Hearkening a card that would not be released until the Mines of Moria expansion (although a promotional copy was also available), Sam, Faithful Companion can tutor the site twilight number reducing Bill the Pony from the draw deck. With two copies of Bill the Pony in the draw deck, the Free Peoples player could usually ensure having one available for sites 2-4 and sites 7-9 (As long as they are not both drawn very early). With Bill the Pony X-listed in Movie Block, Sam, Faithful Companion only offers a boon in Fellowship Block, Towers Standard and Expanded formats.

The Frodo signet allows access to Frodo's Pipe, Dear Friends recycling, and skirmish wounding of Mind Your Own Affairs and No Use That Way, though in later blocks Sam, Frodo's Gardener and Sam, Resolute Halfling offer significantly more while also possessing the Frodo signet. Like all Pre-shadows versions of Sam, this character is Ring-Bound and can take the Ring from Frodo upon the latter's death.

• Expensive minions
• Seen primarily in Choke Decks
• Frodo signet allows access to Frodo's Pipe, Dear Friends recycling, and skirmish wounding of Mind Your Own Affairs and No Use That Way

• Useless in formats where Bill the Pony is X-listed
• Helpless
• Underground sites
• Does not offer as much utility as Sam, Son of Hamfast or Sam, Proper Poet

Fellowship Block ”A Promise” Choke Deck by ket_the_jet

Starting Fellowship
Ring-bearer: Frodo, Old Bilbo's Heir
Ring: The One Ring, Isildur's Bane
1x Gimli, Dwarf of the Mountain-race
1x Sam, Faithful Companion

Free Peoples Draw Deck
1x Aragorn, Ranger of the North
1x Thrarin, Dwarven Smith
1x Bilbo, Well-spoken Gentlehobbit
1x Bounder
1x Filibert Bolger, Wily Rascal
1x Rosie Cotton, Hobbiton Lass
1x Dwarven Armor
1x Dwarven Axe
1x Gimli's Helm
1x Hand Axe
2x Bill the Pony
1x Hobbit Sword
1x Sting
1x Mithril-coat
2x Hobbit Intuition
2x Hobbit Stealth
1x Greatest Kingdom of My People
2x Till Durin Wakes Again
4x A Promise
1x A Talent for Not Being Seen
1x Consorting With Wizards
1x O Elbereth! Gilthoniel!
1x There and Back Again
2x Three Monstrous Trolls