Samwise Gamgee
Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Sacrifice three Foods: Return target historic card from your graveyard to your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)
How Samwise Gamgee decks play in EDH
Samwise Gamgee is a Selesnya commander in white and green costing GW, and its legendary creature - halfling peasant line shapes the whole deck around it. It makes tokens, so the deck wants ways to pump a wide board and to turn spare bodies into cards or damage. Sacrifice is built into the card, which pairs it with cheap recursive creatures and payoffs that trigger when something dies. The cards below are the ones Samwise Gamgee decks actually play most often, grouped by the job they do.
Most-played cards
20 cards · about $49.59Play rates from EDHREC. Prices from Scryfall, refreshed daily.
Ramp (2)
Card draw (2)
Removal (1)
Creatures (11)
Synergy & payoffs (3)
Lands (1)
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Grimoire generates a complete, Commander-legal Samwise Gamgee decklist with a written strategy, a full mana base and live prices — from the whole card pool, or only from cards you already own.
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What colours can I use in a Samwise Gamgee deck?
Samwise Gamgee has a Selesnya colour identity, so every card in the deck must be white and green or colourless. That includes mana symbols in rules text, not just casting cost.
What are the best cards for Samwise Gamgee?
The cards played most often in Samwise Gamgee decks include Bilbo, Fellow Conspirator, Belladonna Took, Bag End Banquet. The full list of staples above is grouped by the job each card does, so you can see the deck's skeleton rather than just a pile of names.
How much does a Samwise Gamgee deck cost?
The 20 most-played cards shown above come to roughly $49.59 at current market prices. A complete 100-card build costs more, and Grimoire can generate a budget version instead if you set a price ceiling.
Can I build a Samwise Gamgee deck from cards I already own?
Yes. Import your collection into Grimoire and choose "my cards" when you build. The generator will only use cards you actually own, and the Missing Cards page shows what you would need to buy to finish any list.