Sam Hobbit plus lotr by Shanks69

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 33

Deck overview

This deck leverages the partner pairing of Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant to operate a resilient Abzan Food and lifegain engine. Sam provides regular Food tokens and reduces their activation cost to a single mana, which reliably fuels Frodo's combat trigger to advance the Ring Temptation and draw cards. The deck weaponizes lifegain and token generation using payoffs like Treebeard, Gracious Host, Mirkwood Bats, and Gollum, Obsessed Stalker. An asymmetric removal suite featuring The Battle of Bywater, Fell the Mighty, and Dusk // Dawn breaks parity by destroying high-power opposing blockers while leaving small Halflings intact. Defensive spells like Boromir, Warden of the Tower, Heroic Intervention, and Mithril Coat safeguard the board against disruption as the deck closes out games through evasive combat and widespread drain.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Anguished Unmaking
  • 1 Bag End Banquet
  • 1 Bastion Protector
  • 1 Beast Within
  • 1 Belladonna Took
  • 1 Bilbo's Gambit
  • 1 Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator
  • 1 Bilbo, Unexpected Adventurer
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Boromir, Warden of the Tower
  • 1 Brushland
  • 1 Call of the Ring
  • 1 Canopy Vista
  • 1 Castle Ardenvale
  • 1 Cavern of Souls
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Dawn of a New Age
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Dusk // Dawn
  • 1 Eagles of the North
  • 1 Elanor Gardner
  • 1 Evolving Wilds
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Farmer Cotton
  • 1 Fell the Mighty
  • 1 Field-Tested Frying Pan
  • 3 Forest
  • 1 Fortified Village
  • 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
  • 1 Frodo, Sauron's Bane
  • 1 Galadriel's Dismissal
  • 1 Gilded Goose
  • 1 Gleaming Splendor
  • 1 Gnashing of Teeth
  • 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
  • 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hobbit Hole
  • 1 Horizon Canopy
  • 1 Isolated Chapel
  • 1 Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
  • 1 Many Partings
  • 1 Meriadoc Brandybuck
  • 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
  • 1 Minas Morgul, Dark Fortress
  • 1 Minas Tirith
  • 1 Mirkwood Bats
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Motivated Pony
  • 1 Murmuring Bosk
  • 1 Of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Orcrist, Goblin-cleaver
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Peregrin Took
  • 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
  • 9 Plains
  • 1 Prize Pig
  • 1 Rapacious Guest
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Reprieve
  • 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
  • 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
  • 1 Samwise Gamgee
  • 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
  • 1 Sanguine Bond
  • 1 Saradoc, Master of Buckland
  • 1 Scattered Groves
  • 1 Shineshadow Snarl
  • 1 Sméagol, Helpful Guide
  • 1 Sunpetal Grove
  • 1 Supper for Spiders
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Terramorphic Expanse
  • 1 The Battle of Bywater
  • 1 The Black Gate
  • 1 The Gaffer
  • 1 The Notary Hobbits
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 The Sackville-Bagginses
  • 1 The Shire
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Woodland Cemetery
  • 1 Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth