Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee: Legendary Creature - Halfling Peasant, The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth. Printings, prices, and format legality on Mana Grove.
- Mana cost
- {G}{W}
- Mana value
- 2
- Type
- Legendary Creature - Halfling Peasant
- Colour identity
- White and green (WG)
- Power / toughness
- 2/2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)
- Released
- 2023-06-23
- Collector number
- 222
- Artist
- Ekaterina Burmak
- Commander rank
- 2,383 (by how often it appears in Commander decks)
- Keywords
- Food
- Commander
- Can be your commander
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About Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee is a Magic: The Gathering card, a rare white and green legendary creature from The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR), a draft-focused set released in June 2023. It is collector number 222 in that set, with art by Ekaterina Burmak. It costs {G}{W} (one white and one green mana) to cast, for a mana value of 2. It is a 2/2 creature. Its colour identity is white and green. It is legal in Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Historic, Timeless, Gladiator and Penny Dreadful. It has been printed in 2 sets. It can be your commander. The latest aggregated market price for this printing is $1.88 (normal finish, as of 2026-11-02).
Card text
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.)
Market price
Latest aggregated market price for the normal finish of this printing: $1.88 (as of 2026-11-02).
The figure covers this printing only; other printings carry their own price on their own page.
Format legality
Legality of Samwise Gamgee by format. Formats in which it is not legal are not listed.
| Modern | Legal |
|---|---|
| Legacy | Legal |
| Vintage | Legal |
| Commander | Legal |
| Duel Commander | Legal |
| Oathbreaker | Legal |
| Brawl | Legal |
| Historic | Legal |
| Timeless | Legal |
| Gladiator | Legal |
| Penny Dreadful | Legal |
Other printings of Samwise Gamgee
Samwise Gamgee has been printed in 2 sets. The other printings are listed newest first, with the rarity and release year of each.
| Printing | Rarity | Year |
|---|---|---|
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #673 | Rare | 2023 |
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #819 | Rare | 2023 |
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #327 | Rare | 2023 |
| Tales of Middle-earth Promos (PLTR) #222s | Rare | 2023 |
Official rulings
The 8 most recent official rulings for Samwise Gamgee, newest first.
- 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.
- Food is an artifact type. Even though it appears on some creatures, it's never a creature type.
- 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).
- Whatever you do, don't eat the delicious cards.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Similar cards
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