Sam and Frodo bracket 3 (duplicated from Circumscizor) by rickell123

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This Abzan deck utilizes Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant to pilot a resilient Food-based aristocrats and midrange strategy. Early turns focus on accelerating mana with low-cost dorks and establishing both commanders. Sam provides a steady supply of Food tokens and reduces their activation cost to a single mana, enabling Frodo to consistently trigger the Ring tempt mechanic, gain unblockable traits, and generate card advantage upon attacking. The midgame builds a commanding token board using synergies like Peregrin Took, Academy Manufactor, and Chatterfang, Squirrel General. The deck transitions into a lethal threat around Turn 6 by turning artifact sacrifices into table-wide life loss through Mirkwood Bats and Marionette Master, or by executing massive trampling combat steps with Blossoming Bogbeast and Night of the Sweets' Revenge. A versatile interaction suite and powerful protection spells like Clever Concealment safeguard the engine through to a decisive Turn 7 victory.

Decklist (104 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Astrid Peth
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
  • 2 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Branchloft Pathway // Boulderloft Pathway
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Camellia, the Seedmiser
  • 1 Campsite Cuisine
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Carrion Feeder
  • 1 Cauldron Familiar
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Clever Concealment
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eladamri's Call
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Elspeth, Storm Slayer
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Confectioner
  • 1 Farewell
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Great Hall of the Citadel
  • 1 Hazel's Brewmaster
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Krark-Clan Ironworks
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Ori, Plate Stacker
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Restless Cottage
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Savvy Hunter
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Grey Havens
  • 1 The Mind Stone
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The Ring Goes South
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Trail of Crumbs
  • 1 Viscera Seer
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Ygra, Eater of All