Food and Fellowship LotR Only by NDyse10

Format: Commander

Creator: NDyse10

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 32

Deck overview

This Abzan deck pairs Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit to drive a resilient Food, lifegain, and token-attrition engine. The primary plan revolves around establishing both commanders early to generate free Food tokens, discount their activation costs, and trigger Ring temptations to maintain consistent card advantage. As the game develops, the deck leverages high-synergy payoffs like Treebeard, Gracious Host, Feasting Hobbit, and Banquet Guests to translate life gain and Food counts into overwhelming combat damage, while Mirkwood Bats and Sanguine Bond apply non-combat pressure. The deck features dependable mana acceleration in the 1–2 CMC slot and strong spot removal including Swords to Plowshares and Anguished Unmaking. Because it lacks tutors, the deck plays a fair, grindy midrange strategy that accumulates compounding value while protecting critical boards with Heroic Intervention and Boromir, Warden of the Tower.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Aragorn, Company Leader
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call for Unity
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Dawn of Hope
  • 1 Dawn of a New Age
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 8 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Legolas's Quick Reflexes
  • 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 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 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth