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Smaug the Impenetrable
Legendary Creature — Dragon · {5}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
Flying, indestructible, haste
Whenever Smaug is dealt noncombat damage, create that many Treasure tokens.
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What Smaug the Impenetrable actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever Smaug is dealt noncombat damage, create that many Treasure tokens.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · indestructibleindestructible
- Keyword · hastehaste
What a Smaug the Impenetrable deck needs
Plays as treasure. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- ways to deal it noncombat damage — pingers and symmetrical burn (every point becomes a Treasure, and it's indestructible)
- artifact and Treasure payoffs (it makes Treasures on repeat)
The Smaug the Impenetrable deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- 9× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 12× Refill your hand
- 5× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 10× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
Best cards for Smaug the Impenetrable
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Evasion that does NOT target or attach — for a commander your own auras and equipment cannot legally touch
- Glaring Spotlight1 mana
- Cultist of the Absolute1 mana
- Inquisitorial Rosette2 mana
- Predators' Hour2 mana
- Crash Through1 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Falthis, Shadowcat Familiar3 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
- Impact Tremors2 mana
- Mount Doom0 mana
- Shivan Gorge0 mana
- Coruscation Mage2 mana
- Descent into Avernus3 mana
- Ramunap Ruins0 mana
- Agate Instigator2 mana
- Black Mage's Rod2 mana
Combos with Smaug the Impenetrable
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Smaug the Impenetrable is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Smaug the Impenetrable + Mayhem Devil8,157 decks
- Smaug the Impenetrable + Pyrohemia5,132 decks
- Smaug the Impenetrable + Pestilence4,841 decks
- Smaug the Impenetrable + Chain Lightning4,405 decks
- Smaug the Impenetrable + Havoc Jester1,180 decks
- Smaug the Impenetrable + Last Laugh733 decks