Gandalf the Grey
Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, choose one that hasn't been chosen —
• You may tap or untap target permanent.
• Gandalf deals 3 damage to each opponent.
• Copy target instant or sorcery spell you control. You may choose new targets for the copy.
• Put Gandalf on top of its owner's library.
3 / 4
- Set
- The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR #814)
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana value
- 5
- Released
- 2023-11-03
- Artist
- Anato Finnstark
- EDHREC rank
- #7,405
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Foil
- Served from
- Local database
Commander bracket
Derived from card traits, not a ruling — bracket rules turn on how a deck intends to use a card. Bracket rules
EDHREC
Combos
Not part of any combo on Commander Spellbook.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Flame of Anor
- Fiery Inscription
- Ghostly Flicker
- Gandalf's Sanction
- Essence Flux
- Blur
- Planar Incision
- Guttersnipe
- Displacer Kitten
- Archaeomancer
- Glamdring
- Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
- Display of Power
- Archmage Emeritus
- Erebor Flamesmith
- Riptide Laboratory
- Goblin Electromancer
- Opt
- Lightning Bolt
- Gandalf, Goblins' Bane
- Thousand-Year Storm
- Wizard's Staff
- Rivendell
- Storm-Kiln Artist
- Harmonic Prodigy
- Preordain
- Glamdring, Foe-hammer
- Talrand, Sky Summoner
- Dualcaster Mage
- Consider
- Baral, Chief of Compliance
- Meneldor, Swift Savior
- Abrade
- Birthday Escape
- Storm of Saruman
- Displace
- Lórien Revealed
- Archmage of Runes
- Veyran, Voice of Duality
- Press the Enemy
- Mines of Moria
- Brainstorm
- Teferi's Time Twist
- Mana Geyser
- Conjurer's Closet
- Blasphemous Act
- Expressive Iteration
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Gilded Lotus
- Frantic Search
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Mountain
- Sol Ring
- Command Tower
- Arcane Signet
- Flame of Anor
- Sulfur Falls
- Archmage Emeritus
- Guttersnipe
- Storm-Kiln Artist
- Opt
- Counterspell
- Fiery Inscription
- Brainstorm
- Goblin Electromancer
- Frantic Search
- Lightning Bolt
- Preordain
- Izzet Signet
- Shivan Reef
- Blasphemous Act
- Ghostly Flicker
- Gandalf's Sanction
- Essence Flux
- Frostboil Snarl
- Reliquary Tower
- Talisman of Creativity
- Izzet Boilerworks
- Ponder
- Stormcarved Coast
- Chaos Warp
- Consider
- Temple of Epiphany
- Negate
- Thousand-Year Storm
- Displacer Kitten
- Cascade Bluffs
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Blur
- Thought Vessel
- Planar Incision
- Harmonic Prodigy
- Archaeomancer
- Abrade
- Steam Vents
- Mana Geyser
- Expressive Iteration
- Erebor Flamesmith
- Glamdring
- Snap
Format legality
Rulings
- 2023-06-16
If the ability doesn't resolve (either for having its target become illegal or because a spell or ability counters it), the mode chosen for that instance of the ability still counts as being chosen.
- 2023-06-16
It doesn't matter who has chosen any particular mode. For example, say you control Gandalf the Grey and have chosen the first two modes. If an opponent gains control of Gandalf the Grey, that player can choose only the third or fourth mode.
- 2023-06-16
The phrase "that hasn't been chosen" refers only to that specific Gandalf the Grey. If Gandalf the Grey leaves the battlefield (possibly because of the fourth mode of its ability) and then returns to the battlefield later, it will be a new object with no memory of the modes chosen when it was last on the battlefield.
- 2023-06-16
You choose the mode as the triggered ability goes on the stack. You can choose a mode that requires targets only if there are legal targets available.