Hero card

Smaug the Magnificent

Legendary Creature - Dragon

PayoffThe more of what it needs is on the battlefield, the stronger it gets: the deck has to feed it a lot

Needs: Treasure

Gives: Artifacts, Flyers, Landfall

In 8% of today's winning lists

Build a deck with Smaug the Magnificent as the hero

Makes it work

Sarkhan, Dragon Ascendant · Magda, the Hoardmaster · The Sackville-Bagginses · The Misty Mountains Cold · Greedy Freebooter · Discerning Financier · Gold Rush · Fake Your Own Death

Benefits from it

Momo, Friendly Flier · Twinmaw Stormbrood · Obsessive Pursuit · Lathliss, Dragon Queen · Confessor's Bindings · Rent Is Due · Caustic Exhale

Winning decks play them together

Biotech Specialist · Magmatic Hellkite · Wolverine, Fierce Fighter · Clarion Conqueror · Nova Hellkite · Callous Inspector

Use instead if you don't have it

Decadent Dragon · Harried Dronesmith · Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar · Flamekin Gildweaver · Stormsplitter · The Jolly Balloon Man

Winning decks that play it

Boros Dragon (4)

Cards in the meta that answer it

Countersculpt (Azorius Control) · Get Lost (Azorius Control) · Jeskai Revelation (4-Color Control) · Inevitable Defeat (4-Color Control)