Food Without Fellowship by cmcnaughtan

Format: Commander

Commander: Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant

Bracket: 3

Deck overview

This Abzan Food/life-gain token deck is helmed by the Partner pair Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant. The core loop is generating Food tokens, sacrificing them for life, and converting that life into cards, counters, and drain through payoffs like Dawn of Hope, Well of Lost Dreams, Archangel of Thune, and Sanguine Bond. The primary win condition is the infinite Scurry Oak + Rosie Cotton of South Lane loop, which produces infinite Squirrels and +1/+1 counters, finished by Mirkwood Bats (drain), Concordant Crossroads (haste attack), or Sanguine Bond (life-gain drain). Secondary wins come from the token swarm amplified by Cathars' Crusade, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, and Crested Sunmare. The commanders are a value engine - Sam discounts Food activations and creates a Food each combat, while Frodo draws cards - but the deck's actual combo lines live entirely in the 99.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 Anguished Unmaking
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Archangel of Thune
• 1 Ash Barrens
• 1 Banquet Guests
• 1 Beast Whisperer
• 1 Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant
• 1 Birds of Paradise
• 1 Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1 Brushland
• 1 Cathars' Crusade
• 1 Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Commander's Sphere
• 1 Concordant Crossroads
• 1 Court of Grace
• 1 Crested Sunmare
• 1 Crypt Incursion
• 1 Cryptolith Rite
• 1 Cultivate
• 1 Dawn of Hope
• 1 Demonic Tutor
• 1 Dusk // Dawn
• 1 Elanor Gardner
• 1 Esper Sentinel
• 1 Essence Warden
• 1 Evolving Wilds
• 1 Exotic Orchard
• 1 Farmer Cotton
• 1 Farseek
• 1 Fell the Mighty
• 8 Forest
• 1 Fortified Village
• 1 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit
• 1 Fumigate
• 1 Gilded Goose
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Gollum, Obsessed Stalker
• 1 Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
• 1 Heroic Intervention
• 1 Inspiring Statuary
• 1 Isolated Chapel
• 1 Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
• 1 Lathiel, the Bounteous Dawn
• 1 Mentor of the Meek
• 1 Merry, Warden of Isengard
• 1 Mirkwood Bats
• 1 Mortify
• 1 Murmuring Bosk
• 1 Necroblossom Snarl
• 1 Nihil Spellbomb
• 1 Nykthos Paragon
• 1 Ozolith, the Shattered Spire
• 1 Path of Ancestry
• 1 Path to Exile
• 1 Peregrin Took
• 1 Pippin, Warden of Isengard
• 4 Plains
• 1 Pristine Talisman
• 1 Prosperous Innkeeper
• 1 Rapacious Guest
• 1 Revive the Shire
• 1 Rhys the Redeemed
• 1 Rosie Cotton of South Lane
• 1 Sam, Loyal Attendant
• 1 Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1 Sanguine Bond
• 1 Savvy Hunter
• 1 Scattered Groves
• 1 Scurry Oak
• 1 Shineshadow Snarl
• 1 Skullclamp
• 1 Smothering Tithe
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Sunpetal Grove
• 4 Swamp
• 1 Swords to Plowshares
• 1 Thalisse, Reverent Medium
• 1 Tireless Provisioner
• 1 Toski, Bearer of Secrets
• 1 Toxic Deluge
• 1 Trading Post
• 1 Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1 Well of Lost Dreams
• 1 Witch of the Moors
• 1 Woodfall Primus
• 1 Woodland Cemetery