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Samwise Gamgee

Samwise Gamgee

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

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.)
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What Samwise Gamgee actually does

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What a Samwise Gamgee deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Samwise Gamgee

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 creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Gilded Goose1 mana
  2. Academy Manufactor3 mana
  3. Tireless Provisioner3 mana
  4. Farmer Cotton2 mana
  5. Samwise Gamgee2 mana
  6. Peregrin Took3 mana
  7. City Pigeon1 mana
  8. Momo, Playful Pet1 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Chrome Mox0 mana
  2. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  3. Lotus Field0 mana
  4. Lush Portico0 mana
  5. Riveteers Overlook0 mana
  6. Selesnya Sanctuary0 mana
  7. Talon Gates of Madara0 mana
  8. Temple of Plenty0 mana

Creatures you are happy to sacrifice — a free sac outlet on the commander is worthless with nothing to feed it

  1. Hangarback Walker0 mana
  2. Old One Eye6 mana
  3. Sosuke's Summons3 mana
  4. Pest Infestation1 mana
  5. Reach of Branches5 mana
  6. Crawling Chorus1 mana
  7. Doomed Traveler1 mana
  8. Hunted Witness1 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Intangible Virtue2 mana
  2. Caretaker's Talent3 mana
  3. Inspiring Leader3 mana
  4. Pollen-Shield Hare // Hare Raising2 mana
  5. Prava of the Steel Legion3 mana
  6. Mite Overseer4 mana
  7. Phantom General4 mana
  8. Mosswort Bridge0 mana

Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource

  1. Aftermath Analyst2 mana
  2. Altar of Dementia2 mana
  3. Mindcrank2 mana
  4. Codex Shredder1 mana
  5. Smuggler's Surprise1 mana
  6. Six3 mana
  7. Argoth, Sanctum of Nature0 mana
  8. Eden, Seat of the Sanctum0 mana

Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses

  1. Airbender Ascension2 mana
  2. Eldrazi Displacer3 mana
  3. Eternal Acrobat Toast0 mana
  4. Conjurer's Closet5 mana
  5. Distinguished Conjurer2 mana
  6. Emiel the Blessed4 mana
  7. Felidar Guardian4 mana
  8. Restoration Angel4 mana

Make creature tokens — a static anthem or a go-wide commander needs a board to be wide

  1. Dalkovan Encampment0 mana
  2. Elenda's Hierophant3 mana
  3. Hornet Nest3 mana
  4. Esika's Chariot4 mana
  5. Hero of Bladehold4 mana
  6. Myrel, Shield of Argive4 mana
  7. Parhelion II // Parhelion II0 mana
  8. Trendy Circus Pirate0 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. Flicker of Fate2 mana
  5. Beast Within3 mana
  6. Generous Gift3 mana
  7. Nature's Claim1 mana
  8. Erode1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Final Showdown1 mana
  2. Vanquish the Horde8 mana
  3. Martyr's Cry2 mana
  4. Split Up3 mana
  5. Cathedral Membrane2 mana
  6. Citywide Bust3 mana
  7. Harsh Mercy3 mana
  8. Retribution of the Meek3 mana

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