Hobbit Precon - Smaug, Wicked Worm
deck Smaug, Wicked Worm
Aug 13, 2026
"Bilbo had heard tell and sing of dragon-hoards before, but the splendour, the lust, the glory of such treasure had never yet come home to him. His heart was filled and pierced with enchantment and with the desire of dwarves; and he gazed motionless, almost forgetting the frightful guardian, at the gold beyond price and count." - J.R.R Tolkien, The Hobbit.
This is a rakdos treasure deck designed to be as explosive as a dragon's breath, able to generate a lot of mana/treasures in one turn and immediately make use of them to destroy your opponents. Designed to feel like a real precon, this deck prioritises flavour and power in equal measure, missing certain cards that would doubtlessly be quite powerful because they didn't fit with the deck and also so that players would have room to upgrade the precon. Additionally, cards from the hobbit set were prioritised over non-hobbit cards and cards from sets outside the high fantasy genre were avoided unless they could reasonably be reprinted with fitting art. This deck's gameplan is to spend the beginning creating some treasures and a minor value piece which, after playing Smaug, can snowball very quickly into the powerful cards that run at the top end of this deck. Greed, vanity and power are the components that make up Smaug as a character so those are the feeling I tried to evoke with this deck.
