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Gandalf the White: Cheap Tricks
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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) 19

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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 (plst) KLD-192
Arcane Signet

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

Artifact
Arcane Signet (scd) 257
Chromatic Star

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add one mana of any color. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact
Chromatic Star (brr) 11
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
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
Essence Reliquary

{T}: Return another target permanent you control and all Auras you control attached to it to their owner's hand. Activate only during your turn.

Artifact
Essence Reliquary (mh3) 24
Gonti's Aether Heart

Whenever Gonti's Aether Heart or another artifact you control enters, you get {E}{E} (two energy counters). Pay eight {E}, Exile Gonti's Aether Heart: Take an extra turn after this one.

Artifact
Gonti's Aether Heart (aer) 152
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
Mind Stone

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

Artifact
Mind Stone (ima) 219
Moonsilver Key

{1}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for an artifact card with a mana ability or a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.

Artifact
Moonsilver Key (mid) 255
Mox Amber

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

Artifact
Mox Amber (dom) 224
Relic of Legends

{T}: Add one mana of any color. Tap an untapped legendary creature you control: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Relic of Legends (dmu) 236
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 (brr) 52
Skyclave Relic

Kicker {3} Indestructible When this artifact enters, if it was kicked, create two tapped tokens that are copies of this artifact. {T}: Add one mana of any color.

Artifact
Skyclave Relic (moc) 380
Sol Ring

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

Artifact
Sol Ring (scd) 276
Terrarion

This artifact enters tapped. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Add two mana in any combination of colors. When this artifact is put into a graveyard from the battlefield, draw a card.

Artifact
Terrarion (emn) 201
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) 451
Umbilicus

At the beginning of each player's upkeep, that player may pay 2 life. If they don't, they return a permanent they control to its owner's hand.

Artifact
Umbilicus (usg) 312
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

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Ancestral Statue

When this creature enters, return a nonland permanent you control to its owner's hand.

Creature Artifact
Ancestral Statue (jmp) 458
Archivist of Oghma

Flash Whenever an opponent searches their library, you gain 1 life and draw a card.

Creature
Archivist of Oghma (clb) 4
Aven Interrupter

Flash Flying When this creature enters, exile target spell. It becomes plotted. (Its owner may cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost.) Spells your opponents cast from graveyards or from exile cost {2} more to cast.

Creature
Aven Interrupter (otj) 4
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) 4
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
Cataclysmic Gearhulk

Vigilance When this creature enters, each player chooses an artifact, a creature, an enchantment, and a planeswalker from among the nonland permanents they control, then sacrifices the rest.

Creature Artifact
Cataclysmic Gearhulk (kld) 9
Combat Thresher

Prototype {2}{W} — 1/1 (You may cast this spell with different mana cost, color, and size. It keeps its abilities and types.) Double strike When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Combat Thresher (bro) 35
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun

Daxos's toughness is equal to your devotion to white. (Each {W} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to white.) Whenever another creature you control enters or dies, you gain 1 life.

Creature Enchantment
Daxos, Blessed by the Sun (thb) 9
Deep Gnome Terramancer

Flash Mold Earth — Whenever one or more lands enter under an opponent's control without being played, you may search your library for a Plains card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle. Do this only once each turn.

Creature
Deep Gnome Terramancer (clb) 658
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) 10
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 (h2r) 2
Foundry Inspector

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

Creature Artifact
Foundry Inspector (brr) 16
Frogmite

Affinity for artifacts (This spell costs {1} less to cast for each artifact you control.)

Creature Artifact
Frogmite (plst) MM2-215
Glaring Fleshraker

Whenever you cast a colorless spell, create a 0/1 colorless Eldrazi Spawn creature token with "Sacrifice this token: Add {C}." Whenever another colorless creature you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to each opponent.

Creature
Glaring Fleshraker (mh3) 7
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
Leonin Elder

Whenever an artifact enters, you may gain 1 life.

Creature
Leonin Elder (mrd) 10
Lion Sash

{W}: Exile target card from a graveyard. If it was a permanent card, put a +1/+1 counter on this permanent. Equipped creature gets +1/+1 for each +1/+1 counter on this Equipment. Reconfigure {2} ({2}: Attach to target creature you control; or unattach from a creature. Reconfigure only as a sorcery. While attached, this isn't a creature.)

Creature Artifact
Lion Sash (neo) 26
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
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar

Prevent all combat damage that would be dealt to attacking artifact creatures you control. Whenever one or more artifact creatures you control enter, draw a card. This ability triggers only once each turn.

Creature
Losheel, Clockwork Scholar (cmm) 38
Myr Retriever

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

Creature Artifact
Myr Retriever (mrd) 215
Oltec Matterweaver

Whenever you cast a creature spell, choose one — • Create a 1/1 colorless Gnome artifact creature token. • Create a token that's a copy of target artifact token you control.

Creature
Oltec Matterweaver (big) 68
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
Samwise the Stouthearted

Flash When Samwise enters, choose up to one target permanent card in your graveyard that was put there from the battlefield this turn. Return it to your hand. Then the Ring tempts you.

Creature
Samwise the Stouthearted (ltr) 306
Sanctum Gargoyle

Flying When this creature enters, you may return target artifact card from your graveyard to your hand.

Creature Artifact
Sanctum Gargoyle (mma) 28
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
Skyscanner

Flying When this creature enters, draw a card.

Creature Artifact
Skyscanner (m21) 238
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 (pfdn) 257s
Treasure Keeper

When this creature dies, reveal cards from the top of your library until you reveal a nonland card with mana value 3 or less. You may cast that card without paying its mana cost. Put all revealed cards not cast this way on the bottom of your library in a random order.

Creature Artifact
Treasure Keeper (clb) 341
Voyager Quickwelder

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

Creature Artifact
Voyager Quickwelder (dft) 37

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Enchantment

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Meticulous Excavation

{2}{W}: Return target permanent you control to its owner's hand. If it has unearth, instead exile it, then return that card to its owner's hand. Activate only during your turn.

Enchantment
Meticulous Excavation (bro) 16

Enchantment

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Enlightened Tutor

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

Instant
Enlightened Tutor (plst) MIR-14
Galadriel's Dismissal

Kicker {2}{W} (You may pay an additional {2}{W} as you cast this spell.) Target creature phases out. If this spell was kicked, each creature target player controls phases out instead. (Treat phased-out creatures and anything attached to them as though they don't exist until their controller's next turn.)

Instant
Galadriel's Dismissal (ltc) 500
Generous Gift

Destroy target permanent. Its controller creates a 3/3 green Elephant creature token.

Instant
Generous Gift (cmm) 624
Orim's Chant

Kicker {W} (You may pay an additional {W} as you cast this spell.) Target player can't cast spells this turn. If this spell was kicked, creatures can't attack this turn.

Instant
Orim's Chant (mh3) 265
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 (2xm) 25
Reprieve

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

Instant
Reprieve (ltr) 26
Soul Partition

Exile target nonland permanent. For as long as that card remains exiled, its owner may play it. A spell cast by an opponent this way costs {2} more to cast.

Instant
Soul Partition (bro) 26
Swords to Plowshares

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

Instant
Swords to Plowshares (ncc) 211
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 (plst) C17-8

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Land

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Ancient Den

{T}: Add {W}.

Artifact Land
Ancient Den (tsr) 403
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 (plst) MM2-238
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) 413
Field of Ruin

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.

Land
Field of Ruin (thb) 242
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) 420
Mishra's Factory

{T}: Add {C}. {1}: This land becomes a 2/2 Assembly-Worker artifact creature until end of turn. It's still a land. {T}: Target Assembly-Worker creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.

Land
Mishra's Factory (dmr) 251
Monumental Henge

This land enters tapped unless you control a Plains. {T}: Add {W}. {2}{W}{W}, {T}: Look at the top five cards of your library. You may reveal a historic card from among them and put it into your hand. Put the rest on the bottom of your library in a random order. (Artifacts, legendaries, and Sagas are historic.)

Land
Monumental Henge (mh3) 222
Myriad Landscape

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Search your library for up to two basic land cards that share a land type, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.

Land
Myriad Landscape (woc) 164
Phyrexia's Core

{T}: Add {C}. {1}, {T}, Sacrifice an artifact: You gain 1 life.

Land
Phyrexia's Core (c21) 309
Plains

({T}: Add {W}.)

Land
Plains (woe) 267
Plaza of Heroes

{T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color. Spend this mana only to cast a legendary spell. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary permanents you control. {3}, {T}, Exile this land: Target legendary creature gains hexproof and indestructible until end of turn.

Land
Plaza of Heroes (dmu) 252
Razorgrass Ambush

Instant
Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field back (mh3) 238Razorgrass Ambush // Razorgrass Field back (mh3) 238
Reliquary Tower

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

Land
Reliquary Tower (lcc) 348
Scavenger Grounds

{T}: Add {C}. {2}, {T}, Sacrifice a Desert: Exile all graveyards.

Land
Scavenger Grounds (otc) 316
Secluded Steppe

This land enters tapped. {T}: Add {W}. Cycling {W} ({W}, Discard this card: Draw a card.)

Land
Secluded Steppe (onc) 163
The Grey Havens

When The Grey Havens enters, scry 1. {T}: Add {C}. {T}: Add one mana of any color among legendary creature cards in your graveyard.

Land
The Grey Havens (ltr) 706
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

Land

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Planeswalker

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Karn, the Great Creator

Activated abilities of artifacts your opponents control can't be activated. +1: Until your next turn, up to one target noncreature artifact becomes an artifact creature with power and toughness each equal to its mana value. −2: You may reveal an artifact card you own from outside the game or choose a face-up artifact card you own in exile. Put that card into your hand.

Planeswalker
Karn, the Great Creator (war) 1
Ugin, Eye of the Storms

When you cast this spell, exile up to one target permanent that's one or more colors. Whenever you cast a colorless spell, exile up to one target permanent that's one or more colors. +2: You gain 3 life and draw a card. 0: Add {C}{C}{C}. −11: Search your library for any number of colorless nonland cards, exile them, then shuffle. Until end of turn, you may cast those cards without paying their mana costs.

Planeswalker
Ugin, Eye of the Storms (tdm) 1
Ugin, the Ineffable

Colorless spells you cast cost {2} less to cast. +1: Exile the top card of your library face down and look at it. Create a 2/2 colorless Spirit creature token. When that token leaves the battlefield, put the exiled card into your hand. −3: Destroy target permanent that's one or more colors.

Planeswalker
Ugin, the Ineffable (war) 2

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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
Circuit Mender

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

Creature Artifact
Circuit Mender (j22) 760
Lapse of Certainty

Counter target spell. If that spell is countered this way, put it on top of its owner's library instead of into that player's graveyard.

Instant
Lapse of Certainty (plst) CON-9
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
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 (cmm) 964
Prototype Portal

Imprint — When this artifact enters, you may exile an artifact card from your hand. {X}, {T}: Create a token that's a copy of the exiled card. X is the mana value of that card.

Artifact
Prototype Portal (plst) SOM-195
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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42 mana - 37 cards
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