Samwise Gamgee
Mana value2TypeLegendary Creature — Halfling Peasant
Color identity Selesnya
RarityRare
SetThe Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
ArtistEkaterina Burmak
Price€1.54 · foil €2.11 · $2.38About this card
Samwise Gamgee is a creature card in Magic: The Gathering with mana value 2 (color identity: green and white). First printed in Tales of Middle-earth Promos (2023); 5 paper printings in total. It is one of the 5,000 most played cards in Commander (EDHREC rank 2,383). It can be used as a commander. Legal in Commander, Modern, Legacy and Vintage. Cheapest printing: €1.54 (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth); most expensive: €7.76 (The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth).
Samwise Gamgee
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, 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.)
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2024-11-08
Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
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
Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
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.
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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