Frodo and Sam *PRIMER*

Commander / EDH* BGW (Abzan, Junk) Casual Food Lifegain Partner Primer Tokens

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Creature (32)

• 1x Academy Manufactor
• 1x Astrid Peth
• 1x Banquet Guests
• 1x Bennie Bracks, Zoologist
• 1x Birds of Paradise
• 1x Blossoming Bogbeast
• 1x Boromir, Warden of the Tower
• 1x Braids, Arisen Nightmare
• 1x Chatterfang, Squirrel General
• 1x Delighted Halfling
• 1x Delney, Streetwise Lookout
• 1x Essence Warden
• 1x Experimental Confectioner
• 1x Farmer Cotton
• 1x Gilded Goose
• 1x Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles
• 1x Gyome, Master Chef
• 1x Jaheira, Friend of the Forest
• 1x Kambal, Profiteering Mayor
• 1x Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff
• 1x Meriadoc Brandybuck
• 1x Mirkwood Bats
• 1x Peregrin Took
• 1x Prize Pig
• 1x Rapacious Guest
• 1x Samwise Gamgee
• 1x Silverback Elder
• 1x Soul's Attendant
• 1x The Gaffer
• 1x Tireless Provisioner
• 1x Treebeard, Gracious Host
• 1x Witch of the Moors

Enchantment (7)

• 1x Agent of the Iron Throne
• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Call of the Ring
• 1x Parallel Lives
• 1x Smothering Tithe
• 1x Sylvan Library
• 1x Trail of Crumbs

Land (34)

• 1x Boseiju, Who Endures
• 1x Bountiful Promenade
• 1x Cabal Coffers
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 3x Forest
• 1x Godless Shrine
• 1x Indatha Triome
• 1x Isolated Chapel
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Overgrown Tomb
• 4x Plains
• 1x Restless Cottage
• 1x Rogue's Passage
• 1x Sunpetal Grove
• 4x Swamp
• 1x Temple Garden
• 1x The Shire
• 1x Undergrowth Stadium
• 1x Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Vault of the Archangel
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Windswept Heath
• 1x Woodland Cemetery
• 1x Yavimaya, Cradle of Growth

Artifact (8)

• 1x Alhammarret's Archive
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Bolas's Citadel
• 1x Idol of Oblivion
• 1x Mana Crypt
• 1x Nuka-Cola Vending Machine
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x The One Ring

Commanders (2)

Instant (11)

• 1x Abrupt Decay
• 1x Anguished Unmaking
• 1x Assassin's Trophy
• 1x Beast Within
• 1x Despark
• 1x Get Lost
• 1x Heroic Intervention
• 1x Path to Exile
• 1x Saw in Half
• 1x Swords to Plowshares
• 1x Teferi's Protection

Sorcery (6)

• 1x Dusk / Dawn
• 1x Farseek
• 1x Nature's Lore
• 1x The Battle of Bywater
• 1x Three Visits
• 1x Toxic Deluge

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Sorcery (1)

• 1x Many Partings

Creature (1)

• 1x Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

Land (1)

• 1x Overgrown Farmland

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Casual deck based on food tokens, life gain. I don't want to use tutor cards or win with infinite combo because for me that takes the fun out of the game. Any suggestions welcome, I will be updating the list as new cards are revealed.

Introduction & Gameplan

I'd say this deck is primarily a life gain deck with a token sub-theme. As a life gain deck, the plan is not only to gain life, but to weaponize that gain with synergistic cards. This isn't exactly a life gain deck because even when you reduce the cost of cracking foods to 1 mana with Sam, Loyal Attendant, you aren't going to crack a bunch of foods for cheap and gain a ton of life. Gaining 3 life for 1 mana isn't very strong and there are other commander decks that do lifegain better. You actually dont want to be cracking all of your food tokens the moment you get them, it actually goes against the synergies in your deck. So we need cards that created value when we created or cracked foods and when we gain life during the turn to complete the game.

Early Game

Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit costs just 2 mana, and Sam, Loyal Attendant 3 mana. You need to start them both as early as possible to start your game plan so you need ramp and mana dork like Birds of Paradise, Delighted Halfling, Gilded Goose, Farseek, Many Partings, Arcane Signet, Mana Crypt or Sol Ring. You absolutely must attacks turn 3 or 4 with Frodo.

• Turn One: Play a land and play a mana dork.

• Turn Two: Play a land and play Frodo. or Play a land and play ramp spell

• Turn Three: Play a land and play Sam, you make a food token at the start of the combat phase, use the extra mana to crack that food token and swing with Frodo, this triggers Frodo's ability. Or play Frodo you don't already have to.

-Turn Four: Play a land and play Sam, you make a food token at the start of the combat phase, use the extra mana to crack that food token and swing with Frodo, this triggers Frodo's ability.

What you absolutly want is mana and cast Frodo before Sam.

Mid Game

Life gain and tokens often go hand in hand. What you actually want to do is cracking one or two foods every turn to generate value.

• Perfect examples are Witch of the Moors, Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit, Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles or The Gaffer. They don't really care if you cracked an infinite food tokens. If you crack just one food they are happy to give you the value promised.

• Academy Manufactor, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Peregrin Took and Parallel Lives will triggers when you created tokens while Astrid Peth, Experimental Confectioner, Rapacious Guest, Trail of Crumbs or Nuka-Cola Vending Machine give you more value with foods you cracked. Jaheira, Friend of the Forest can help you to cast spells with tokens you created while Gyome, Master Chef and Samwise Gamgee are just insane in this deck to generate Foods and give you value when you crack them.

• Your opponents can also generate value for you. Essence Warden and Soul's Attendant give you life gain when a creature ETB while Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff and Smothering Tithe give you treasure token when they draw or cast spell.

Late Game

Now it's time to end the game. You have token makers, a bunch of tokens on the battlefield, cards to gain life and generate value. You have multiple ways to win..

• The life you gained and tokens you created/sacrificed help you to swing your opponent with a big army, Blossoming Bogbeast, Banquet Guests, Chatterfang, Squirrel General or Farmer Cotton . Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender and Rapacious Guest must have a lot of +1/+1 counters on them and whether they die or do combat damage, they generate superb value. Treebeard, Gracious Host can increase Rapacious Guest or Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit.

• The aristocrat style of burning everyone by saccing/making tokens is one of the alternate wincon with Mirkwood Bats or Agent of the Iron Throne. You can also drain your opponents life with Gollum, Obsessed Stalker, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose or Sanguine Bond. And if you have Alhammarret's Archive on the board, the value is insane.

Packages

Ramp

• Birds of Paradise, Delighted Halfling, Sol Ring, Arcane Signet and Mana Crypt all produce mana on their own.

• Prize Pig produce mana and perfect to sacrifice a lot of food tokens with his untap abilty when you gain life.

• Farseek and Many Partings to get lands out of our deck and onto the field and created food.

Removal & Interaction

• Anguished Unmaking, Assassin's Trophy and Beast Within can get rid of any permanent.

• Path to Exile and Swords to Plowshares are cheap and efficient creature removal spells.

• Dusk / Dawn, The Battle of Bywater

• Toxic Deluge

• Witch of the Moors forces our opponents to sacrifice creatures.

Card Draw & Card Advantage

• Braids, Arisen Nightmare draws us a card whenever we

• Peregrin Took and Savvy Hunter draws us a card whenever you sacrifice food tokens.

• The Gaffer draws us a card whenever you gain 3 or more life (spoiler : you gain 3 life with yours foods).

• Call of the Ring draws us card and temps you every turn.

• Black Market Connections draws us card, makes Treasure token.

• Alhammarret's Archive

• Idol of Oblivion

• The One Ring draws us card and gives us protection from everything.

• Well of Lost Dreams

• Bolas's Citadel and Trail of Crumbs

Created Token

• Astrid Peth, Experimental Confectioner, Farmer Cotton, Gilded Goose, Rosie Cotton of South Lane and Trail of Crumbs will created food tokens when ETB and Gyome, Master Chef and Samwise Gamgee created food tokens when other creatures ETB.

• Astrid Peth, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Rapacious Guest, Sam, Loyal Attendant and Savvy Hunter will created food tokens when you attacks.

• Nuka-Cola Vending Machine, and Gilded Goose

• Tireless Provisioner will created food tokens when you plays a land.

• Academy Manufactor, Peregrin Took, Chatterfang, Squirrel General and Parallel Lives

• Lotho, Corrupt Shirriff, Black Market Connections and Smothering Tithe

• The Battle of Bywater

• Restless Cottage and The Shire

WinCon

• Banquet Guests, Chatterfang, Squirrel General, Farmer Cotton, Parallel Lives, Rapacious Guest and Syr Ginger, the Meal Ender

• Blossoming Bogbeast, Gwaihir, Greatest of the Eagles and Treebeard, Gracious Host

• Gollum, Obsessed Stalker, Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose and Sanguine Bond

• Mirkwood Bats and Agent of the Iron Throne

Combo

• Farmer Cotton: with Mirkwood Bats on the table if we cast Farmer Cotton for X = 10 (12 mana) we are dealing 20 damage to everyone at the table. And it's better if Parallel Lives or Chatterfang, Squirrel General are on the battlefield.

• Saw in Half has cool interaction with your own creatures. When an opponents target one of your creatures, destroy this creature with Saw in Half to control two tokens of this creature therefore twice as much problem for your opponents. I like to target my own Rapacious Guest, Mirkwood Bats or Samwise Gamgee for example.

Date added	10 months
Last updated	1 week
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	11 - 0 Mythic Rares 57 - 0 Rares 15 - 0 Uncommons 6 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	2.79
Tokens	Beast 3/3 G, Bird 3/3 W w/ Grants Flying, Clue, Copy Clone, Eldrazi 10/10 C, Food, Halfling, Map, Rat 1/1 B w/ Can't Block, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Squirrel 1/1 G, The Ring, The Ring Tempts You, Treasure