Frodo & Sam by user5983251

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 37

Deck overview

This Abzan Commander deck is spearheaded by the partner pairing of Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant. The primary strategy focuses on assembling a resilient Food-based resource engine. Dense 1-mana ramp ensures Sam enters on turn 2, generating guaranteed Food tokens and discounting their activation costs so Frodo can attack on curve, trigger the Ring, and draw cards. The deck converts excess Food and artifact tokens into immense mana using Jaheira, Friend of the Forest and Night of the Sweets' Revenge, while draining opponents through aristocrat payoffs like Mirkwood Bats, Agent of the Iron Throne, and Kambal, Profiteering Mayor. It also houses a compact, infinite two-card creature combo with Rosie Cotton of South Lane and Basking Broodscale. Backed by top-tier Abzan spot removal and asymmetric sweepers, the deck steadily outvalues the table before closing the game around turn 7.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Apothecary White
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astrid Peth
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Basking Broodscale
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dawn's Truce
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Dragon-Cursed Halls
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Elvish Mystic
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Confectioner
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Fauna Shaman
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 4 Forest
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Fyndhorn Elves
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Ginger, Queen of Sweets
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Llanowar Elves
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Michelangelo, the Heart
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mutagen Man, Living Ooze
  • 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Savvy Hunter
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul Shatter
  • 1 Stardew Valley
  • 1 Stroke of Midnight
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Sylvan Library
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Cabbage Merchant
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tippy-Toe, Terrific Partner
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Turbulent Moor
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Unexplained Absence
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Windswept Heath
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth