Frodo & Sam, But what about Second Breakfast? by TheIrishDrinker

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 28

Deck overview

This Abzan deck utilizes partner commanders Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant to operate a resilient Food, lifegain, and token aristocrats engine. The deck curves Frodo on Turn 2 and Sam on Turn 3, using Sam's discounted Food activation to reliably trigger Frodo's Ring temptation and card draw starting on Turn 4. The 99 is packed with token doublers, life-drain aristocrats, and mana converters like Academy Manufactor, Peregrin Took, Mirkwood Bats, and Jaheira, Friend of the Forest. Games close around Turn 8 through wide combat overruns led by Blossoming Bogbeast or Night of the Sweets' Revenge, mass drain loops via Marionette Master and Bolas's Citadel, or an infinite token combo with Rosie Cotton of South Lane and Scurry Oak. The deck offers strong recursion and universal removal, though it remains vulnerable to sweepers across extended setup windows.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Agent of the Iron Throne
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Assemble the Entmoot
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer
  • 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolas's Citadel
  • 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
  • 1 Bristlebud Farmer
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Camellia, the Seedmiser
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Deceptive Landscape
  • 1 Doubling Season
  • 1 Eclipsed Steppe
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Confectioner
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gingerbread Cabin
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Hazel of the Rootbloom
  • 1 Hazel's Brewmaster
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Marionette Master
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortality Spear
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 4 Plains
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Scurry Oak
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tear Asunder
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The Ring Goes South
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Unbreakable Formation
  • 1 Veinwitch Coven
  • 1 Vernal Fen
  • 1 Witch of the Moors
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery