New Sam/Frodo IRL by SynCity

Format: Commander

Commander: Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Abzan Food-token deck leverages the partner commanders Sam, Loyal Attendant and Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit as a robust value engine. Sam creates a Food token each combat and reduces activation costs, while Frodo rewards life gain with the Ring tempting you and eventual card draw. The deck generates an overwhelming flood of Food and other tokens using Peregrin Took, Academy Manufactor, and Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator, which then fuel ramp via Jaheira, Friend of the Forest or Night of the Sweets' Revenge. Asymmetric-style board wipes (Expel the Interlopers, Dusk, Battle of Bywater) clear larger threats while your small token swarm survives, allowing you to push through with +1/+1 counter synergies and pump effects. The final win comes either through a go-wide combat step after Campsite Cuisine, United Front, or a massive X-spell such as Exsanguinate (via the adventure face of Stensian Sanguinist) or Debt to the Deathless.

Decklist (99 cards)

  • 1 Abandoned Air Temple
  • 1 Academy Manufactor
  • 1 An Unexpected Party // At the Door
  • 1 Andúril, Narsil Reforged
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Aragorn and Arwen, Wed
  • 1 Arwen, Weaver of Hope
  • 1 Assassin's Trophy
  • 1 Aura of Silence
  • 1 Austere Command
  • 1 Avacyn's Pilgrim
  • 1 Awaken the Woods
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Banquet Guests
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bleachbone Verge
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bountiful Promenade
  • 1 Brightclimb Pathway // Grimclimb Pathway
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Campsite Cuisine
  • 1 Caves of Koilos
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Deathcap Glade
  • 1 Debt to the Deathless
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Duty Beyond Death
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Elspeth, Sun's Champion
  • 1 Elves of Deep Shadow
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expel the Interlopers
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Fetid Heath
  • 5 Forest
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gene Pollinator
  • 1 Godless Shrine
  • 1 Golgari Charm
  • 1 Grand Crescendo
  • 1 Heaped Harvest
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Inside Information
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
  • 1 Llanowar Wastes
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Make a Stand
  • 1 Malakir Rebirth // Malakir Mire
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Monumental Henge
  • 1 Morningtide's Light
  • 1 Night of the Sweets' Revenge
  • 1 Nykthos Paragon
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Overgrown Tomb
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 3 Plains
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Requisition Raid
  • 1 Revitalizing Repast // Old-Growth Grove
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Springleaf Parade
  • 1 Squall Line
  • 2 Stensian Sanguinist // Exsanguinate
  • 1 Sunset Sarsaparilla Machine
  • 4 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The Ring Goes South
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 United Front
  • 1 Vault of Champions
  • 1 Wastewood Verge