Elevensies by GrgMag

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This Abzan deck pairs Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant to operate a synergistic Food and lifegain engine. The early game focuses on deploying both partner commanders to generate free Food tokens every combat step while reducing activation costs. Gaining life unlocks Frodo's Ring-bearer ability, advancing the Ring track to provide unblockable evasion and continuous card draw on attack. The mid game expands token production through Halfling allies like Peregrin Took, Samwise Gamgee, and Merry, Warden of Isengard. The deck transitions into lethal pressure around Turn 6 by converting Food generation and lifegain into decisive swings using Treebeard, Gracious Host, Mirkwood Bats, Sanguine Bond, or overrun activations from Pippin, Warden of Isengard. With tailored low-power sweepers like The Battle of Bywater, the deck cleanses opposing boards while keeping its Halfling army intact to close games by Turn 8.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Ash Barrens
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo's Ring
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Chromatic Lantern
  • 1 Claim the Precious
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commander's Sphere
  • 1 Crypt Incursion
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Essence Warden
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Farseek
  • 1 Feasting Hobbit
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
  • 1 Flowering of the White Tree
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo Baggins
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
  • 1 Fumigate
  • 1 Gandalf the White
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Go for the Throat
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Graypelt Refuge
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Hobbit's Sting
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Mentor of the Meek
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mortify
  • 1 Necroblossom Snarl
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Path of Ancestry
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Pristine Talisman
  • 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
  • 1 Rampant Growth
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Revive the Shire
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Samwise the Stouthearted
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Scoured Barrens
  • 1 Second Harvest
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Shire Terrace
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soul's Attendant
  • 1 Sting, Bilbo's Sword
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 3 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Tireless Provisioner
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Trailblazer's Boots
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 War of the Last Alliance
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth