
Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell from your hand, you may cast up to one target card of the other type from your graveyard. If a spell cast from your graveyard this way would be put into your graveyard, exile it instead.
Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)
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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.
- Plunder the Trollshaws
- Secrets of the Dead
- Wizards of Thay
- Flow State
- Baral, Chief of Compliance
- Personal Tutor
- Archmage Emeritus
- Gale's Redirection
- Gandalf, Wandering Wizard
- Jace's Sanctum
- Old Fat Spider Can't See Me
- Bilbo Baggins, Burglar
- Confusticate and Bebother
- Solve the Equation
- Brainstorm
- Archmage's Charm
- Talrand, Sky Summoner
- Mystical Tutor
- Preordain
- Snap
- Dirgur Focusmage
- Riddles in the Dark
- Decanter of Endless Water
- Wizard Class
- Font of Magic
- Strategic Planning
- Murmuring Mystic
- Thought Scour
- Ponder
- Merchant Scroll
- Muse Seeker
- Consider
- Naru Meha, Master Wizard
- Serum Visions
- Hydro-Channeler
- Haughty Djinn
- Mindsplice Apparatus
- Arcane Denial
- Archmage of Runes
- Laboratory Maniac
- Gadwick, the Wizened
- Gitaxian Probe
- Bilbo, Thief in the Night
- Narset's Reversal
- Exhibition Tidecaller
- Candlekeep Inspiration
- Frantic Search
- Thassa's Oracle
- Brain Freeze
- Eluge, the Shoreless Sea
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Sol Ring
- Counterspell
- Brainstorm
- Arcane Signet
- Arcane Denial
- Archmage Emeritus
- Sapphire Medallion
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Thought Vessel
- Reliquary Tower
- Negate
- Frantic Search
- Ponder
- Preordain
- Aetherize
- High Tide
- Plunder the Trollshaws
- Mystical Tutor
- Baral, Chief of Compliance
- Archmage's Charm
- Snap
- Secrets of the Dead
- Cyclonic Rift
- Mana Drain
- Opt
- Flow State
- Solve the Equation
- Talrand, Sky Summoner
- Wizards of Thay
- Rhystic Study
- Laboratory Maniac
- Wizard Class
- Rapid Hybridization
- Personal Tutor
- Swan Song
- Jace's Sanctum
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Consider
- Decanter of Endless Water
- Fierce Guardianship
- Gale's Redirection
- Pongify
- Windfall
- Hullbreaker Horror
- Old Fat Spider Can't See Me
- Bilbo Baggins, Burglar
- Gandalf, Wandering Wizard
- Confusticate and Bebother
- Propaganda
Format legality
Rulings
- 2022-06-10
An effect that checks whether you control your commander is satisfied if you control one or both of your two commanders.
- 2022-06-10
Both commanders start in the command zone, and the remaining 98 cards (or 58 cards in a Commander Draft game) of your deck are shuffled to become your library.
- 2022-06-10
Choose a Background is a variant of the partner ability. You may have two commanders if one of them is a legendary creature with the choose a background ability and the other is a legendary Background enchantment. Backgrounds and cards with choose a Background do not interact with cards which have any other partner ability.
- 2022-06-10
If a card refers to a commander creature you own, a Background won't usually be counted or included for that effect. If another spell or ability causes your Background to become a creature, however, it will be included. Any effect that refers to your commander or a commander you own or control without specifying creature will apply to a Background that is your commander, as appropriate.
- 2022-06-10
If something refers to your commander while you have two commanders, it refers to one of them of your choice. If you are instructed to perform an action on your commander (e.g. put it from the command zone into your hand due to Command Beacon), you choose one of your commanders at the time the effect happens.
- 2022-06-10
If you control a Background that grants an ability to commander creatures you own, and you own more than one commander creature, each of them will have that ability.
- 2022-06-10
If your Commander deck has two commanders, you can include only cards whose own color identities are also found in your commanders’ combined color identities.
- 2022-06-10
If your commander loses the choose a Background ability or stops being a Background during the game, as appropriate, it is still your commander.
- 2022-06-10
Once the game begins, your two commanders are tracked separately. If you cast one, you won’t have to pay an additional
the first time you cast the other. A player loses the game after having been dealt 21 combat damage from any one of them, not from both of them combined (although your Background won’t usually be a creature anyway).
- 2022-06-10
You can choose two commanders that are the same color or colors.