Food and Fellowship: Upgraded by pjthedj

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan Food and lifegain midrange strategy led by the partner pairing of Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit. The early game focuses on deploying both commanders to establish a repeatable resource loop: Sam provides a free Food token each combat and reduces Food activation costs to one mana, which allows Frodo to reliably attack, trigger Ring temptations, and draw cards. In the midgame, the deck leverages accumulated Food artifacts and life gains through synergistic payoffs such as Treebeard, Gracious Host, Academy Manufactor, and Tireless Provisioner. The deck closes out games around Turn 8 by turning small Halflings into massive trample threats, converting token generation into table-wide drain with Mirkwood Bats, or securing an alternate win condition through Felidar Sovereign. Its main limitations stem from a lack of unconditional tutors, reliance on combat steps, and vulnerability to artifact and creature sweepers.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 An Unexpected Party // At the Door
• 1 Aragorn, Company Leader
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Assemble the Entmoot
• 1 Bake into a Pie
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Beorn, Reluctant Host // Till and Tend
• 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Celebrate the Mountain-king
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Colossus of Akros
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Crypt Incursion
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dancing from Dark to Dawn
• 1 Dawn of Hope
• 1 Decanter of Endless Water
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Felidar Sovereign
• 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
• 1 Flaming Fist
• 4 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frenzied Baloth
• 1 Frodo Baggins
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
• 1 Garruk's Uprising
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Giant Opportunity
• 1 Gigantic Big Bear
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Graypelt Refuge
• 1 Gyome, Master Chef
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
• 1 Majestic Myriarch
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Mirkwood
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mirkwood Pathmaker
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
• 3 Plains
• 1 Pristine Talisman
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Radagast of Rhosgobel
• 1 Rapacious Guest
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Scattered Groves
• 1 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Shire Shirriff
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spectra Ward
• 1 Sterling Grove
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 3 Swamp
• 1 The Notary Hobbits
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Trading Post
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Wandering Archaic // Explore the Vastlands
• 1 Wedding Ring
• 1 Witch of the Moors
• 1 Woodland Cemetery