Gandalf, Shadow's Foe

Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard

Chosen commander for the requested strategy.

Artifact

essential fast mana acceleration

Artifact

efficient untapped mana rock

Artifact

fetches a basic land onto the battlefield to trigger landfall

Artifact

early ramp that can be cashed in for a card later

Artifact

mana acceleration that provides an unlimited hand size for huge card draw

Artifact

mana rock granting no maximum hand size

Artifact

mana ramp that eventually refills the hand and graveyard

Artifact

taps for two colorless mana to help cast a seven-mana commander

Artifact Creature — Golem

fetches a basic land on entry to trigger landfall

Artifact Creature — Elk

fetches two lands directly to the battlefield for double landfall triggers

Creature — Human Spellshaper

turns excess cards and lands into double land ramp in blue

Artifact

tutors lands onto the battlefield or into hand

Enchantment

premier card draw engine taxing opponent spells

Enchantment

efficient early card advantage punishing noncreature spells

Instant

filters cards and pairs well with land shuffle effects

Sorcery

smooths early draws to ensure land drops

Sorcery

cheap card selection to set up future turns

Sorcery

refills the hand while punishing opponents who empty theirs

Instant

filters hand and untaps lands for further plays

Instant

instant-speed burst card draw sink for excess mana

Sorcery

draws cards equal to the number of Islands controlled

Creature — Human Wizard

rewards casting interaction and protection spells with draws

Instant

one-sided board wipe staple in mono-blue

Instant

efficient single-mana instant creature destruction

Instant

cheap instant removal that replaces threats with tokens

Instant

exiles troublesome creatures or artifacts

Instant

exiles target creature cleanly at instant speed

Instant

clean answer to any spell for two blue mana

Instant

free protection counterspell when the commander is in play

Instant

counters a spell and provides a burst of mana next turn

Instant

low-cost counterspell protecting key permanents

Instant

cheap universal noncreature counterspell

Creature — Elemental

steals opposing creatures repeatedly whenever lands enter

Legendary Creature — Moonfolk Wizard

bounces lands to hand to produce tokens and replay for landfall

Legendary Creature — Spirit

puts multiple bounced lands back onto the battlefield at instant speed

Creature — Kraken

bounces opponents' boards based on the number of Islands

Artifact Creature — Phyrexian Horror

burns all opponents as Gandalf draws massive quantities of cards

Creature — Squid Horror

grows massive from all the landfall card draws and leaves behind squid tokens

Enchantment

rapidly turns massive card draws into an army of 8/8 Krakens

Creature — Human Wizard

alternate win condition enabled by enormous card-draw turns

Creature — Crab

mills opponents whenever lands enter the battlefield

Creature — Crab

punishes every opponent with land-based mill

Legendary Enchantment Creature — God

blinks Gandalf at end of turn to re-trigger his land exile ability

Creature — Spirit

soulbonds to blink Gandalf repeatedly for repeated land-flicker triggers

Creature — Cat Beast

blinks Gandalf on noncreature casts to trigger massive landfall surges

Legendary Creature — God // Legendary Artifact — Vehicle

exiles to accumulate counters on landfall and returns huge with cards

Creature — Human Wizard

converts drawing through the entire library into a direct victory

Creature — Kraken Horror

controls the board and can bounce lands or spells back to hand

Legendary Creature — Elder Dinosaur

resilient threat that draws cards and provides unlimited hand size

Creature — Kraken

bounces lands to gain untap and hexproof while fueling replayable landfall

Creature — Moonfolk Wizard

bounces lands to soft-counter opponents' spells

Legendary Creature — Moonfolk Wizard

bounces lands to copy powerful instant and sorcery spells

Creature — Avatar

grows equal to cards in hand and draws more when damaged

Legendary Artifact — Equipment

turns Gandalf into a lethal voltron commander based on land count

Enchantment

bounces lands to hand on demand to guarantee landfall triggers

Artifact Creature — Construct

taps to drop additional lands from hand each turn

Instant

blinks Gandalf and/or lands to trigger explosive landfall sequences

Artifact

repeatedly flickers Gandalf on end step to trigger his ETB land blink

Artifact — Equipment

blinks Gandalf on combat damage and tutors another basic land

Artifact — Equipment

grants haste and shroud to protect the commander

Artifact — Equipment

grants hexproof and haste to ensure Gandalf survives

Enchantment

untaps land droppers like Walking Atlas on landfall for infinite loops

Land

No maximum hand size.

Land

Card draw from the mana base.

Land

Makes a creature unblockable.

Land

Extra mana in the late game.

Land — Island

Recurs an instant or sorcery.

Land

Mono-color utility land.

Basic Land — Island

Basic land allocated from mana pip counts.