Food and Fellowship Upgrade - Improving the Precon Commander Deck with $100 

The decklist out of the box comes with Path to Exile and does not include Sylvan Offering. There was a mistake in the initial reveal of the deck. Luckily, we added and removed those two cards, so look at us, making things better.

Don’t sleep on Prized Pig! It’s one of the best cards in the deck. With Sam out all of your food tokens are free to sac. You can easily generate a ton of mana/life in a turn. Pair that with any of your payoff cards and you can have a crazy turn.

I think Field Tested Frying Pan is pretty neat. One thing you can do with it is use the Skulk from the Ring to get your attack in, then buff up Frodo before Combat with the Field Tested Frying Pan, and your opponent can no longer block it. It also lets you, similar to having a Deathtouch unit, just present a potentially really strong blocker.

Here's a drinking game for the upcoming Hosts of Mordor video: Take a shot for everytime they mention a card that says "The Ring tempts you" or "Amass Orc", depending on which direction they go at it.

I must say that i like the field-tested frying pan. Yesterday i played the deck for the first time without changes and i my set up was as followed: Sanguine Bond + the 1/1 token with the pan + bilbo + frodo + sam + 4 food tokens (in the end it were 5 with sams ability triggering at the beginning of the combatphase) total of 10 mana and i played Landroval, Horizon Witness so that the 1/1 token gets flying when im attacking and it cant be blocked because my opponent had no flying or reach. So in conclusion the damage was: 21 (from the Token) + 20 (from Sanguine Bond with 5 food tokens) = 41 (frodo also attacked for the flying ability but was blocked) Maybe i was lucky with the flying buff but it doesnt feel like its that hard to hit a combo like this. In the next game i had a Feasting Hobbit with almost 20/20 stats and obviously it couldnt be blocked because it was by far the biggest creature on the board. I think this deck has some serious oneshot turns.

Any chance we can get a look at what "Guys Who Magic" would make as a moddern deck for LotR? Love your commander videos but would love to hear your thoughts and ideas on a different format!

You forgot about Gyome, Master Chef who can make creatures indestructible when you tap one mana and sac a food and he also makes food at the end of your turn equal to the amount of nontoken creatures that enter the battlefield under your control

Frying pan is really cool imo, it create some dude and a snack when etb and can hit really hard in endgame. And if you have voracious guest on the field and some removal, you can burn your opponents to ashes !

the three mana aragorn works pretty well too

Why not Archivist of Oghma? It's a halfling with flash that draws and gains life. It checks ALL the boxes to me.

Out of the box playing this deck I noticed it wants to do one of two things in regards to Food. Either crack one for the 3 Life to get Frodo going, or cracking/sacking as many as possible to maximize a card's power and or value. There pretty much isn't an in-between in that regard. (This Deck however also includes 3 Food being a bigger factor.)

i was thinking about taking out scattered groves for caves of koilos since scattered groves entered tapped.

Actuly used crypt incursion to remove my whole grave late game as i had been more or less wiped and then with the sanguine spell win the game due to the direct damage, quite like it

Love the changes! I'm curious why you didn't add the uncommon Peregrin Took or the uncommon Meriadoc Brandybuck? I think both would fit this list very well and might make hoarding the food a bit easier for the heavier hitters in the deck

Im not sure what direction to take this deck honestly. Lean heavily into food and token creation, but also aristocrats/reanimator?

Prize pig is a bomb in this deck, you should reconsider putting it back in.

Can you add the one ring in it?

Considering Path is already in the deck like you guys noted as a correction, that means one less addition and removal. The Pig can stay. LOL

Why did you remove prized pig, with Sam out it allows you to crack every single one of your foods at once

Do not cut prize pig! It untaps automatically when you eat food, and Sam makes them cost just one. So if you have a massive number of Foods and a lifegain payoff on board, you can sac all of them for just 1 mana if you have Sam and prize pig

I think no food deck is complete without legend Gyome, Master Chef. I think he’s worth considering, his ability can help keep the commanders alive Otherwise pretty solid improvements, especially the group-huggy stuff and treefolks. Just doesn’t fit here

So i cut all the ramp artifacts. I added more land ramp. Nothing worse than getting your artifacts blown up and having no mana.

Mine definitely had Path to Exile in it

Trading post is there for gaining life

Putting in the witch king feels like a major lore-loss

Sorry but I can't get rid of prized pig😂

Would marionette master work because you aren't technically putting food tokens into the graveyard for her effect to work.

I could swear path to exile is in the list

Considering the wording on marionette master mentions an artifact must enter the graveyard i dont believe sacking food triggers her, since food is a token and as such doesn't enter the graveyard

I kept trading post, it helps get Academy Manufactor back from the GY but that's the only synergy so I can see why to remove it