Food and Fellowship (Lord of the Rings Commander) by TrueConvictionMTG

Format: Commander

Commander: Merry, Warden of Isengard and Pippin, Warden of Isengard

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

Abzan Food/lifegain engine built to overflow the board with Food tokens and convert them into soldiers, cards, and life. The Sam/Frodo pair in the 99 works as a hidden engine, while Pippin supplies cheap Food and a hasty overrun; Merry turns artifact ETBs into lifelink Soldiers. The deck wins by accumulating enough life/token events to trigger Gollum's end-step drain, Sanguine Bond, or Mirkwood Bats, with Pippin overrun and Assemble the Entmoot as backup beatdown. It is a value deck that needs setup rather than a fast combo, aiming to close between turns ten and eleven.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Access Tunnel
• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Assemble the Entmoot
• 1 Bag End Banquet
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Call of the Ring
• 1 Canopy Vista
• 1 Chromatic Lantern
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Crypt Incursion
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dawn of Hope
• 1 Delighted Halfling
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Elanor Gardner
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Feasting Hobbit
• 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
• 4 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Ghost Quarter
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Graypelt Refuge
• 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
• 1 Harmonize
• 1 Hobbit's Sting
• 1 Horizon Canopy
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Lobelia, Defender of Bag End
• 1 Many Partings
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Minas Tirith
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Motivated Pony
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 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 Prize Pig
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Rapacious Guest
• 1 Reflecting Pool
• 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
• 3 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 The Battle of Bywater
• 1 The Gaffer
• 1 The One Ring
• 1 The Shire
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trading Post
• 1 Tranquil Thicket
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Woodfall Primus
• 1 Woodland Cemetery
• 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth