Samwise Gamgee

Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant

Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")

Sacrifice three Foods: Return target historic card from your graveyard to your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Tokens

• Food

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Historic Brawl	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (4)

golgarigirl on The best card game system, …

9 months ago

A few mentioned being burned out by the concept of 'only engaging in product you like' and the Universes Beyond. I am still slowly coming to terms with Dr. Who and LOTR sliding up alongside my Magic at the table. I am not engaging myself...but I honestly kind of glaze over when they sit down at a table with me. Does anyone else do that? Someone plays a Samwise Gamgee or The Tenth Doctor and my brain does not register them as anything relevant to me until they interact with my things or a name I recognize in a meaningful way. Like, until The Tenth Doctor put three time counters on As Foretold I really could not care that he was present at all until he did that. I know the player read off his abilities when she cast him...I asked because I was unfamiliar with that entire commander set...but I kind of brushed it off for no reason I could discern. I don't think the neighboring players were doing anything more threatening at that point, but it just didn't matter. It was not part of my gameplay experience at that point. Magic is actively making me fatigued and apathetic about games I'm actively playing by adding all these extras and in realizing this I'm a little distressed about that?

enpc on Need help with Samwise Gamgee

1 year ago

I run a Saffi Eriksdotter list and there was a bit of discussion about Samwise Gamgee in Saffi when he was first spoiled.

If you wanted, you could look at coming at it from the other angle with Samwise as the commander and then use Saffi Eriksdotter + cards like Karmic Guide / Sun Titan + Blasting Station / Altar of Dementia to close the game out. The benefit in this case with Samwise as your commander is you can pair him with cards like Kuldotha Forgemaster (easy enough to tutor in green/white as it's a creature) to generate some tokens and then cheat Blasting Station into play. And the fact that Sam gives you graveyard recursion in case an opponent removes your sac outlet is nice tech.

Long term, I would also look to try and obtain an Archangel of Thune, though I appreciate that it's currently out of your price range.

SirFowler on Need help with Samwise Gamgee

1 year ago

Hey everyone! I need some help with my Samwise Gamgee deck that's listed here. I wanted to make a Samwise Gamgee deck for a while. Mostly because I was nicknamed Samwise Gamgee by some of my friends, but also because artifact/food manipulation is fun.

However, while playing the deck, I never seem quite happy with it. Whether it's not closing the game out quickly enough or just getting overwhelmed with all of the triggers that happen all at once, I just find myself kinda disappointed.

For starters, I'm not sure on the direction I want to take with this deck. Do I go with a more artifact heavy theme? Should it be more mill/reanimator? Or what about a legends matter theme that plays a bunch of sweet legends throughout Magic history? How about a mix of all of the above?

Idk how I want this deck to function. Can anyone help? Also, I'm not in a position to purchase a lot of expensive cards atm, so try not suggest anything over 5 bucks. The more pricey cards in here are just cards that I happened to obtain over the years, so it's not like it's a budget deck, but going forward I might not be able to get some cards if they're too expensive. Thanks in advance!

Monomanamaniac on Eat at Rocco's

1 year ago

So I'll be honest and say that I'm a total outsider to the food deck archetype, so I'm no expert. I'll make some suggestions of cards that I like and that excite me.

Kami of Whispered Hopes seems like a bomb and Jaheira, Friend of the Forest could turn your food into mox emeralds. Yotian Dissident Gyre Sage Incubation Druid Shalai and Hallar Three Visits

A lot of LOTR stuff would work too Peregrin Took The Shire Samwise Gamgee Sam, Loyal Attendant

I hate to suggest cuts, so I'll leave that up to you. I will say that you seem to be trying to do a lot of things, maybe think about cutting out some of the sub themes, and try to work on the top end of your curve because it's still quite high