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Samwise the Stouthearted

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

Flash When Samwise enters, choose up to one target permanent card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Return it to your hand. Then the Ring tempts you.

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What Samwise the Stouthearted actually does

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

• Triggered ability · etbWhen Samwise enters, choose up to one target permanent card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Return it to your hand. Then the Ring tempts you.
• Keyword · flashflash

What a Samwise the Stouthearted deck needs

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

• blink and recursion aimed at the commander itself (its value is its own enter trigger)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)

The Samwise the Stouthearted deck plan

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

• 12× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 12× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 6× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana

Best cards for Samwise the Stouthearted

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.

Combos with Samwise the Stouthearted

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Samwise the Stouthearted is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Samwise the Stouthearted + Ratadrabik Of Urborg + Bartolomé Del Presidio2,660 decks
• Samwise the Stouthearted + Ratadrabik Of Urborg + Relic Of Legends2,648 decks
• Samwise the Stouthearted + Ratadrabik Of Urborg + Ashnod's Altar2,305 decks
• Samwise the Stouthearted + Ratadrabik Of Urborg + Viscera Seer2,107 decks
• Samwise the Stouthearted + Ratadrabik Of Urborg + Yahenni, Undying Partisan1,890 decks
• Samwise the Stouthearted + Ratadrabik Of Urborg + Phyrexian Altar1,726 decks

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