Smaug by kpmd13

Format: Commander

Commander: Smaug, Wicked Worm

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

Smaug, Wicked Worm commands a synergistic Rakdos midrange deck centered on Treasure generation, card velocity, and aristocrat life drain. The deck accelerates through early turns using efficient mana rocks and token producers like Magda, Brazen Outlaw and Captain Lannery Storm. Once Smaug, Wicked Worm enters the battlefield, any spell cast using Treasure mana replaces itself, turning the resource pool into an explosive card-drawing engine. The primary win condition leverages table-wide pingers such as Mirkwood Bats, Marionette Apprentice, and Reckless Fireweaver. When paired with massive Treasure producers like Cavern-Hoard Dragon, Hit the Mother Lode, or There and Back Again, creating and sacrificing dozens of tokens drains all three opponents simultaneously. Backup win conditions include dragon combat damage and the alternate victory trigger on Hellkite Tyrant. Efficient 1-mana protection spells safeguard the commander from destruction, allowing the deck to sustain momentum through opposing interaction.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Al Bhed Salvagers
• 1 Amulet of Vigor
• 1 Ancient Copper Dragon
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Big Score
• 1 Black Market Connections
• 1 Blasphemous Act
• 1 Blazemire Verge
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bolt Bend
• 1 Bonehoard Dracosaur
• 1 Brass's Bounty
• 1 Cabal Coffers
• 1 Captain Lannery Storm
• 1 Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• 1 Chain Lightning
• 1 Coin of Mastery
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Crime Novelist
• 1 Deadly Dispute
• 1 Diamond Pick-Axe
• 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Enterprising Scallywag
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Fake Your Own Death
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Feign Death
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Foreboding Ruins
• 1 Generous Plunderer
• 1 Glóin, Dwarf Emissary
• 1 Goldspan Dragon
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hellkite Tyrant
• 1 Hit the Mother Lode
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Kalain, Reclusive Painter
• 1 Kaya's Ghostform
• 1 Luxury Suite
• 1 Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Mastermind Plum
• 1 Mayhem Devil
• 1 Mines of Moria
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 9 Mountain
• 1 Nadier's Nightblade
• 1 Not Dead After All
• 1 Panharmonicon
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Rain of Riches
• 1 Raucous Theater
• 1 Reckless Fireweaver
• 1 Return the Favor
• 1 Screaming Nemesis
• 1 Seize the Spoils
• 1 Shadow the Hedgehog
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Shiny Impetus
• 1 Smaug the Impenetrable
• 1 Smaug the Magnificent
• 1 Smaug, Wicked Worm
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sticky Fingers
• 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
• 1 Sulfurous Springs
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Dominance
• 1 Temple of the False God
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 There and Back Again
• 1 Tibalt's Trickery
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Treasure Vault
• 1 Twinflame
• 1 Undying Malice
• 1 Untimely Malfunction
• 1 Weftstalker Ardent
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Xorn