Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard
Vigilance
When Gandalf enters, exile up to three target lands you control, then return them to the battlefield tapped under their owner's control.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Gandalf.
3 / 4
- Set
- The Hobbit Eternal (HOC #99)
- Rarity
- Mythic
- Mana value
- 7
- Released
- 2026-08-14
- Artist
- Alexander Mokhov
- EDHREC rank
- #17,779
- Colour identity
- Finishes
- Nonfoil
- 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 9
All 9 combos.
Commander recommendations
Top synergy 50
Played far more in this commander's decks than elsewhere.
- Amulet of Vigor
- Tiller Engine
- Retreat to Coralhelm
- Walking Atlas
- Roil Elemental
- PuPu UFO
- Ghostly Flicker
- Starfield Vocalist
- Essence Flux
- Elven Raft-Steerer
- Dreamscape Artist
- Displacer Kitten
- Deadeye Navigator
- Silver Surfer, Cosmic Voyager
- Wizard's Staff
- Fabled Passage
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Guildless Commons
- Ruin Crab
- Grappling Kraken
- Terrain Generator
- Panharmonicon
- Troop of Ponies
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Burnished Hart
- Roll-Roll-Roll-Roll
- Displace
- Cosima, God of the Voyage
- Sword of Hearth and Home
- Snap
- Weather Maker
- Patron of the Moon
- Arid Archway
- Sword of the Animist
- Polluted Delta
- Flooded Strand
- Planar Incision
- Virtue of Knowledge
- Hedron Crab
- Oboro, Palace in the Clouds
- Roil Cartographer
- Scalding Tarn
- Expedition Map
- Trinket Mage
- Teferi's Time Twist
- Misty Rainforest
- Field of the Dead
- H.E.R.B.I.E. Scout Unit
- Conjurer's Closet
Most included 50
Highest share of decks running them, distinctive or not.
- Island
- Sol Ring
- Ghostly Flicker
- Amulet of Vigor
- Walking Atlas
- Mystic Sanctuary
- Retreat to Coralhelm
- Tiller Engine
- Sapphire Medallion
- PuPu UFO
- Essence Flux
- Roil Elemental
- Starfield Vocalist
- Arcane Signet
- Counterspell
- Displacer Kitten
- High Tide
- Reliquary Tower
- Wayfarer's Bauble
- Solemn Simulacrum
- Elven Raft-Steerer
- Dreamscape Artist
- Deadeye Navigator
- Snap
- Thought Vessel
- Pongify
- Ruin Crab
- Myriad Landscape
- Wizard's Staff
- Rapid Hybridization
- An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Terrain Generator
- Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
- Silver Surfer, Cosmic Voyager
- Fabled Passage
- Arcane Denial
- Frantic Search
- Guildless Commons
- Burnished Hart
- Panharmonicon
- Cyclonic Rift
- Troop of Ponies
- Sink into Stupor
- Sink into Stupor
- Grappling Kraken
- Urza's Saga
- Displace
- Polluted Delta
- Flooded Strand
- Swan Song
Format legality
Rulings
- 2026-06-29
A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.
- 2026-06-29
A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.
- 2026-06-29
Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (as a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing).