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Sam, Loyal Attendant

Sam, Loyal Attendant

Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant · {1}{G}{W} · Green/White commander

Partner with Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit (When this creature enters, target player may put Frodo into their hand from their library, then shuffle.) At the beginning of combat on your turn, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: You gain 3 life.") Activated abilities of Foods you control cost {1} less to activate.
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What Sam, Loyal Attendant actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

What a Sam, Loyal Attendant deck needs

Plays as food. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Sam, Loyal Attendant deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Sam, Loyal Attendant

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific

  1. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  2. Ozolith, the Shattered Spire2 mana
  3. Cleric Class1 mana
  4. Bontu's Monument3 mana
  5. Enduring Vitality3 mana
  6. Kami of Whispered Hopes3 mana
  7. Mirror Entity3 mana
  8. Oketra's Monument3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Path to Exile1 mana
  2. Swords to Plowshares1 mana
  3. March of Otherworldly Light1 mana
  4. Beast Within3 mana
  5. Generous Gift3 mana
  6. Nature's Claim1 mana
  7. Erode1 mana
  8. Unwanted Remake1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  4. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  5. Archdruid's Charm3 mana
  6. Chord of Calling3 mana
  7. Eldritch Evolution3 mana
  8. Eladamri's Call2 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  2. Wrath of God4 mana
  3. Day of Judgment4 mana
  4. Shatter the Sky4 mana
  5. Split Up3 mana
  6. Winds of Abandon2 mana
  7. Depopulate4 mana
  8. No Witnesses4 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Esper Sentinel1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Sylvan Library2 mana
  4. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  5. Archivist of Oghma2 mana
  6. Beast Whisperer4 mana
  7. The One Ring4 mana
  8. Vexing Bauble1 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Flowering of the White Tree2 mana
  2. Bastion Protector3 mana
  3. Codsworth, Handy Helper3 mana
  4. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Avacyn, Angel of Hope8 mana
  7. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  8. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Incubation Druid2 mana
  3. Palladium Myr3 mana
  4. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  5. Ilysian Caryatid2 mana
  6. Selesnya Signet2 mana
  7. Heritage Druid1 mana
  8. Llanowar Tribe3 mana

Gain life repeatedly — for a commander that converts life gained into drain, the gain IS the damage

  1. Basilisk Collar1 mana
  2. High Market0 mana
  3. Zuran Orb0 mana
  4. Authority of the Consuls1 mana
  5. Gilded Goose1 mana
  6. Haywire Mite1 mana
  7. Serra Ascendant1 mana
  8. Shadowspear1 mana

Combos with Sam, Loyal Attendant

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Sam, Loyal Attendant is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

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