Frodo & Sam 420 by Nick_Mikhailov

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 39

Deck overview

This Abzan midrange deck utilizes the partner pairing of Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit to build a low-cost, self-sustaining resource engine. Sam generates Food tokens each turn and reduces their activation cost to {1}, while Frodo leverages the resulting lifegain to advance the Ring mechanic, gain unblockability, and draw extra cards on attack. The deck converts these artifact tokens into high board presence, mana generation, and damage through key payoffs like Treebeard, Gracious Host, Mirkwood Bats, Peregrin Took, and Night of the Sweets' Revenge. Its interaction package features efficient exile removal alongside one-sided board wipes like The Battle of Bywater and Dusk // Dawn, which destroy large opposing threats while sparing small Halflings. The deck steadily grinds out advantages before closing through large trample attacks or direct aristocrat drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Bastion Protector
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dark Tutelage
• 1 Dawn of Hope
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Elanor Gardner
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 7 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
• 1 Gyome, Master Chef
• 1 Heroic Feast
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lembas
• 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
• 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1 Many Partings
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Midnight Snack
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Ninja Pizza
• 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
• 1 Orchard Strider
• 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 Reprieve
• 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 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Shire Shirriff
• 1 Shire Terrace
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The Battle of Bywater
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trading Post
• 1 Trail of Crumbs
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 War of the Last Alliance
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Woodland Cemetery