Frodo and Sam by chickenpie393

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Abzan deck partners Sam, Loyal Attendant with Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit to drive an engine centered on Food tokens, lifegain triggers, and group life drain. Sam creates consistent Food tokens and discounts their activation costs, enabling Frodo to attack with lifegain active, advance the Ring tempt mechanic, and draw extra cards each turn. In the mid-game, the deck accumulates tokens through versatile cards like Farmer Cotton, Tireless Provisioner, and Rosie Cotton of South Lane. The strategy closes out games by converting token creation and sacrifice into direct damage using aristocrat payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Dina, Soul Steeper, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, and Starscape Cleric, supplemented by wide combat pushes via Assemble the Entmoot and Treebeard, Gracious Host. Supported by targeted removal in Abzan colors, the list provides a resilient, synergistic casual experience.

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's Gambit
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blooming Marsh
• 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
• 1 Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cauldron Familiar
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
• 1 Germinate Recruits
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum the Abandoned
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Graypelt Refuge
• 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Kwia Vigorbloom
• 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
• 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Midnight Snack
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Orchard Strider
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
• 4 Plains
• 1 Prize Pig
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Revive the Shire
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
• 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Saradoc, Master of Buckland
• 1 Savvy Hunter
• 1 Scattered Groves
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starscape Cleric
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Supper for Spiders
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The Eagles Are Coming!
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Woodland Cemetery