Sam and Frodo by Ovy

Format: Commander

Creator: Ovy

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 21

Deck overview

This Abzan deck is an upgraded midrange archetype helmed by Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant. Its game plan focuses on generating Food tokens, discounting their activation costs, and triggering lifegain and Ring-tempting synergies. Once the commander engine comes online on Turn 4, it leverages steady card advantage to deploy scaling threats such as Treebeard, Gracious Host and Mirkwood Bats. The deck interacts with opponents through efficient single-target removal and asymmetric board wipes like Fell the Mighty and Toxic Deluge. Because it avoids infinite combos and fast mana, it relies on accumulating value through combat and token burn over several turn cycles. Its primary vulnerabilities stem from susceptibility to board wipes and an absence of stack-based protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Assemble the Entmoot
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Belladonna Took
• 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Courier of Comestibles
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Fell the Mighty
• 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
• 8 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Generous Ent
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Graypelt Refuge
• 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Hithlain Rope
• 1 Hobbit's Sting
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Minas Tirith
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Pippin's Bravery
• 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
• 4 Plains
• 1 Prize Pig
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Rapacious Guest
• 1 Revive the Shire
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sam's Desperate Rescue
• 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
• 1 Samwise Gamgee
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Savvy Hunter
• 1 Scattered Groves
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Second Breakfast
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sting, the Glinting Dagger
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The Ring Goes South
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trading Post
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Witherbloom Charm
• 1 Woodland Cemetery