Merry & Pippin by salamijohn

Format: Commander

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

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Abzan Food/token deck uses Merry and Pippin as an engine: Pippin generates Food and can give your team +3/+3 and haste, while Merry turns artifact tokens into lifelinking Soldiers. The primary plan is to flood the board with Foods, Rats, Saprolings, and Squirrels, then convert them into a lethal swing via Pippin's pump or drain effects like Mirkwood Bats. A compact infinite combo with Experimental Confectioner, Nuka-Cola Vending Machine, and Peregrin Took creates endless tokens, with multiple payoffs. Recursion and protection let the deck rebuild after wipes, making it a resilient midrange token strategy.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
• 1 Binding the Old Gods
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deadly Rollick
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Experimental Confectioner
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Gleaming Splendor
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Hobbit's Sting
• 1 Idol of Oblivion
• 1 Inspiring Leader
• 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
• 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
• 1 Many Partings
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Motivated Pony
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Nature's Lore
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Ninja Pizza
• 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
• 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
• 1 Pacifism
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
• 6 Plains
• 1 Rapacious Guest
• 1 Return to Nature
• 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 Savvy Hunter
• 1 Second Harvest
• 1 Slip On the Ring
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sorin of House Markov // Sorin, Ravenous Neonate
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 6 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Teferi's Protection
• 1 Temple of Malady
• 1 Tendershoot Dryad
• 1 The Arkenstone // Seek the Heart
• 1 The Battle of Bywater
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trail of Crumbs
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Wastewood Verge
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams