Food by user1547706

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This Abzan deck centers on the partner pairing of Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit to build an engine around Food tokens and lifegain triggers. Deployed early, Sam generates Food every combat and reduces activation costs to a single mana, which reliably fuels Frodo's attack trigger to advance the Ring mechanic and generate repeatable card advantage. The deck accumulates resources to establish critical onset around Turn 7 using payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Treebeard, Gracious Host, or Sanguine Bond to pressure all opponents simultaneously. While capable of an infinite kill with Bloodthirsty Conqueror and Sanguine Bond, the deck plays primarily as a fair midrange synergy list due to a lack of tutors and countermagic, winning through incremental life drain and augmented combat damage by Turn 9.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Adventurer's Inn
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Assemble the Entmoot
  • 1 Astarion, the Decadent
  • 1 Aura Shards
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Beacon of Immortality
  • 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodthirsty Conqueror
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Captain Sisay
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Enduring Tenacity
  • 1 Entish Restoration
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Ghost Quarter
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gingerbread Cabin
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Harmonize
  • 1 Heliod, Sun-Crowned
  • 1 Invoke the Divine
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mister Negative
  • 1 Moment's Peace
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Panharmonicon
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Phyrexian Arena
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Serra Avatar
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Twilight Prophet
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery