Frodo and Sam by WorkinClassPanda

Format: Commander

Creator: WorkinClassPanda

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

This Abzan deck utilizes partner commanders Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant to fuel a sustained Food token engine. The deck curves Frodo into Sam, generating free Food tokens each combat while reducing their activation costs to draw cards and tempt the Ring. As Food and creature tokens accumulate, the deck converts these game pieces into lethal table-wide life loss through aristocrat payoffs such as Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade, and Marionette Master, or through overrun attacks via Night of the Sweets' Revenge. The game plan relies on incremental card advantage and steady life totals to outlast opponents in grindy midgames. While resilient in recovering its commanders, the list lacks fast mana and dedicated tutors, which keeps its speed tied to fair turns and vulnerable to mass board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo's Ring
  • 1 Bill the Pony
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Grim Hireling
  • 1 Gumdrop Poisoner // Tempt with Treats
  • 1 Gyome, Master Chef
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Motivated Pony
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
  • 1 Stew the Coneys
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Tocasia's Welcome
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery