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Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Legendary Creature — Human Wizard · {2}{U} · Blue commander

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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What Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy actually does

Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.

• Triggered ability · cast_spellWhenever 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 y
• Keyword · choose a backgroundchoose a background

What a Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy deck needs

Plays as spellslinger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• instant and sorcery spells (its trigger fires on each one you cast)
• self-mill, discard and recursion (the graveyard is a resource its text reads)

The Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 22× Instants and sorceries — for a magecraft/prowess commander the spell COUNT is the engine
• 20× A card that is CAST to trigger the commander — reanimating or blinking it does not count
• 6× Put your own cards into your graveyard as a resource
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Gale, Waterdeep Prodigy

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

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