Smaug.

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Smaug is a 100-card Commander deck led by Smaug the Impenetrable in the Rakdos color identity (black/red), played 3 times with a 67% win rate. TableCommander estimates this deck at bracket 4 — optimized / high-power.

The mainboard runs 19 creatures, 19 instants, 10 sorceries, 9 artifacts, 11 enchantments, 1 planeswalker, and 31 lands, averaging 3.35 mana value across non-land cards. 58% of non-land cards cost 3 mana or less; 23% cost 5 or more.

Notable inclusions: 4 game changers (e.g. Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor, and The One Ring), 1 mass land denial card (Blood Moon), 3 fast mana (Cabal Ritual, Dark Ritual, and Pyretic Ritual), 2 alternate win conditions (Revel in Riches and Hellkite Tyrant), and 1 tutor (Magda, Brazen Outlaw). This deck is currently Commander-legal on TableCommander.

COMMANDER

Commander

PLANESWALKER(1)

CREATURE(18)

ARTIFACT(9)

ENCHANTMENT(11)

INSTANT(19)

SORCERY(10)

LAND(31)

12×

5×

100

Total

Creatures

Spells

Lands

Bracket

Games

Wins

67%

Win Rate

Why bracket 4? — Optimized

4 early two-card combos: Smaug the Impenetrable + Chain Lightning, Smaug the Impenetrable + Mayhem Devil and 2 more

A two-card infinite combo cheap enough to assemble and win in the early game (data from Commander Spellbook). Bracket 3 decks are expected not to run these; any means Bracket 4.

1 mass land denial

Destroys, exiles, or locks down many lands without replacing them. Any mass land denial means Bracket 4.

Blood Moon

4 Game Changers

Cards on WotC's official Game Changers list. Any puts a deck at Bracket 3 or above; more than three means Bracket 4.

Demonic TutorOrcish BowmastersThe One RingVampiric Tutor

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CURVE

COLORS

1827%

4973%

COMBOS

Combos

Early

2-Card

3+ Card

Game-Ending

Mayhem Devil+

Smaug the Impenetrableearly

Infinite colored mana, Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers

Prerequisites

You control a Treasure.

Steps

Activate a Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding one mana of any color.
Mayhem Devil triggers, dealing 1 damage to Smaug.
Smaug triggers, creating a Treasure token.
Repeat.

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Pyrohemia+

Smaug the Impenetrableearly

Near-infinite damage to all players, Near-infinite damage to creatures, Near-infinite artifact ETB, Near-infinite artifact LTB, Near-infinite artifact sacrifice triggers

Steps

Activate Pyrohemia by paying R, dealing 1 damage to each player and creature.
Smaug triggers, creating a Treasure token.
Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding R.
Repeat.

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Smaug the Impenetrable+

Pestilenceearly

Near-infinite damage to all players, Near-infinite damage to creatures, Near-infinite artifact ETB, Near-infinite artifact LTB, Near-infinite artifact sacrifice triggers

Steps

Activate Pestilence by paying B, dealing 1 damage to each player and creature.
Smaug triggers, creating a Treasure token.
Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding B.
Repeat.

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Chain Lightning+

Smaug the Impenetrableearly

Infinite Treasure tokens, Infinite colored mana, Infinite magecraft triggers, Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB, Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers, Infinite artifact tokens

Steps

Cast Chain Lightning by paying R, dealing 3 damage to Smaug, Then, choose to pay RR to copy Chain Lightning, with the copy targeting Smaug.
Smaug triggers, creating three Treasure tokens.
Holding priority, activate two Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding RR.
Resolve Chain Lightning, dealing 3 damage to Smaug, Then, choose to pay RR to copy Chain Lightning, with the copy targeting Smaug.
Repeat from step 2.

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Brash Taunter+

Dawnsire, Sunstar Dreadnought

Near-infinite damage to one opponent

Prerequisites

You control a creature that can attack this turn.
Dawnsire has ten or more charge counters on it.

Steps

Declare any creature as an attacker. Dawnsire triggers, dealing 100 damage to Brash Taunter.
Brash Taunter triggers, dealing 100 damage to target opponent.

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Mirkwood Bats+

There and Back Again+

Academy Manufactor

Near-infinite lifeloss

Prerequisites

You have a way to kill a creature.
There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it.

Steps

At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it.
There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again.
Mirkwood Bats triggers, causing each opponent to lose 1 life.
Kill the Smaug token, triggering its ability creating fourteen Treasure, fourteen Clue and fourteen Food tokens.
Mirkwood Bats triggers 42 times, causing each opponent to lose 42 life.
If desired, activate the Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding fourteen mana of any color(s).
If you sacrificed the Treasures, Mirkwood Bats triggers fourteen times, causing each opponent to lose 14 life.

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Combo data from Commander Spellbook. “Early” two-card combos (cheap enough to win in the first few turns) put a deck at Bracket 4; other two-card combos are at home in Bracket 3.

Valid

Legality

This deck currently passes the commander checks.

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