First printed in The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (2023)
All 9 prints
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #470, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #732, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #732z, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #797, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #19, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #299, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #305, 2023
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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) #442, 2023
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Tales of Middle-earth Promos (PLTR) #19s, 2023
Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard
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.
4/5
- Illustrated by
- Magali Villeneuve
Legality
- Legal in
- Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Pauper, Future Standard, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders, Standard Brawl
Rulings (10)
- Replacement effects are unaffected by Gandalf the White's ability. For example, a legendary creature that enters the battlefield with one +1/+1 counter on it won't receive an additional +1/+1 counter.
- Abilities that apply "as [this permanent] enters the battlefield," such as choosing a color with Gauntlet of Power, are also unaffected.
- 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."
- You don't need to control the permanent entering or leaving the battlefield, only the permanent that has the triggered ability.
- Gandalf the White's effect doesn't copy the triggered ability; it just causes the ability to trigger twice. Any choices made as you put the ability onto the stack, such as modes and targets, are made separately for each instance of the ability. Any choices made on resolution, such as whether to put counters on a permanent, are also made individually.
- If a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield at the same time as Gandalf the White (including Gandalf the White itself) causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.
- Look at each legendary permanent and each artifact as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger multiple times. For example, if a nonlegendary creature that has become legendary (probably because it's a player's Ring-bearer) dies, an ability that triggers when it leaves the battlefield triggers twice.
- If you somehow control two copies of Gandalf the White, a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes abilities to trigger three times, not four. A third Gandalf the White causes abilities to trigger four times, a fourth causes abilities to trigger five times, and so on.
- Gandalf the White affects a permanent's own enters-the-battlefield and leaves-the-battlefield triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities that trigger when that permanent enters or leaves the battlefield. Such triggered abilities start with "when" or "whenever."
- The trigger event doesn't have to specifically refer to legendary permanents or to artifacts, nor does it have to specifically refer to when something "leaves the battlefield." For example, an ability that triggers "whenever a creature dies" would trigger twice if a legendary creature or an artifact creature dies while Gandalf the White is on the battlefield, as would an ability that triggers "whenever a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield."
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
In Limited on MTG Arena
Win rates in Arena drafts and sealed, retrieved from 17Lands (CC BY 4.0).
| Set | GIH WR | vs set | IWD | Games |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR), Premier Draft | 53.6% | -2.0 | +1.1 | 5029 |
- GIH WR
- win rate of the games in which the card was in the opening hand or drawn
- vs set
- points above or below the average win rate of all decks in the set
- IWD
- improvement when drawn: GIH WR minus the win rate when the card stayed in the library
- Games
- games in which the card was seen
Combos
18 combos, the most popular first:
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers…: Gandalf the White + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Myr Retriever + Scrap Trawler
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers…: Gandalf the White + Junk Diver + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Myr Retriever
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers…: Gandalf the White + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Myr Retriever + Workshop Assistant
- Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB…: Gandalf the White + Junk Diver + Krark-Clan Ironworks + Workshop Assistant
- Infinite creature LTB, Infinite creature ETB…: Deadeye Navigator + Gandalf the White + Urza, Lord High Artificer
- Infinite turns, Lock: Conjurer's Closet + Gandalf the White + Myr Battlesphere + Time Sieve
- Infinite turns, Lock: Gandalf the White + Myr Battlesphere + Teleportation Circle + Time Sieve
- Infinite turns, Lock: Gandalf the White + Myr Battlesphere + Soulherder + Time Sieve
- Infinite turns, Lock: Gandalf the White + Gonti's Aether Heart + Lithoform Engine + Prototype Portal
- Infinite colorless mana, Infinite creature ETB…: Ancestral Statue + Clock of Omens + Everflowing Chalice + Gandalf the White
