Samwise Gamgee
LTR · rare · Released 2023-06-23
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Derived from the 7 atoms below.
above rate
minor value alone
wants support
scales up
multiple modes
broadly useful
easily answered
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Rationale
Samwise Gamgee is a 2cmc GW legendary that passively generates Food tokens whenever nontoken creatures enter (excellent in creature-dense or ETB shells) and converts three Foods into a Historic recursion engine — reaching back artifacts, legendaries, or Sagas. Signature in Food/aristocrats and graveyard-matters shells; notably anti-synergistic with tokens-go-wide since the trigger only fires on nontoken creatures. The three-Food activation cost demands setup but the GY recursion breadth (artifacts, legendaries, Sagas) is wide.
Learnings (3)
The recursion ability retrieves 'historic' cards — artifacts, legendaries, AND Sagas — making Samwise a surprisingly broad graveyard engine in Bant or GW legendary/saga shells, not just a Food payoff.
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The Food-generation trigger fires on any nontoken creature you control entering, not just creatures you cast, so blink/flicker effects (Ephemerate, Conjurer's Closet) can chain multiple Food tokens per turn cycle.
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In a Food-matters commander shell, Samwise effectively self-fuels his own recursion loop if you have a creature-heavy board — three creature ETBs yield three Foods, which immediately pay for a Historic retrieval.
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Popularity
- EDHREC rank: #2,389