sam by user3042125

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 29

Deck overview

This Abzan deck utilizes partner commanders Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant to helm a resilient Food and lifegain aristocrats strategy. The early game establishes consistent mana and deploys both commanders by Turn 3. Starting on Turn 4, Sam generates a Food token every combat step, which is sacrificed for a single mana to trigger Frodo's Ring-tempting and card-drawing abilities. Mid-game turns scale token production through engines like Peregrin Took, Tireless Provisioner, and Academy Manufactor. The deck closes games around Turn 8 by translating token creation and sacrifice into lethal table-wide life loss using Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose, and Dina, Soul Steeper. Supported by efficient single-target exile removal, the deck grinds down opposing life totals while maintaining a healthy life buffer. It performs as a focused synergy engine that steadily out-values opponents through incremental resource advantages.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Aragorn and Arwen, Wed
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Astrid Peth
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo's Ring
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dawnbringer Cleric
  • 1 Deadly Dispute
  • 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
  • 1 Eastfarthing Farmer
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Felidar Savior
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 10 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Galadriel, Gift-Giver
  • 1 Gandalf the White
  • 1 Generous Ent
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Good-Fortune Unicorn
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lembas
  • 1 Luminous Broodmoth
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Merciless Executioner
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Nadier's Nightblade
  • 1 Orchard Strider
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 8 Plains
  • 1 Prize Pig
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Selfless Spirit
  • 1 Settle the Wreckage
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Skyclave Apparition
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stew the Coneys
  • 1 Sun Titan
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Trail of Crumbs
  • 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
  • 1 Voracious Fell Beast
  • 1 Well of Lost Dreams