Samwise Gamgee
- Mana cost
- {G}{W}
- Type
- Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant
- Power / toughness
- 2 / 2
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth #222 (rare)
- Price
- $2.10 USD
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.)
Samwise Gamgee has 5 printings, first in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (2023). EDHREC ranks it #2,382 among Commander cards. It appears most in Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant decks (21,978 on EDHREC). It has 8 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: legal
Commanders that run Samwise Gamgee most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit // Sam, Loyal Attendant: 21,978 decks
- Rocco, Street Chef: 7,744 decks
- Aragorn, the Uniter: 3,851 decks
- Baylen, the Haymaker: 2,656 decks
- Brenard, Ginger Sculptor: 2,335 decks
- Bilbo, Birthday Celebrant: 2,191 decks
- Rocco, Cabaretti Caterer: 2,001 decks
- Treebeard, Gracious Host: 1,554 decks
Often played with Samwise Gamgee
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Some abilities trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell." Such an ability resolves before the spell that caused it to trigger. It resolves even if that spell is countered.
- : Lands are never cast, so abilities that trigger "whenever you cast a historic spell" won't trigger if you play a legendary land. They also won't trigger if a card on the battlefield transforms into a card with the legendary supertype, the artifact card type, or the Saga subtype.
- : A card, spell, or permanent is historic if it has the legendary supertype, the artifact card type, or the Saga subtype. Having two of those qualities doesn't make an object more historic than another or provide an additional bonus—an object either is historic or it isn't.
- : An ability that triggers "whenever you cast a historic spell" doesn't trigger if a historic card is put onto the battlefield without being cast.
- : You can't sacrifice a Food to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability.
- : Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- : If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Tough Cookie (an Artifact Creature — Food Golem) to activate Maraleaf Rider's ability (an ability with "Sacrifice a Food" in its cost).
- : Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.