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Smaug the Magnificent
Legendary Creature — Dragon · {2}{R}{R} · Red commander
What Smaug the Magnificent 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 · attackWhenever Smaug attacks, he deals damage equal to the number of Treasures you control to any target.
- Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, create a Treasure token.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · hastehaste
What a Smaug the Magnificent deck needs
Plays as combat trigger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- artifact and Treasure payoffs (it makes Treasures, Clues or Food on repeat)
- evasion and protection for the commander, and extra combats (its own attack is the engine; it has haste)
The Smaug the Magnificent deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- 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
Best cards for Smaug the Magnificent
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.
Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Goblin War Drums3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- Archetype of Aggression3 mana
- Beamtown Beatstick1 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Ajani's Anguish1 mana
- Shadowspear1 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Crush1 mana
- Umezawa's Jitte2 mana
- Titan's Presence3 mana
- Abrade2 mana
- Untimely Malfunction2 mana
- Chaos Warp3 mana
- Kozilek's Command2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Imperial Recruiter3 mana
- Dragon's Approach3 mana
- Sarkhan's Triumph3 mana
- Shield-Wall Sentinel4 mana
- Skyship Weatherlight4 mana
- Moonsilver Key2 mana
- Pattern Matcher4 mana
- Gamble1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Selective Obliteration5 mana
- Mizzium Mortars2 mana
- Delete2 mana
- Earthquake1 mana
- Apocalypse5 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
- Sticky Fingers1 mana
- Vexing Bauble1 mana
- Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty3 mana
- Adaptive Omnitool2 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
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
- Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana
Combos with Smaug the Magnificent
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Smaug the Magnificent is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Smaug the Magnificent + Obeka, Splitter Of Seconds + Aggravated Assault112 decks
- Smaug the Magnificent + Obeka, Splitter Of Seconds + Time Sieve46 decks
- Smaug the Magnificent + Bruce Banner44 decks
- Smaug the Magnificent + Raphael, Ninja Destroyer + Aggravated Assault16 decks
- Smaug the Magnificent + Raphael, Ninja Destroyer + Hellkite Charger10 decks
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