Card

Samwise Gamgee

Legendary Creature — Halfling Peasant


Whenever another nontoken creature enters the battlefield under your control, create a Food token. (It's an artifact with ", , Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life.")
Sacrifice three Foods: Return target historic card from your graveyard to your hand. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)


  The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
#819, Rare

Illustrated by: Marko Manev

Samwise Gamgee Commander decks
Not Legal Standard BO1
Not Legal Brawl
Not Legal Explorer BO1
Not Legal Pauper
Not Legal Pioneer
Not Legal Traditional Standard
Not Legal Traditional Explorer

Rulings

  • 2023-06-16
    Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures in other sets, it's never a creature type.
  • 2023-06-16
    If an effect refers to a Food, it means any Food artifact, not just a Food artifact token. For example, you can sacrifice Lembas, an artifact card with the Food subtype, to activate the last ability of Bill the Pony.
  • 2023-06-16
    You can't sacrifice a Food token to pay multiple costs. For example, you can't sacrifice a Food token to activate its own ability and also to activate the last ability of Bill the Pony.
  • 2023-06-16
    Some spells and abilities that create Food tokens may require targets. If each target chosen is an illegal target as that spell or ability tries to resolve, it won't resolve. You won't create any Food tokens.
  • 2023-06-16
    Do not eat the delicious cards. No, not even for second breakfast.
  • 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
    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
    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.
  • 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.
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