Frodo /-Sam Commander by user3080238

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan Food and lifegain midrange strategy led by partner commanders Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit. The game plan establishes an efficient engine early by generating Food tokens every combat with Sam, discounting Food activation costs to {1}, and gaining 3 life per turn. This lifegain triggers Frodo's Ring Tempting ability to draw extra cards and activate a wide array of Hobbit and lifegain synergies. The deck accelerates through green mana dorks and land ramp, setting up strong mid-game board presence. It leverages asymmetric board wipes like The Battle of Bywater and Dusk // Dawn to sweep opposing threats while preserving its low-power Halflings. Victory is achieved around Turn 8 through wide creature beatdown boosted by Treebeard, Gracious Host and Assemble the Entmoot, combined with table-wide life drain from Mirkwood Bats and Sanguine Bond.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assemble the Entmoot
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Bilbo's Ring
  • 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Hobbit's Sting
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pippin's Bravery
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Prize Pig
  • 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 Savvy Hunter
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Simulacrum Shaper
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Troop of Ponies
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Woodfall Primus
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery