Card

Gandalf, Shadow's Foe

Mana cost {5}{U}{U}

Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard 3/4

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.

Part of 9 known combos, one of them two-card. 3 official rulings.

Commander
Legal
Printing
Mythic · HOC · #99
Cheapest printing
€20.47
EDHREC salt
—
Color identity
Blue
Keywords
Vigilance, Landfall

Scryfall · EDHREC

Bracket

  • B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Ashaya, Soul of the Wild
  • B3 Upgraded — allowed: Its two-card combos are not early, which Bracket 3 allows
  • B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
  • B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list

Why

  • Two-card combo with Ashaya, Soul of the Wild (none of them early)

How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket

Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags

Combos

9 known combos, one of them two-card.

Combos: Commander Spellbook

Rulings

  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    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).
  • 2026-06-29 · Wizards of the Coast
    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.

Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast

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