Frodo and Sam by user8613821

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 34

Deck overview

This Abzan midrange deck utilizes the partner pairing of Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit to generate consistent card advantage, life total padding, and artifact token density. By discounting Food activations to a single generic mana, Sam reliably fulfills Frodo's lifegain condition on attack, advancing the Ring mechanic and generating steady card draw by Turn 4. The deck converts Food tokens into substantial utility via mana converters like Jaheira, Friend of the Forest and Night of the Sweets' Revenge, and card flow engines like The Gaffer and Peregrin Took. Rather than pursuing compact infinite combos, the list closes games around Turn 8 through wide combat overruns powered by Night of the Sweets' Revenge or Treebeard, Gracious Host, supplemented by aristocrat burn from Mirkwood Bats and Nadier's Nightblade. It maintains strong board control with efficient spot exile and asymmetric low-power board wipes.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Assassin's Trophy
• 1 Bag End Banquet
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Belladonna Took
• 1 Bilbo's Gambit
• 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Elanor Gardner
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Fell the Mighty
• 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Graypelt Refuge
• 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Many Partings
• 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 Nadier's Nightblade
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
• 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
• 4 Plains
• 1 Prize Pig
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Rapacious Guest
• 1 Revive the Shire
• 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 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The Battle of Bywater
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The Notary Hobbits
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Woodland Cemetery