Frodo and Sam by user2784243

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This Abzan midrange deck is commanded by the partner pairing of Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant. The game plan revolves around generating Food tokens every combat step, reducing their activation costs, and using consistent 3-life gains to trigger Frodo's Ring tempt ability and draw extra cards. As the board develops, token amplifiers like Academy Manufactor and Peregrin Took rapidly compound resources, enabling explosive lifegain and token generation. The deck closes games through asymmetric board wipes like The Battle of Bywater, life-total victories with Felidar Sovereign, wide overruns via Moonshaker Cavalry or Overwhelming Stampede, and infinite token loops using Rosie Cotton of South Lane with Scurry Oak. High-efficiency spot removal answers key opposing threats while the engine grinds out overwhelming value.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assemble the Entmoot
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call for Unity
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exemplar of Light
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Felidar Sovereign
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Graypelt Refuge
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Moonshaker Cavalry
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Motivated Pony
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noxious Newt
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Overwhelming Stampede
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Savvy Hunter
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Scurry Oak
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Vraska Joins Up
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Witch-king of Angmar
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery