Card
Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
Mana cost {3}{U}
Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard 2/4
Flash You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Gandalf as your Ring-bearer, draw a card.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 10 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Uncommon · LTR · #50
- Cheapest printing
- €0.08
- EDHREC salt
- 0.07
- Color identity
- Blue
- Keywords
- Flash
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
10 known combos.
- Approach of the Second Sun + Memory Lapse + Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
Produces: Win the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Ashling, Flame Dancer + Worldfire + Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
Produces: Each opponent loses the game, Exile all cards in hands and graveyards, Exile all permanents
View on Commander Spellbook - Approach of the Second Sun + Hinder + Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
Produces: Win the game
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
The second ability applies only to casting spells. It does not, for example, change when you may activate abilities that can be activated "only as a sorcery." - 2023-06-16 · Wizards of the Coast
If the creature you choose as your Ring-bearer was already your Ring-bearer, that still counts as choosing that creature as your Ring-bearer for the purpose of abilities that trigger "whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer" or abilities that care about which creature was chosen as your Ring-bearer.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast