Frodo Test by ClemFandango

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 31

Deck overview

This Abzan deck, led by Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant, is a synergistic Food aristocrats and token combo deck. The core strategy establishes early resource engines by using Sam to generate Food tokens and reduce activation costs, enabling Frodo to trigger Ring tempts and draw extra cards each turn. As the game develops, the deck accumulates Food, life, and tokens to fuel midgame value engines like Academy Manufactor, Peregrin Took, and The Gaffer. The deck transitions into a lethal threat using the infinite combo between Rosie Cotton of South Lane and Scurry Oak, which creates an arbitrarily large Squirrel army to overwhelm opponents in combat, or through aristocrat drain with Mirkwood Bats and Nadier's Nightblade. Supported by a premier Abzan removal suite featuring Swords to Plowshares and Assassin's Trophy, the deck excels at grinding long-term value, though it remains vulnerable to board sweepers due to a lack of instant-speed protection.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Bag End Banquet
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Belladonna Took
• 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
• 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cauldron Familiar
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Claim the Precious
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Deceptive Landscape
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Experimental Confectioner
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Fell the Mighty
• 8 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Forum of Amity
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Generous Ent
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Many Partings
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Nadier's Nightblade
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 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 Prize Pig
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Rapacious Guest
• 1 Revive the Shire
• 1 Roads Go Ever, Ever On
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
• 1 Samwise Gamgee
• 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Scattered Groves
• 1 Scurry Oak
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Stew the Coneys
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Temple Garden
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The Ring Goes South
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Titan's Grave
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Viscera Seer
• 1 War of the Last Alliance
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Woodland Cemetery