Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant
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- Commanders
- Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant
- Cards
- 100
- Current value
- $329.78
- Grade
- A+
How it grades
Fundamentals 99/100. Plays like Lifegain and Tokens.
This reads as Lifegain · Tokens, built around Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit & Sam, Loyal Attendant. Life total as a resource and a weapon: incidental gain triggers payoffs that grow creatures, drain opponents, or draw cards, and the drain pairs turn a fat life total into a clock. The deck must not be a pile of gain with no payoff: every gain effect should feed at least two engines. The fundamentals check out across the board. From here it's meta calls and personal tech.
- A+Mana reliability
- A+Land count
- A+Mana curve
- A+Ramp
- ACard draw
- A+Interaction
- A+Commander synergy
- A+Win conditions
- A+Card quality
- A+Legality & size
Nothing falls short. Strong on mana reliability, land count, mana curve, ramp, card draw, interaction, commander synergy, win conditions, card quality and legality & size.
87 cards graded: A- 17, B+ 40, B 30. The command zone is the plan, so it isn't graded.
Upgrades
Soul WardenW$3.47
In place of Elanor Gardner: expensive for ramp: the help arrives late (63/100)
Pays off your token engine (6 producers). Pays off your go-wide engine (36 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Elas il-Kor, Sadistic PilgrimWB$3.79
In place of Frodo, Sauron's Bane: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Fits the token build players run with your commanders. EDHREC Lifegain staple. Pays off your token engine (6 producers).
Enduring Tenacity2BB$14.20
In place of Night of the Sweets' Revenge: expensive for ramp: the help arrives late (64/100)
Pays off your lifegain engine (25 producers). Pays off the commanders' lifegain plan. Top-5% staple by play data.
Soul's AttendantW$8.16
In place of Toxic Deluge: weakest slot in the deck (64/100)
Pays off your token engine (6 producers). Pays off your go-wide engine (36 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Marauding Blight-Priest2B$0.29
In place of Gollum, Obsessed Stalker: weakest slot in the deck (65/100)
Pays off your lifegain engine (25 producers). Top-5% staple by play data. Pays off the commanders' lifegain plan.
Suture Priest1W$4.63
In place of Lobelia, Defender of Bag End: weakest slot in the deck (65/100)
Pays off your token engine (6 producers). Pays off your go-wide engine (36 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Exemplar of Light2WW$0.91
In place of Feasting Hobbit: weakest slot in the deck (66/100)
Fuels your +1/+1 counter payoffs (3 in deck). Pays off your lifegain engine (25 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Archangel of Thune3WW$48.38
In place of Meriadoc Brandybuck: weakest slot in the deck (66/100)
Fuels your lifegain payoffs (7 in deck). Pays off your lifegain engine (25 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Rhox Faithmender3W$1.98
In place of Pippin, Warden of Isengard: weakest slot in the deck (66/100)
Fuels your go-wide payoffs (3 in deck). Pays off your lifegain engine (25 producers). Top-5% staple by play data.
Blood Artist1B$3.84
In place of Revive the Shire: weakest slot in the deck (66/100)
Fits the lifegain build players run with your commanders. Fuels your go-wide payoffs (3 in deck). Fuels your lifegain payoffs (7 in deck).
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Decklist
Commander 2
Creatures 32
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- A-
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Instants 8
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Sorceries 8
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Artifacts 8
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Enchantments 6
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Lands 36
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- B
- B
- B
- B
- B×6
- B+
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- B
- B+
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- B×5
- B
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- B
- B×3
- B
- B
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