Food and Fellowship Precon: Decklist, Value, and Verdict

I’m really excited for Food and Fellowship. I’ve wanted a proper Food deck for a long time, and I think this one is really well built. The cards supporting either the tokens themselves or lifegain in general are really good, the strategy seems well built and fun to play, and the deck is absurdly flavorful. Pun intended.

When it comes to value I think the deck has fewer cards in total than the others, but a few of them have a pretty notable price. I don’t think it necessarily falls behind the others too much.

The flavor of this deck works really well for me. It simultaneously captures the coziness and kindness that hobbits are usually more well-known for, while also managing to represent the more egotistical and hedonistic aspect to them.

The fact that the deck has several non-halfling creatures like elves, humans, and treefolk all works really well in my opinion. Humans and hobbits cohabit the town of Bree peacefully, the main group of hobbits receive help from elves quite often, and Merry and Pippin are the ones to start the Last March of the Ents. It all fits in really nicely.

Food and Fellowship’s mechanics are the most effective at representing the most important and fundamental aspect of Tolkien’s books: a hobbit’s daily meals. And hobbits eat a lot.

We get a deck focused on Food tokens and gaining life with Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit and Sam, Loyal Attendant partnered at the helm of this precon, with some typal inclinations because there are plenty of halflings here. These two commanders complement each other wonderfully with Sam creating Food tokens and making them easier to use, while Frodo benefits from you using those tokens to gain life.

An alternative to your two main hobbits are Merry, Warden of Isengard and Pippin, Warden of Isengard. These also partner with each other and keep the Food theme going.

Pippin, Warden of Isengard can be especially useful thanks to its two abilities. Being able to create a Food token at any time makes it so that you can get them during your opponents’ turns, which would cause Merry, Warden of Isengard to trigger during that turn, somewhat bypassing its “this ability triggers only once each turn” rule. The second ability on Pippin can also be a massive game ender if you have enough creatures on the field.

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