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Smaug, Wicked Worm

Smaug, Wicked Worm

Legendary Creature — Dragon · {3}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander

Flying When Smaug enters, create X tapped Treasure tokens, where X is the number of artifacts your opponents control. Whenever you cast a spell, if mana from a Treasure was spent to cast it, you draw a card and lose 1 life.
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What Smaug, Wicked Worm actually does

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What a Smaug, Wicked Worm deck wants

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Best cards for Smaug, Wicked Worm

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

  1. Secret Tunnel0 mana
  2. Dragon Tempest2 mana
  3. Crash Through1 mana
  4. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  5. Rhonas's Monument3 mana
  6. Glaring Spotlight1 mana
  7. Legion Loyalist1 mana
  8. Frantic Confrontation1 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  2. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  3. Eldrazi Confluence4 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
  2. Greedy Freebooter1 mana
  3. Impulsive Pilferer1 mana
  4. Academy Manufactor3 mana
  5. Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
  6. Magda, Brazen Outlaw2 mana
  7. Magda, the Hoardmaster2 mana
  8. Reckless Lackey1 mana

A cheap spell of any kind — casts per turn are the engine for an unrestricted cast trigger

  1. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  2. Walking Ballista0 mana
  3. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  4. Mishra's Bauble0 mana
  5. Profane Tutor0 mana
  6. Sol Talisman0 mana
  7. Tormod's Crypt0 mana
  8. Urza's Bauble0 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Bloodfell Caves0 mana
  4. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  5. Lotus Field0 mana
  6. Mortuary Mire0 mana
  7. Rakdos Carnarium0 mana
  8. Raucous Theater0 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  2. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  3. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  4. Castle Embereth0 mana
  5. Fire Nation Palace0 mana
  6. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  7. Dragon Tempest2 mana
  8. Hexing Squelcher2 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Pashalik Mons3 mana
  2. Endless Ranks of the Dead4 mana
  3. Siege-Gang Lieutenant4 mana
  4. Trendy Circus Pirate0 mana
  5. Myr Battlesphere7 mana
  6. Anax, Hardened in the Forge3 mana
  7. Andúril, Flame of the West3 mana
  8. Chandra, Acolyte of Flame3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  2. Defile1 mana
  3. Tragic Slip1 mana
  4. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  5. Terminate2 mana
  6. Fatal Push1 mana
  7. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  8. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  5. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  6. Innocent Blood1 mana
  7. Breaking Point3 mana
  8. Coils of the Medusa2 mana

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