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Gandalf the White

Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard · {3}{W}{W} · White commander

Flash You may cast legendary spells and artifact spells as though they had flash. If a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

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What Gandalf the White actually does

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

• Static ability · restrictionYou may cast legendary spells and artifact spells as though they had flash.
• Replacement effect · trigger_doublerIf a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
• Keyword · flashflash

What a Gandalf the White deck needs

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

• legendary permanents and artifacts with enter or leave triggers (only those are doubled)
• flash — legendary and artifact spells can be cast at instant speed

The Gandalf the White deck plan

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

• 16× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 12× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
• 11× Get ahead on mana
• 12× A permanent of the exact NON-creature type the commander counts — artifacts for an artifact commander, enchantments for an enchantress

Best cards for Gandalf the White

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.

Combos with Gandalf the White

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Gandalf the White is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Gandalf the White + Scrap Trawler + Myr Retriever + Krark-Clan Ironworks1,693 decks
• Gandalf the White + Junk Diver + Myr Retriever + Krark-Clan Ironworks1,409 decks
• Gandalf the White + Workshop Assistant + Myr Retriever + Krark-Clan Ironworks1,083 decks
• Gandalf the White + Junk Diver + Workshop Assistant + Krark-Clan Ironworks1,001 decks
• Gandalf the White + Urza, Lord High Artificer + Deadeye Navigator137 decks
• Gandalf the White + Time Sieve + Myr Battlesphere + Conjurer's Closet20 decks

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