Hobbits be eatin by vanvactort

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan Food and lifegain midrange strategy led by the partner pairing of Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit. The early game focuses on deploying both commanders to establish a self-contained engine: Sam generates Food tokens and reduces their activation cost to {1}, while Frodo attacks to advance the Ring and draw cards once you have gained life. In the midgame, the deck scales its advantage by converting Food and token generation into life drain and massive combat threats through cards like Mirkwood Bats, Treebeard, Gracious Host, and Banquet Guests. While the deck generates steady card flow and presents resilient recovery through redundant token producers, it operates at a fair, combat-focused pace and lacks instant-speed stack protection or fast infinite combo finishes.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 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 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
  • 1 Fog on the Barrow-Downs
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Generous Ent
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Graypelt Refuge
  • 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Morgul-Knife Wound
  • 1 Motivated Pony
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Orchard Strider
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prophesied End
  • 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 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Second Breakfast
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Slip On the Ring
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Syr Vondam, the Lucent
  • 1 Terminal Criticism
  • 1 Thalia, the Survivor
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Woodfall Primus