Samwise Gamgee card art

Samwise Gamgee

Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant MV 2

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What it does

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.)

Combos with Samwise Gamgee

Lines this card is part of — what it needs alongside it, and what the two of them do. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

  • Cauldron Familiar Viscera Seer Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite scry 1
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Warren Soultrader Cauldron Familiar Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite lifegain triggers
    • Infinite lifegain
    • Infinite lifeloss
    • Infinite Treasure tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Stonecoil Serpent Parallel Lives Peregrin Took Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Stonecoil Serpent Parallel Lives Doubling Season Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Stonecoil Serpent Doubling Season Peregrin Took Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite Food tokens
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite draw triggers
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Witch's Oven Shield Sphere Clock of Omens Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite mana artifacts you control can produce
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite untap of artifacts you control
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Bill the Pony Academy Manufactor Ashnod's Altar Infinite
    • Infinite artifact ETB
    • Infinite artifact LTB
    • Infinite artifact sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite artifact tokens
    • Infinite card draw
    • Infinite Clue tokens
    • Infinite colored mana
    • Infinite colorless mana
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite draw triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    • Infinite Treasure tokens
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →
  • Bill the Pony Phyrexian Altar Rakdos, Lord of Riots Infinite
    • Infinite death triggers
    • Infinite creature ETB
    • Infinite creature LTB
    • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
    • Infinite storm count
    See the steps on Commander Spellbook →

Showing the 8 shortest and most explosive. This card appears in more than these — follow any of them through to Commander Spellbook to browse the rest.

Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

8 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2023-06-16

    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.

  • 2023-06-16

    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.

  • 2023-06-16

    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.

  • 2023-06-16

    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.

  • 2024-11-08

    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.

  • 2024-11-08

    Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.

  • 2024-11-08

    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).

  • 2024-11-08

    Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

As a commander

Decks built with Samwise Gamgee in the command zone.

Decks led 2
Games played 2
Wins 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Samwise Gamgee, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 4
Games played 1
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Aragorn, the Uniter 2 0 —
Betor, Ancestor's Voice 1 1 —
Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 1 0 —
Sam, Loyal Attendant 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Abzan 2 decks
  • Four-Color (no Black) 2 decks

Every version of Samwise Gamgee

5 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Samwise Gamgee — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.