Modern Samwise Combo
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Samwise Combo has held steady around 0.6% of the Modern metagame over the last 90 days.
Meta share, last 90 days
Held near 0.6% · trend line is 3-week smoothed
Approaches, last 90 days
Weekly breakdown of lists by automatically detected approach
Rising Samwise Combo cards
Cards gaining share within Samwise Combo vs the prior 14 days, adjusted for format-wide play rate.
Maindeck
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abhorrent Oculus | New | 55% | +54.5% |
| City of Brass | 17% | 73% | +56.1% |
| Yawgmoth, Thran Physician | 33% | 100% | +66.7% |
| Ajani, Nacatl Pariah | 17% | 64% | +47% |
| Goblin Bombardment | 17% | 64% | +47% |
| Stomping Ground | 17% | 64% | +47% |
| Dewdrop Cure | 8% | 36% | +28% |
| Breeding Pool | 8% | 27% | +18.9% |
| Misty Rainforest | 42% | 73% | +31.1% |
| Haywire Mite | 67% | 100% | +33.3% |
| Wooded Foothills | 50% | 64% | +13.6% |
| Endurance | 67% | 91% | +24.2% |
Sideboard
| Card | Was | Now | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Witherbloom Charm | New | 64% | +63.6% |
| Lavinia, Azorius Renegade | 8% | 73% | +64.4% |
| Surgical Extraction | New | 36% | +36.4% |
| Vexing Bauble | 25% | 64% | +38.6% |
| High Noon | 8% | 36% | +28% |
| Path to Exile | New | 27% | +27.3% |
| Dauthi Voidwalker | New | 27% | +27.3% |
| Culling Ritual | New | 27% | +27.3% |
| Soulless Jailer | 17% | 27% | +10.6% |
| Masked Vandal | 25% | 36% | +11.4% |
| Gaddock Teeg | 75% | 91% | +15.9% |
| Suncleanser | 83% | 91% | +7.6% |
Typical Modern Samwise Combo maindeck cards
Maindeck adoption across 128 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Birthing Ritual | 4.0 | 100% |
| Boseiju, Who Endures | 1.9 | 100% |
| Cauldron Familiar | 4.0 | 100% |
| Chord of Calling | 4.0 | 100% |
| Forest | 1.1 | 100% |
| Gilded Goose | 4.0 | 100% |
| Overgrown Tomb | 1.9 | 100% |
| Samwise Gamgee | 4.0 | 100% |
| Temple Garden | 1.2 | 100% |
| Verdant Catacombs | 4.0 | 100% |
| Windswept Heath | 4.0 | 100% |
| Dryad Arbor | 1.0 | 99% |
| Godless Shrine | 1.0 | 98% |
| Carrion Feeder | 2.3 | 96% |
| Lush Portico | 1.0 | 96% |
| Viscera Seer | 1.4 | 95% |
| Endurance | 1.0 | 85% |
| Underground Mortuary | 1.0 | 85% |
| Orcish Bowmasters | 2.0 | 79% |
| Young Wolf | 2.5 | 77% |
| Haywire Mite | 1.0 | 73% |
| Sylvan Safekeeper | 1.0 | 58% |
| Badgermole Cub | 3.1 | 56% |
| Malevolent Rumble | 2.2 | 55% |
| Wooded Foothills | 1.5 | 52% |
| Breeding Pool | 1.0 | 49% |
| Abhorrent Oculus | 1.5 | 48% |
| Misty Rainforest | 1.6 | 48% |
| Yawgmoth, Thran Physician | 1.0 | 42% |
| Nurturing Peatland | 1.0 | 39% |
| Witherbloom Charm | 1.9 | 37% |
| Marionette Apprentice | 3.3 | 27% |
| City of Brass | 1.7 | 20% |
| Warren Soultrader | 1.2 | 20% |
| Umbral Collar Zealot | 1.0 | 19% |
| Swamp | 1.0 | 17% |
| Boggart Trawler | 1.0 | 16% |
| Eyetwitch | 4.0 | 15% |
| Renegade Rallier | 1.0 | 15% |
| Professor of Symbology | 1.0 | 14% |
Typical Modern Samwise Combo sideboard
Built from sideboard adoption across 128 decklists in the last 90 days.
Full sideboard card play rate
Per-card sideboard adoption across 128 decklists in the last 90 days. Click a row to filter decklists.
| Card | Avg copies | % |
|---|---|---|
| Force of Vigor | 2.1 | 100% |
| Endurance | 1.5 | 91% |
| Gaddock Teeg | 1.0 | 83% |
| Suncleanser | 1.1 | 82% |
| Thoughtseize | 2.4 | 81% |
| Crystal Barricade | 1.0 | 65% |
| Fatal Push | 2.1 | 62% |
| Drannith Magistrate | 1.1 | 58% |
| Collector Ouphe | 1.0 | 47% |
| Vexing Bauble | 1.5 | 46% |
| Soulless Jailer | 1.0 | 19% |
| Grist, the Hunger Tide | 1.0 | 18% |
| Abrupt Decay | 1.7 | 17% |
| Ruthless Lawbringer | 1.0 | 17% |
| Witherbloom Charm | 1.0 | 17% |
| Lavinia, Azorius Renegade | 1.0 | 16% |
| High Noon | 1.5 | 16% |
| Decorum Dissertation | 1.0 | 15% |
| Origin of Metalbending | 1.0 | 15% |
| Ruinous Waterbending | 1.0 | 15% |
| True Ancestry | 1.0 | 14% |
| Masked Vandal | 1.0 | 12% |
| Enter the Avatar State | 1.0 | 10% |
| Erode | 2.2 | 10% |
| Surgical Extraction | 1.0 | 9% |
| Boromir, Warden of the Tower | 1.0 | 9% |
| Dauthi Voidwalker | 1.0 | 9% |
| Eidolon of Rhetoric | 1.0 | 9% |
| Portable Hole | 1.0 | 9% |
| Mistcaller | 1.0 | 7% |
| Skyclave Apparition | 1.0 | 7% |
| Boseiju, Who Endures | 1.0 | 6% |
| Culling Ritual | 1.8 | 6% |
| Pile On | 1.0 | 6% |
| Damping Sphere | 1.6 | 5% |
| Dai Li Indoctrination | 1.0 | 5% |
| Haywire Mite | 1.3 | 5% |
| Path to Exile | 2.5 | 5% |
| Reduce to Memory | 1.0 | 5% |
| Voice of Victory | 1.0 | 4% |
Samwise Combo Modern FAQ
Is Samwise Combo good in Modern right now?
It's a solid choice — Samwise Combo is 0.6% of Modern decklists in the last two weeks (down 13% vs the prior window), with 1 Challenge win and 1 Top 8. Best recent finish: 1st (8-2) at Modern Challenge 64 on Jul 18, 2026.
What are the key cards in Modern Samwise Combo?
Nearly every list runs Birthing Ritual, Cauldron Familiar, Chord of Calling, and Gilded Goose (99%+ of Modern Samwise Combo decklists in the last 90 days). Builds split 71 Abzan vs 30 WUBG lists.
What's a typical Modern Samwise Combo sideboard?
The most common Modern Samwise Combo sideboard cards over the last 90 days: Force of Vigor (100% of lists), Endurance (91% of lists), Gaddock Teeg (83% of lists), and Suncleanser (82% of lists). Witherbloom Charm is the fastest riser — new this window at 64% of sideboards.
Are there different builds of Modern Samwise Combo?
What does Uniqueness mean?
Uniqueness rates each list from band 1 (Stock) through band 10 (Unique). Higher means a list is more unusual vs recent peers of this strategy.
How many Modern Samwise Combo decklists are there?
Decklist Data tracks 338 Modern Samwise Combo decklists all-time (11 in the last 14 days) from Magic: The Gathering Online (MTGO) Challenges and Leagues. New results are indexed automatically — latest Samwise Combo result Jul 25, 2026.