Frodo by ClemFandango

Format: Commander

Creator: ClemFandango

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Abzan deck centers on Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant to orchestrate a resilient Food and lifegain engine. Deployed on Turns 2 and 3, the commanders establish early card velocity and artifact stockpiles by reducing Food activation costs and triggering Ring-bearer draws. In the midgame, the deck pivots into compounding board states via token multipliers like Peregrin Took and lifegain amplifiers such as Treebeard, Gracious Host. Elimination is achieved through a mix of unblockable combat pressure and passive group drain from Mirkwood Bats and Nadier's Nightblade. Supported by premier spot removal in black and white, the deck controls key threats while steadily accumulating incremental card and life advantage.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Forum of Amity
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Generous Ent
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Motivated Pony
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prize Pig
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Roads Go Ever, Ever On
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savvy Hunter
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shire Shirriff
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stew the Coneys
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Ring Goes South
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Titan's Grave
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 War of the Last Alliance
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery