Meteor
  • 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
  • 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
  • 1 Smaug, the Great Calamity // Spew Flame
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spiteful Banditry
  • 1 Star of Extinction
  • 9 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 Vision of Love
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent
  • 1 Witchstalker Frenzy
  • 1 Zookeeper Mechan