Frodo/Sam by Arcan1s

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This Abzan Food-token deck helmed by the partner pair Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant is a grindy value engine that converts an ever-growing Food supply into card advantage, mana, and life, then weaponizes that life and those tokens into a drain finish. The core loop is token multiplication: Sam, Loyal Attendant creates a Food each combat, and a stacked suite of multipliers - Anointed Procession, Parallel Lives, Mondrak, Glory Dominus, Peregrin Took, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, and Academy Manufactor - turns each Food into a flood of Clues, Treasures, and Squirrels. The deck wins through repeated lifegain-drain triggers (Sanguine Bond, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, Mirkwood Bats, Kambal, Profiteering Mayor) backed by commander damage from Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit's Ring-tempted attacks and oversized threats like Feasting Hobbit and Banquet Guests. It's a midrange inevitability deck that out-values opponents, then closes with reach that ignores combat.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Anointed Procession
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Black Market Connections
  • 1 Boseiju, Who Endures
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Delney, Streetwise Lookout
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Enduring Vitality
  • 1 Enlightened Tutor
  • 1 Esper Sentinel
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Experimental Confectioner
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Flawless Maneuver
  • 1 Force of Vigor
  • 6 Forest
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Hazel's Brewmaster
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Hushwood Verge
  • 1 Indatha Triome
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mondrak, Glory Dominus
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Nature's Lore
  • 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
  • 1 Ninja Pizza
  • 1 Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
  • 1 Ocelot Pride
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Parallel Lives
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 5 Plains
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Smothering Tithe
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Teferi's Protection
  • 1 Temple Garden
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Tippy-Toe, Terrific Partner
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Undergrowth Stadium
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voice of Victory
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth
  • 1 Ygra, Eater of All