Frodo and Sam by DJ_PeePants

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan midrange synergy build piloted by the partner pair Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant. The game plan revolves around generating Food tokens every turn via Sam, discounting their activation cost, and cracking them to trigger lifegain synergies. Gaining 3 life enables Frodo's attack trigger to advance the Ring tempt mechanic, turning Frodo into an evasive card advantage engine by Turn 5. The deck converts Food tokens and lifegain into lethal win conditions using aristocrat drain pieces like Mirkwood Bats and Nadier's Nightblade, or massive combat threats like Treebeard, Gracious Host, Feasting Hobbit, and Banquet Guests. Supported by a robust suite of protective spells including Clever Concealment and Heroic Intervention, the deck steadily grinds out table-wide card advantage and closes games around Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Anointed Procession
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Bag End Banquet
• 1 Bake into a Pie
• 1 Bala Ged Recovery // Bala Ged Sanctuary
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Belladonna Took
• 1 Bilbo's Ring
• 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
• 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Campsite Cuisine
• 1 Caretaker's Talent
• 1 Cauldron Familiar
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Clever Concealment
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1 Enlightened Tutor
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Fabled Passage
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
• 1 Flowering of the White Tree
• 6 Forest
• 1 Frodo Baggins
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Gyome, Master Chef
• 1 Heroic Feast
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Hobbit's Sting
• 1 Hushwood Verge
• 1 Inherited Envelope
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kitchen Finks
• 1 Many Partings
• 1 Midnight Snack
• 1 Mirkwood
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Motivated Pony
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Nadier's Nightblade
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
• 1 Open the Armory
• 1 Open the Gates
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Parallel Lives
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 4 Plains
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Rapacious Guest
• 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
• 1 Revive the Shire
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
• 1 Samwise Gamgee
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Second Harvest
• 1 Shelob's Ambush
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Shortcut to Mushrooms
• 1 Slip On the Ring
• 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sting, Bilbo's Sword
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Supper for Spiders
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Troop of Ponies
• 1 Vault of Champions
• 1 Well-Worn Spatula
• 1 Witch's Oven
• 1 Woodland Cemetery