Deck & Commander Strategies
Samwise Gamgee
Utilizes food token generation to fuel recursion of historic cards and synergizes with token producers like Rosy Cotton to overwhelm opponents with squirrel tokens.
Galadriel of Lothlórien
Focuses on ramping lands through scrying and ring temptation triggers to enable powerful landfall creatures and card advantage engines.
Éowyn, Fearless Knight
Employs blink effects to exile large creatures repeatedly while generating token armies that benefit from protection and keywords.
Sméagol, Helpful Guide
Triggers ring temptation to steal lands from opponents and generate value through landfall triggers and sacrifice outlets.
Gameplay Insights
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Samwise Gamgee's synergy with Rosy Cotton created a looping food and squirrel token engine that provided board presence and resources.
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Galadriel's ability to reveal multiple lands and ramp into landfall triggers allowed a rapid expansion of board presence with zombies from Field of the Dead.
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Éowyn's repeated blinking of creatures like Mere Battle Sphere and Siege-Gang Commander provided continuous token generation and removal of large threats.
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Sméagol exploited ring temptation triggers to steal lands and generate additional value via landfall and sacrifice interactions, applying pressure on opponents' resources.
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Key plays included Blake's use of Ephemerate to repeatedly draw cards with Wall of Omens and Cursed Mirror to copy creatures for extra value.
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The interaction between ring temptation triggers and landfall synergies was pivotal, enabling multiple triggers per turn that snowballed board advantage.
Notable Cards
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Samwise Gamgee
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Galadriel of Lothlórien
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Éowyn, Fearless Knight
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Siege-Gang Commander
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Sméagol, Helpful Guide
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Cursed Mirror
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Ephemerate
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Wall of Omens
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Field of the Dead
Gameplay Summary
The game kicked off with a heavy focus on land ramp and token generation.
Samwise Gamgee's ability to create food tokens whenever a non-token creature enters the battlefield was quickly established, fueling resource recursion and synergy with Rosy Cotton's food-triggered 1/1 counter ability that created squirrel tokens.
Galadriel of Lothlórien accelerated the game by ramping lands through scrying and revealing lands on top of the library, enabling powerful landfall triggers and card advantage engines like Royal Elemental and Temporal Anchor.
Meanwhile, Éowyn, Fearless Knight leveraged blink effects to repeatedly exile and remove threatening creatures from opponents, while also generating token armies with cards like Mere Battle Sphere and Siege-Gang Commander.
Sméagol, Helpful Guide aimed to capitalize on ring temptation triggers, stealing lands from opponents and generating additional value from landfall and sacrifice synergies.
