Frodo and Sam by chickenpie393

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 35

Deck overview

This Abzan deck centers on the synergy between partner commanders Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit. Sam regularly creates Food tokens and discounts their activation cost, feeding Frodo's attack trigger to advance the Ring temptation and draw extra cards. The deck leverages this reliable engine into a potent token-based aristocrats strategy. Cards like Academy Manufactor, Peregrin Took, and Farmer Cotton multiply artifact and creature tokens, while payoffs such as Mirkwood Bats, Nadier's Nightblade, Marionette Apprentice, and Dina, Soul Steeper drain life from the entire table whenever tokens enter or leave the battlefield. In addition to direct life-drain, large threats like Treebeard, Gracious Host and Banquet Guests convert lifegain into crushing combat pressure. The deck operates smoothly with high functional redundancy and resilient recursion.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Academy Manufactor
• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Belladonna Took
• 1 Bilbo's Gambit
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blooming Marsh
• 1 Bofur, Reliable Guardian // Concerted Care
• 1 Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1 Butterbur, Bree Innkeeper
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Camellia, the Seedmiser
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Cauldron Familiar
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Concealed Courtyard
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dina, Soul Steeper
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Enlightened Confidant
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Exsanguinate
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
• 4 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
• 1 Germinate Recruits
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Graypelt Refuge
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Hobbit Hole
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
• 1 Marauding Blight-Priest
• 1 Marionette Apprentice
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 Nadier's Nightblade
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 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 Razorverge Thicket
• 1 Revive the Shire
• 1 Rogue's Passage
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
• 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Saradoc, Master of Buckland
• 1 Savvy Hunter
• 1 Scattered Groves
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Snakeskin Veil
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Starscape Cleric
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 1 Supper for Spiders
• 7 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The Eagles Are Coming!
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Umbral Collar Zealot
• 1 Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Witch's Oven
• 1 Woodland Cemetery