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Gandalf, the Artifact Blinker (Gandalf, The White, EDH) - Retired
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Est deck cost: $1561.43
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Commander

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Gandalf the White

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.

Creature
Gandalf the White (ltr) 442

Commander

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Instant

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Cloudshift

Exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Instant
Cloudshift (avr) 12
Comeuppance

Prevent all damage that would be dealt to you and planeswalkers you control this turn by sources you don't control. If damage from a creature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to that creature. If damage from a noncreature source is prevented this way, Comeuppance deals that much damage to the source's controller.

Instant
Comeuppance (mkc) 58
Eerie Interlude

Exile any number of target creatures you control. Return those cards to the battlefield under their owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Instant
Eerie Interlude (soi) 16
Enlightened Tutor

Search your library for an artifact or enchantment card, reveal it, then shuffle and put that card on top.

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (dmr) 263
Ephemerate

Exile target creature you control, then return it to the battlefield under its owner's control. Rebound (If you cast this spell from your hand, exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast this card from exile without paying its mana cost.)

Instant
Ephemerate (mh1) 7
Final Showdown

Spree (Choose one or more additional costs.) + {1} — All creatures lose all abilities until end of turn. + {1} — Choose a creature you control. It gains indestructible until end of turn. + {3}{W}{W} — Destroy all creatures.

Instant
Final Showdown (otj) 11
Get Lost

Destroy target creature, enchantment, or planeswalker. Its controller creates two Map tokens. (They're artifacts with "{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Target creature you control explores. Activate only as a sorcery.")

Instant
Get Lost (lci) 333
Path to Exile

Exile target creature. Its controller may search their library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Instant
Path to Exile (dmc) 104
Reprieve

Return target spell to its owner's hand. Draw a card.

Instant
Reprieve (ltr) 26
Swords to Plowshares

Exile target creature. Its controller gains life equal to its power.

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (dmr) 31
Teferi's Protection

Until your next turn, your life total can't change and you gain protection from everything. All permanents you control phase out. (While they're phased out, they're treated as though they don't exist. They phase in before you untap during your untap step.) Exile Teferi's Protection.

Instant
Teferi's Protection (2x2) 343

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Artifact

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Aetherflux Reservoir

Whenever you cast a spell, you gain 1 life for each spell you've cast this turn. Pay 50 life: This artifact deals 50 damage to any target.

Artifact
Aetherflux Reservoir (brr) 65
Altar of the Brood

Whenever another permanent you control enters, each opponent mills a card.

Artifact
Altar of the Brood (ktk) 216
Arcane Signet

{T}: Add one mana of any color in your commander's color identity.

Artifact
Arcane Signet (dmc) 177
Archaeomancer's Map

When this artifact enters, search your library for up to two basic Plains cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle. Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, if that player controls more lands than you, you may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.

Artifact
Archaeomancer's Map (c21) 12
Ashnod's Altar

Sacrifice a creature: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Ashnod's Altar (brr) 67
Basalt Monolith

This artifact doesn't untap during your untap step. {T}: Add {C}{C}{C}. {3}: Untap this artifact.

Artifact
Basalt Monolith (2xm) 232
Cloud Key

As this artifact enters, choose artifact, creature, enchantment, instant, or sorcery. Spells you cast of the chosen type cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Cloud Key (brr) 75
Conjurer's Closet

At the beginning of your end step, you may exile target creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Artifact
Conjurer's Closet (pw21) 6
Coveted Jewel

When this artifact enters, draw three cards. {T}: Add three mana of any one color. Whenever one or more creatures an opponent controls attack you and aren't blocked, that player draws three cards and gains control of this artifact. Untap it.

Artifact
Coveted Jewel (moc) 353
Ichor Wellspring

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact
Ichor Wellspring (brr) 21
Krark-Clan Ironworks

Sacrifice an artifact: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Krark-Clan Ironworks (5dn) 134
Mind Stone

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Draw a card.

Artifact
Mind Stone (pw21) 5
Mox Amber

{T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creatures and planeswalkers you control.

Artifact
Mox Amber (brr) 35
Mycosynth Wellspring

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Mycosynth Wellspring (nph) 145
Mystic Forge

You may look at the top card of your library any time. You may cast artifact spells and colorless spells from the top of your library. {T}, Pay 1 life: Exile the top card of your library.

Artifact
Mystic Forge (brr) 36
Panharmonicon

If an artifact or creature entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

Artifact
Panharmonicon (2x2) 310
Pearl Medallion

White spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Artifact
Pearl Medallion (cmm) 401
Prized Statue

When this artifact enters or is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Artifact
Prized Statue (clb) 334
Rings of Brighthearth

Whenever you activate an ability, if it isn't a mana ability, you may pay {2}. If you do, copy that ability. You may choose new targets for the copy.

Artifact
Rings of Brighthearth (ltc) 352
Sensei's Divining Top

{1}: Look at the top three cards of your library, then put them back in any order. {T}: Draw a card, then put this artifact on top of its owner's library.

Artifact
Sensei's Divining Top (plst) EMA-232
Sol Ring

{T}: Add {C}{C}.

Artifact
Sol Ring (cmm) 703
Sword of Hearth and Home

Equipped creature gets +2/+2 and has protection from green and from white. Whenever equipped creature deals combat damage to a player, exile up to one target creature you own, then search your library for a basic land card. Put both cards onto the battlefield under your control, then shuffle. Equip {2}

Artifact
Sword of Hearth and Home (mh2) 324
The One Ring

Indestructible When The One Ring enters, if you cast it, you gain protection from everything until your next turn. At the beginning of your upkeep, you lose 1 life for each burden counter on The One Ring. {T}: Put a burden counter on The One Ring, then draw a card for each burden counter on The One Ring.

Artifact
The One Ring (ltr) 246
Thought Vessel

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact
Thought Vessel (brc) 167
Throne of Eldraine

As Throne of Eldraine enters, choose a color. {T}: Add four mana of the chosen color. Spend this mana only to cast monocolored spells of that color. {3}, {T}: Draw two cards. Spend only mana of the chosen color to activate this ability.

Artifact
Throne of Eldraine (woc) 40
Unwinding Clock

Untap all artifacts you control during each other player's untap step.

Artifact
Unwinding Clock (brr) 61
Wedding Ring

When this artifact enters, if it was cast, target opponent creates a token that's a copy of it. Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring draws a card during their turn, you draw a card. Whenever an opponent who controls an artifact named Wedding Ring gains life during their turn, you gain that much life.

Artifact
Wedding Ring (voc) 32

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Land

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Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (brc) 172
Ancient Tomb

{T}: Add {C}{C}. This land deals 2 damage to you.

Land
Ancient Tomb (ltc) 357
Buried Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Land
Buried Ruin (onc) 147
Darksteel Citadel

Indestructible {T}: Add {C}.

Artifact Land
Darksteel Citadel (brc) 180
Demolition Field

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. That land's controller may search their library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. You may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land
Demolition Field (bro) 260
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire

{T}: Add {W}. Channel — {2}{W}, Discard this card: It deals 4 damage to target attacking or blocking creature. This ability costs {1} less to activate for each legendary creature you control.

Land
Eiganjo, Seat of the Empire (neo) 268
Emeria, the Sky Ruin

This land enters tapped. At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control seven or more Plains, you may return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield. {T}: Add {W}.

Land
Emeria, the Sky Ruin (plst) ZEN-213
Fomori Vault

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Discard a card: Look at the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of artifacts you control. Put one of those cards into your hand and the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Land
Fomori Vault (big) 29
Homeward Path

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Each player gains control of all creatures they own.

Land
Homeward Path (ltc) 365
Inventors' Fair

At the beginning of your upkeep, if you control three or more artifacts, you gain 1 life. {T}: Add {C}. {4}, {T}, Sacrifice Inventors' Fair: Search your library for an artifact card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle. Activate only if you control three or more artifacts.

Land
Inventors' Fair (plst) KLD-247
Minas Tirith

Minas Tirith enters tapped unless you control a legendary creature. {T}: Add {W}. {1}{W}, {T}: Draw a card. Activate only if you attacked with two or more creatures this turn.

Land
Minas Tirith (ltr) 341
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)

Land
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx (plst) THS-223
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (one) 267
Reliquary Tower

You have no maximum hand size. {T}: Add {C}.

Land
Reliquary Tower (brc) 196
The Mycosynth Gardens

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}: Add one mana of any color. {X}, {T}: This land becomes a copy of target nontoken artifact you control with mana value X.

Land
The Mycosynth Gardens (one) 402
Urza's Saga

(As this Saga enters and after your draw step, add a lore counter. Sacrifice after III.) I — This Saga gains "{T}: Add {C}." II — This Saga gains "{2}, {T}: Create a 0/0 colorless Construct artifact creature token with 'This token gets +1/+1 for each artifact you control.'" III — Search your library for an artifact card with mana cost {0} or {1}, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle.

Land Enchantment
Urza's Saga (mh2) 259
War Room

{T}: Add {C}. {3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.

Land
War Room (clb) 929
Wasteland

{T}: Add {C}. {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land.

Land
Wasteland (ltc) 376

Land

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Creature

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Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward

When Abdel Adrian enters, exile any number of other nonland permanents you control until Abdel Adrian leaves the battlefield. Create a 1/1 white Soldier creature token for each permanent exiled this way. Choose a Background (You can have a Background as a second commander.)

Creature
Abdel Adrian, Gorion's Ward (clb) 375
Boromir, Warden of the Tower

Vigilance Whenever an opponent casts a spell, if no mana was spent to cast it, counter that spell. Sacrifice Boromir: Creatures you control gain indestructible until end of turn. The Ring tempts you.

Creature
Boromir, Warden of the Tower (ltr) 302
Canoptek Spyder

Flying Fabricator Claw Array — Whenever another nontoken artifact creature or Vehicle you control enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Canoptek Spyder (40k) 151
Circuit Mender

When this creature enters, you gain 2 life. When this creature leaves the battlefield, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Circuit Mender (neo) 242
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines

Vigilance If a permanent entering causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time. Permanents entering don't cause abilities of permanents your opponents control to trigger.

Creature
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines (one) 298
Esper Sentinel

Whenever an opponent casts their first noncreature spell each turn, draw a card unless that player pays {X}, where X is this creature's power.

Creature Artifact
Esper Sentinel (mh2) 12
Ethersworn Canonist

Each player who has cast a nonartifact spell this turn can't cast additional nonartifact spells.

Creature Artifact
Ethersworn Canonist (2xm) 14
Foundry Inspector

Artifact spells you cast cost {1} less to cast.

Creature Artifact
Foundry Inspector (brr) 79
Glorious Protector

Flash Flying When this creature enters, you may exile any number of non-Angel creatures you control until this creature leaves the battlefield. Foretell {2}{W}

Creature
Glorious Protector (khm) 12
Jhoira's Familiar

Flying Historic spells you cast cost {1} less to cast. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Creature Artifact
Jhoira's Familiar (dom) 220
Loran of the Third Path

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

Creature
Loran of the Third Path (bro) 12
Loran, Disciple of History

Whenever Loran or another legendary creature you control enters, return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature
Loran, Disciple of History (bro) 13
Myr Retriever

When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Artifact
Myr Retriever (2xm) 277
Oswald Fiddlebender

Magical Tinkering — {W}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with mana value equal to 1 plus the sacrificed artifact's mana value, put it onto the battlefield, then shuffle. Activate only as a sorcery.

Creature
Oswald Fiddlebender (afr) 28
Phyrexian Revoker

As this creature enters, choose a nonland card name. Activated abilities of sources with the chosen name can't be activated.

Creature Artifact
Phyrexian Revoker (brr) 40
Preston, the Vanisher

Whenever another nontoken creature you control enters, if it wasn't cast, create a token that's a copy of that creature, except it's a 0/1 white Illusion. {1}{W}, Sacrifice five Illusions: Exile target nonland permanent.

Creature
Preston, the Vanisher (j22) 8
Ratchet, Field Medic

Creature Artifact
Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer (bot) 17Ratchet, Field Medic // Ratchet, Rescue Racer (bot) 17
Restoration Angel

Flash Flying When this creature enters, you may exile target non-Angel creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under your control.

Creature
Restoration Angel (tsr) 300
Scrap Trawler

Whenever this creature dies or another artifact you control is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, return to your hand target artifact card in your graveyard with lesser mana value.

Creature Artifact
Scrap Trawler (brr) 49
Skrelv, Defector Mite

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) Skrelv can't block. {W/P}, {T}: Choose a color. Another target creature you control gains toxic 1 and hexproof from that color until end of turn. It can't be blocked by creatures of that color this turn. ({W/P} can be paid with either {W} or 2 life.)

Creature Artifact
Skrelv, Defector Mite (one) 33
Solemn Simulacrum

When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. When this creature dies, you may draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Solemn Simulacrum (sld) 791★
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle

Flying Whenever you cast a historic spell, return target creature card with mana value 3 or less from your graveyard to the battlefield. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Creature
Teshar, Ancestor's Apostle (dmc) 105
Witch Enchanter

Creature
Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239Witch Enchanter // Witch-Blessed Meadow (mh3) 239

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Planeswalker

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The Eternal Wanderer

No more than one creature can attack The Eternal Wanderer each combat. +1: Exile up to one target artifact or creature. Return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of that player's next end step. 0: Create a 2/2 white Samurai creature token with double strike. −4: For each player, choose a creature that player controls. Each player sacrifices all creatures they control not chosen this way.

Planeswalker
The Eternal Wanderer (one) 335

Planeswalker

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Enchantment

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Land Tax

At the beginning of your upkeep, if an opponent controls more lands than you, you may search your library for up to three basic land cards, reveal them, put them into your hand, then shuffle.

Enchantment
Land Tax (wot) 9
Smothering Tithe

Whenever an opponent draws a card, that player may pay {2}. If the player doesn't, you create a Treasure token. (It's an artifact with "{T}, Sacrifice this token: Add one mana of any color.")

Enchantment
Smothering Tithe (wot) 67
Teleportation Circle

At the beginning of your end step, exile up to one target artifact or creature you control, then return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control.

Enchantment
Teleportation Circle (afr) 39
Touch the Spirit Realm

When this enchantment enters, exile up to one target artifact or creature until this enchantment leaves the battlefield. Channel — {1}{W}, Discard this card: Exile target artifact or creature. Return it to the battlefield under its owner's control at the beginning of the next end step.

Enchantment
Touch the Spirit Realm (gdy) 4

Enchantment

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Sorcery

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Brilliant Restoration

Return all artifact and enchantment cards from your graveyard to the battlefield.

Sorcery
Brilliant Restoration (neo) 363
Farewell

Choose one or more — • Exile all artifacts. • Exile all creatures. • Exile all enchantments. • Exile all graveyards.

Sorcery
Farewell (neo) 365

Sorcery

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Maybeboard

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Annex Sentry

Toxic 1 (Players dealt combat damage by this creature also get a poison counter.) When this creature enters, exile target artifact or creature an opponent controls with mana value 3 or less until this creature leaves the battlefield.

Creature Artifact
Annex Sentry (one) 2
Castle Ardenvale

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{W}, {T}: Create a 1/1 white Human creature token.

Land
Castle Ardenvale (ltc) 361
Disenchant

Destroy target artifact or enchantment.

Instant
Disenchant (bro) 6
Dusk Rose Reliquary

As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice an artifact or creature. Ward {2} When this artifact enters, exile target artifact or creature an opponent controls until this artifact leaves the battlefield.

Artifact
Dusk Rose Reliquary (lci) 10
Lembas

When this artifact enters, scry 1, then draw a card. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: You gain 3 life. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, its owner shuffles it into their library.

Artifact
Lembas (ltr) 243
Lightning Greaves

Equipped creature has haste and shroud. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities.) Equip {0}

Artifact
Lightning Greaves (who) 243
Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd

Flash Whenever Phelia attacks, exile up to one other target nonland permanent. At the beginning of the next end step, return that card to the battlefield under its owner's control. If it entered under your control, put a +1/+1 counter on Phelia.

Creature
Phelia, Exuberant Shepherd (mh3) 40
Semblance Anvil

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile a nonland card from your hand. Spells you cast that share a card type with the exiled card cost {2} less to cast.

Artifact
Semblance Anvil (som) 201
Thousand Moons Smithy

Artifact
Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand (lci) 39Thousand Moons Smithy // Barracks of the Thousand (lci) 39
Urza's Ruinous Blast

(You may cast a legendary sorcery only if you control a legendary creature or planeswalker.) Exile all nonland permanents that aren't legendary.

Sorcery
Urza's Ruinous Blast (dom) 39
Walking Ballista

This creature enters with X +1/+1 counters on it. {4}: Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature. Remove a +1/+1 counter from this creature: It deals 1 damage to any target.

Creature Artifact
Walking Ballista (j22) 806
Wizard's Rockets

This artifact enters tapped. {X}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add X mana in any combination of colors. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact
Wizard's Rockets (ltr) 400
Workshop Assistant

When this creature dies, return another target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Artifact
Workshop Assistant (cmr) 348

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31 mana - 26 cards
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{"ops":[{"insert":"Ramp up and than win with various combo pieces such as Felidar Guardian + Restoration Angel + Altar of the Brood/Aetherflux Reservoir or Mystic Forge + Sensei's Divining Top + Foundry Inspector/Cloud Key/Jhoira's Familiar + Aetherflux Reservoir, or Basalt Monolith + Rings of Brighthearth + Sensei's Divining Top. There is also a lot of tutoring to get out your combo pieces more reliable.\n"}]}
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