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Smaug the Magnificent
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Four-mana 4/3 flying haste that deals damage equal to your Treasures on every attack and mints a Treasure each upkeep. He attacks the turn he lands, scales every turn, and demands an immediate answer. The set's premier bomb.
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Gameplay notes
The attack trigger hits ANY target — face, blockers, or planeswalkers — before blocks. Hold Treasures rather than cracking them when Smaug is your plan.
Key synergies
Sweep the board and immediately deploy Smaug with the ritual mana — he survives (Dragon) and lands on an empty battlefield with haste.
Smaug counts Treasures for attack damage and adds one per upkeep — together they hit the four-Treasure Dragon threshold while making Smaug hit harder.
The quest cheats Smaug into play directly from your hand or library — the single best hit in the set.
Smaug creates a Treasure every upkeep, so Fateful Discovery turns that recurring token production into an extra card every turn while the accumulated Treasures increase Smaug's damage.
Bard doubles Smaug's upkeep Treasure production, causing his Treasure count and attack-trigger damage to grow twice as quickly.
Equipping Smaug doubles his attack trigger, causing him to deal damage equal to your Treasure count twice and potentially remove two targets or deliver a large amount of direct damage.
Concerted Care gives Smaug hexproof and indestructible for only two mana, protecting the must-answer bomb from both targeted removal and sweepers while preserving his growing Treasure engine.
Smaug's upkeep Treasure is a free drain every turn when cracked, and both reward hoarding then spending Treasures.
Dori curves directly into Smaug and leaves behind a Treasure, so Smaug's first hasty attack immediately deals an extra damage while the Treasure can also help cast him.
Orcrist's Treasure payouts pump Smaug's attack trigger — the two build a Treasure engine that doubles as a clock.
Seek the Heart puts the set's best legendary creature directly into your hand — a tutor for your bomb.
The Warg can repeatedly create Treasures through combat damage, and every Treasure it produces increases Smaug's attack-trigger damage.
Wicked Worm can create several Treasures at once, sharply increasing Smaug the Magnificent's attack damage; those Treasures also enable Wicked Worm's card-draw trigger when spent.
Casting the Dog at the opponent's end step supplies a Treasure that untaps in time to help cast Smaug and increases the damage of his first attack trigger.