merry and pippen by gungho

Format: Commander

Commander: Pippin, Warden of Isengard and Merry, Warden of Isengard

Bracket: 2

Deck overview

This is an Abzan Food-token engine deck helmed by the partner pair Pippin, Warden of Isengard and Merry, Warden of Isengard. The primary game plan revolves around generating a critical mass of Food tokens, then converting them into card advantage, life gain, and incremental drain effects. Key payoffs include Sanguine Bond, Marauding Blight-Priest, and Nadier's Nightblade to bleed opponents while you gain life, and Peregrin Took and Academy Manufactor to multiply token production. Combat provides a secondary win via Pippin, Warden of Isengard's ability to give your team +3/+3 and haste, backed by token swarms from Adeline, Resplendent Cathar and Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit. The deck has no infinite combos, relying instead on sustained value and life-drain inevitability to close out games.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Adeline, Resplendent Cathar
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Apothecary White
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Autumn's Veil
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Brandywine Farmer
  • 1 Cauldron Familiar
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Eternal Witness
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 13 Forest
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Greta, Sweettooth Scourge
  • 1 Gyome, Master Chef
  • 1 Inspiring Statuary
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Mazirek, Kraul Death Priest
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Orim's Chant
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pawpatch Formation
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 13 Plains
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Shared Summons
  • 1 Shire Shirriff
  • 1 Silence
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Talisman of Unity
  • 1 Tippy-Toe, Terrific Partner
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Trail of Crumbs
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Welcoming Vampire