Sam & Frodo by roneron

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Abzan deck centers on the partner commanders Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit, creating a resilient midrange engine built on Food tokens, lifegain, and combat attrition. Frodo curves out on Turn 2, followed by Sam on Turn 3, generating immediate Food tokens and reducing their activation cost. Cracking Food enables Frodo's combat triggers, advancing the Ring tempt mechanic and drawing cards every turn cycle. The 99 amplifies this foundation through token multipliers like Academy Manufactor and Peregrin Took, alongside mana converters like Jaheira, Friend of the Forest and Night of the Sweets' Revenge. The deck leverages asymmetric board wipes, including The Battle of Bywater and Dusk // Dawn, to clear large opposing creatures while leaving its small Halflings intact. It closes games around Turn 8 through wide combat pumps or crushing aristocrat drain from Mirkwood Bats and Agent of the Iron Throne.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Astrid Peth
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Barad-dûr
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
• 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
• 1 Bristlebud Farmer
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Camellia, the Seedmiser
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cauldron Familiar
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cruel Tutor
• 1 Dawn of Hope
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Elanor Gardner
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farewell
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
• 3 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Generous Ent
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Gingerbread Cabin
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
• 1 Greta, Sweettooth Scourge
• 1 Hazel's Brewmaster
• 1 Horizon Canopy
• 1 Hurska Sweet-Tooth
• 1 Indatha Triome
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
• 1 Lembas
• 1 Llanowar Wastes
• 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
• 1 Many Partings
• 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Minas Tirith
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
• 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
• 1 Overgrown Farmland
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
• 4 Plains
• 1 Prize Pig
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Rapacious Guest
• 1 Restless Cottage
• 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 Scattered Groves
• 1 Settle the Wreckage
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender
• 1 Talisman of Unity
• 1 The Battle of Bywater
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The Grey Havens
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Ring Goes South
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trail of Crumbs
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Witch's Oven
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Ygra, Eater of All