Smaug the Magnificent sits at the center of a Treasure accumulation engine, using his upkeep trigger and a host of Dragon synergies and artifact-generating effects to amass a growing hoard, then attacking to deal damage equal to the number of Treasures controlled. Cards like Goldspan Dragon and Xorn multiply Treasure production exponentially, while Fiery Emancipation can triple Smaug's combat damage trigger into a lethal one-shot. The deck also pursues alternate angles through Hellkite Tyrant's artifact theft win condition and Alchemist's Talent's level-three ability, which punishes opponents for every Treasure-fueled spell cast, letting the deck convert its hoard into pressure both in and out of combat.

Smaug the Magnificent decklist

• Abrade
• Academy Manufactor
• Alchemist's Talent
• Atsushi, the Blazing Sky
• Big Score
• Blasphemous Act
• Bolt Bend
• Bonehoard Dracosaur
• Burn, Burn, Tree and Fern
• Cavern-Hoard Dragon
• Chaos Warp
• Crime Novelist
• Demand Answers
• Descent into Avernus
• Desolation of Smaug
• Dragon's Hoard
• Dragonlord's Servant
• Dragonmaster Outcast
• Dragonspeaker Shaman
• Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
• Fiery Emancipation
• Fomori Vault
• Fountainport
• Gadrak, the Crown-Scourge
• Ganax, Astral Hunter
• Gandalf, Spark Starter
• Generous Plunderer
• Goldlust Triad
• Goldspan Dragon
• Great Furnace
• Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• Hedron Detonator
• Hell to Pay
• Hellkite Tyrant
• Ingenious Artillerist
• Inspiring Statuary
• Maelstrom of the Spirit Dragon
• Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• Mines of Moria
• 25× Mountain
• Myriad Landscape
• Panharmonicon
• Pirate's Pillage
• Professional Face-Breaker
• Rain of Riches
• Rapacious Dragon
• Return the Favor
• Rogue's Passage
• Ruby Medallion
• Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant
• Scourge of the Throne
• Seize the Spoils
• Smaug, the Great Calamity
• Sol Ring
• Spinerock Knoll
• Spiteful Banditry
• Swashbuckler Extraordinaire
• The Misty Mountains Cold
• The Reaver Cleaver
• There and Back Again
• Thrill of Possibility
• Treasure Vault
• Unexpected Windfall
• War Room
• Weftstalker Ardent
• Witty Roastmaster
• Xorn
• Wild Magic Surge
• Untimely Malfunction
• Spit Flame
• Welding Sparks
• Warmaker Gunship
• The Brothers' War
• Bottle-Cap Blast
• Cathartic Pyre