Eleventy-one years! 🎉 by Jama26

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This deck is an Abzan Midrange engine centered on partner commanders Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant. The game plan revolves around generating Food tokens, discounting activation costs, and leveraging consistent life gain to trigger Ring temptations, draw cards, and fuel scaling aristocrat and combat payoffs. By establishing Sam and Frodo by Turn 4, the deck generates continuous card advantage and builds an escalating resource engine through token multipliers like Academy Manufactor and Peregrin Took. The deck pressures opponents through incremental life drain from Mirkwood Bats, Sheoldred, the Apocalypse, and Gollum, Obsessed Stalker, or tall combat threats via Treebeard, Gracious Host and Feasting Hobbit. An alternative instant-kill route is provided by Aetherflux Reservoir paired with Exquisite Blood. While resilient to single-target removal due to low-cost partner commanders and strong protection spells like Teferi's Protection and Heroic Intervention, the deck relies heavily on permanent-based board presence and lacks countermagic against opposing stack-based wins.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Aetherflux Reservoir
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Authority of the Consuls
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Damn
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Desolate Mire
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Exploration
  • 1 Exquisite Blood
  • 1 Exsanguinate
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Generous Gift
  • 1 Ghostly Prison
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Gollum, Riddle Master
  • 1 Grand Abolisher
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Indulging Patrician
  • 1 Inherited Envelope
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Kodama's Reach
  • 1 Kwia Vigorbloom
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Misty Rainforest
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Overgrown Farmland
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Part in Friendship
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Prize Pig
  • 1 Putrefy
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rhox Faithmender
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Savvy Hunter
  • 1 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solarium Sentry
  • 1 Sungrass Prairie
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Tainted Wood
  • 1 Talisman of Hierarchy
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 The Wind Crystal
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery