Hobbits by smwixted

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 24

Deck overview

This Abzan deck utilizes the partner pairing of Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant to construct a resilient, value-oriented engine centered on Food tokens and life gain triggers. Sam provides consistent turn-by-turn Food generation and cost reduction, which reliably fuels Frodo's attack trigger to advance the Ring tempts you mechanic and draw extra cards. The deck leverages life gain synergies with creatures such as Rosie Cotton of South Lane, Aragorn and Arwen, Wed, and Pizza Face, Gastromancer to build tall and wide boards over time. Interaction is focused on creature removal and creature sweepers like Vanquish the Horde, supplemented by targeted protection tricks. While the engine operates smoothly in the midgame, the deck is constrained by a low land count with multiple tapped lands, lack of instant-speed noncreature interaction, and a slow, combat-dependent clock that requires multiple turns to close out 4-player pods.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Aragorn and Arwen, Wed
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Attercop
• 1 Awe Strike
• 1 Bilbo's Ring
• 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
• 1 Bill the Pony
• 1 Birnin Zana Plaza
• 1 Bleeding Effect
• 1 Bootleggers' Stash
• 1 Celestial Flare
• 1 Chalice of Life // Chalice of Death
• 1 Changeling Wayfinder
• 1 Condemn
• 1 Danitha, New Benalia's Light
• 1 Dark Endurance
• 1 Diabolic Tutor
• 1 Eastfarthing Farmer
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Fisk Tower
• 1 Foggy Bottom Swamp
• 7 Forest
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Galadriel, Gift-Giver
• 1 Gandalf, White Rider
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Gollum, Scheming Guide
• 1 Graypelt Refuge
• 1 Grove of the Guardian
• 1 Hobbit's Sting
• 1 Hoofprints of the Stag
• 1 Ikra Shidiqi, the Usurper
• 1 Illegitimate Business
• 1 Inside Information
• 1 Insomnia, Crown City
• 1 Jungle Hollow
• 1 Landroval, Horizon Witness
• 1 Leonardo, Cutting Edge
• 1 Lightfoot Technique
• 1 Many Partings
• 1 Maximum Overdrive
• 1 Mephitic Ooze
• 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
• 1 Mirkwood
• 1 Nazgûl
• 1 Old Thrush
• 1 Ori, Plate Stacker
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 1 Pirate Peddlers
• 1 Pizza Face, Gastromancer
• 7 Plains
• 1 Polluted Bonds
• 1 Purging Stormbrood // Absorb Essence
• 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
• 1 Radiant Lotus
• 1 Reaping Willow
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Sever Soul
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starfall Invocation
• 1 Stomped by the Foot
• 1 Stream of Life
• 1 Student of Ojutai
• 1 Suffer the Past
• 7 Swamp
• 1 The Fire Nation Drill
• 1 The Notary Hobbits
• 1 The Ring Goes South
• 1 Thriving Moor
• 1 Trailblazer's Boots
• 1 Trollhide
• 1 Unexpected Fangs
• 1 Unlucky Cabbage Merchant
• 1 Vanquish the Horde
• 1 Vayne's Treachery
• 1 W'Kabi, Shield of the Nation
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Witherbloom Apprentice
• 1 You Cannot Pass!