The Ring Tempts You by user1139024

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This Abzan Food deck is built as a life-gain value engine. Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit form a partner pair that creates Food, discounts Food activations, and turns life gain into Ring-tempt card draw. The primary plan is to multiply Food and token creation with Peregrin Took and Academy Manufactor, then convert that life into drains, card draw, and one huge combat threat. Secondary paths include an Aetherflux Reservoir finish, a Feasting Hobbit one-shot, and the Ring-tempt alt-win using Frodo, Sauron's Bane. The deck is resilient in grinding value but lacks counterspells, making it vulnerable to stack-based combo decks.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ascend from Avernus
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Bill the Pony
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper
  • 1 Call for Unity
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Darkbore Pathway // Slitherbore Pathway
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Hobbit's Sting
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Motivated Pony
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Savvy Hunter
  • 1 Shire Shirriff
  • 1 Shortcut to Mushrooms
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Supper for Spiders
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery