Sméagol, Helpful Guide drives a landfall engine by triggering the Ring temptation through a steady stream of creature deaths, then converting those Ring temptations into land ramp that fuels explosive token generators and damage multipliers like Ob Nixilis, the Fallen and Scute Swarm. The deck sustains its sacrifice loop through self-replacing creatures, reanimation effects, and cards that generate fresh bodies each turn, ensuring a creature dies virtually every turn cycle. This critical mass of lands and creatures culminates in wide combat finishes, overwhelming life drain through death and landfall triggers, or a massive Torment of Hailfire powered by the accumulated mana and resources.

Sméagol, Helpful Guide - What has it got in its nasty pocketses?! decklist

• 8× Forest
• 7× Swamp
• Command Tower
• Syr Konrad, the Grim
• Crop Rotation
• Sakura-Tribe Elder
• Skullclamp
• Torment of Hailfire
• Nature's Claim
• Phyrexian Arena
• Bloodghast
• Field of the Dead
• Reanimate
• Cabal Coffers
• Tainted Wood
• Shizo, Death's Storehouse
• Awakening Zone
• Llanowar Wastes
• Rampaging Baloths
• Avenger of Zendikar
• Ophiomancer
• Toxic Deluge
• Diabolic Intent
• Evolutionary Leap
• Victimize
• Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• Phyrexian Tower
• Assassin's Trophy
• Overgrown Tomb
• Verdant Catacombs
• Altar of Dementia
• Blood Pet
• Deadly Rollick
• Rise of the Dark Realms
• Yawgmoth, Thran Physician
• Woodland Cemetery
• Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
• Feed the Swarm
• Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
• Scute Swarm
• Agadeem's Awakening // Agadeem, the Undercrypt
• Bloodchief Ascension
• Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
• Infernal Grasp
• Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
• Morbid Opportunist
• Deathcap Glade
• Black Market Connections
• Haywire Mite
• Breach the Multiverse
• The One Ring
• Gollum, Patient Plotter
• Surrak and Goreclaw
• Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
• Tireless Provisioner
• Call of the Ring
• Witch-king of Angmar
• 9× Nazgûl
• Rise of the Witch-king
• The Ring Goes South
• Dúnedain Rangers
• Claim the Precious
• Sam's Desperate Rescue
• Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
• Chthonian Nightmare
• Wight of the Reliquary
• Disciple of Freyalise // Garden of Freyalise
• Boggart Trawler // Boggart Bog
• Springheart Nantuko
• Accursed Marauder
• Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
• Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• Blasphemous Edict
• Wastewood Verge
• Earthbender Ascension
• Cauldron of Essence
• Tom, Bert, and William
• Inside Information