Frodo and Sam by Breeze22

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Abzan deck utilizes partner commanders Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant to operate a resilient Food-based value engine. Sam provides consistent Food tokens and discounts their activation cost, ensuring Frodo reliably triggers the Ring Temptation and draws an extra card every combat step. The 99 features deep tribal and token synergies with Halflings such as Peregrin Took, Samwise Gamgee, and Rosie Cotton of South Lane. As the game transitions into the midgame, the deck converts incremental lifegain and artifact generation into game-ending pressure through scaling beaters like Treebeard, Gracious Host and Banquet Guests, or table-wide burn via Mirkwood Bats. Supported by efficient single-target removal, asymmetric sweepers that spare low-power creatures, and robust card draw engines like The One Ring, the deck maintains steady board presence while grinding down all three opponents through incremental combat and drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Belladonna Took
• 1 Bilbo's Deadly Slice
• 1 Bilbo's Ring
• 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Elanor Gardner
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Fell the Mighty
• 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
• 8 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Graypelt Refuge
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Motivated Pony
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
• 4 Plains
• 1 Pristine Talisman
• 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 Scoured Barrens
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Shire Shirriff
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Supper for Spiders
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The Battle of Bywater
• 1 The Eagles Are Coming!
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Woodland Cemetery