sam by user3042125

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan lifegain and token aristocrats strategy led by partner commanders Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit. The primary game plan focuses on generating Food tokens each turn, reducing their activation costs with Sam, and gaining life to trigger Frodo's Ring temptation ability for steady card draw. As the game develops, the deck leverages these Food tokens alongside token multipliers like Academy Manufactor and Peregrin Took, converting artifact creation and sacrifice into life loss for opponents through Mirkwood Bats, Dina, Soul Steeper, and Sanguine Bond. The deck features solid 1–2 CMC acceleration and flexible removal including Swords to Plowshares, Path to Exile, and Fumigate. While resilient against single-target removal thanks to cards like Selfless Spirit and Luminous Broodmoth, the deck lacks fast combo finishes and depends on sustaining an incremental engine across multiple turn cycles to drain the table.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Banishing Light
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
  • 1 Bilbo's Ring
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dawnbringer Cleric
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Eastfarthing Farmer
  • 1 Elven Passage
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faramir, Field Commander
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Galadriel, Gift-Giver
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
  • 1 Graypelt Refuge
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Ichor Wellspring
  • 1 Inspiring Overseer
  • 1 Jungle Hollow
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Lunar Convocation
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Minion Missile
  • 1 Mirkwood
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nasty End
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Orchard Strider
  • 1 Ori, Plate Stacker
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Prize Pig
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Sanguine Savior
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Mountain-king's Return
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Thraben Inspector
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Through the Forest Gate
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Voracious Fell Beast
  • 1 Warg Tactics
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Wood Elves