Frodo and Samwise - updated precon by user7537892

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan Food and lifegain aristocrats engine led by partner commanders Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant. The primary strategy focuses on deploying both commanders early to generate Food tokens each combat, discount their activation costs to a single mana, and trigger Frodo's Ring temptation and card draw abilities. Once a steady stream of tokens and cards is established, the deck transitions into lethal table-wide drain using payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade, and Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose. It also features powerful token multipliers like Academy Manufactor and Chatterfang, Squirrel General, as well as an infinite combo with Exquisite Blood and Sanguine Bond. Supported by efficient removal and protection spells like Heroic Intervention and Clever Concealment, the deck exerts steady mid-game pressure and reliably closes games around Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diabolic Tutor
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Confectioner
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Flare of Fortitude
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Graypelt Refuge
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Idol of Oblivion
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Midnight Snack
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Nature's Claim
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Prize Pig
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 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 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tippy-Toe, Terrific Partner
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery