It counters Hosts of Mordor strongly
Samwise Gamgee Combo (3.5% of the Winner's Metagame) 4 Cauldron Familiar 4 Gilded Goose 4 Samwise Gamgee 4 Viscera Seer 4 Birthing Ritual 4 Chord of Calling 4 Verdant Catacombs 4 Windswept Heath 3 Wall of Roots 2 Boseiju, Who Endures 2 Overgrown Tomb 2 Temple Garden 2 Orcish Bowmasters 2 Young Wolf 2 Thoughtseize 1 Dryad Arbor 1 Forest 1 Godless Shrine 1 Lush Portico 1 Underground Mortuary 1 Grist, the Hunger Tide 1 Wooded Foothills 1 Sylvan Safekeeper 1 Haywire Mite 1 Nurturing Peatland 1 Swamp 1 Brightglass Gearhulk 1 Skyclave Apparition 3 Force of Vigor 2 Fatal Push 2 Veil of Summer 2 Thoughtseize 1 Drannith Magistrate 1 Suncleanser 1 Crystal Barricade 1 Endurance 1 Enduring Innocence 1 Collector Ouphe Samwise Gamgee Combo is a creature-based combo deck that revolves around the trifecta of Samwise Gamgee, Viscera Seer, and Cauldron Familiar
There are plenty of other great reprints between Special Guests, Imagine: Critters, and reprints with new art in the Commander precons, so I hope that your some of your favorites were included as well
In the last match, because some rules were not laid out clearly, I conceded to not using my correction, which would have greatly shifted the tides of the match
Best Gate Payoffs I've brought up Circuitous Route, Navigation Orb, and Explore the Underdark a couple times, largely because they're some of the best reasons to play gates
