Gandalf’s Extremely Inconvenient Evening by Voguishbag

Format: Commander

Commander: Gandalf the Grey

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Helmed by Gandalf the Grey, this is a spellslinger deck that turns every instant and sorcery into a modal payoff. Gandalf's triggers copy spells, burn the table, untap mana sources, or reset himself, and the deck stacks those triggers with Harmonic Prodigy, Wizard's Staff, and Pyromancer's Goggles. The plan is to play a patient, interactive game early, then explode on a high-spell-count turn fueled by Mana Geyser, treasure made by Big Score, Unexpected Windfall, Smaug the Magnificent, and The Misty Mountains Cold. Wins come from table-wide burn via Gandalf's damage mode, Fiery Inscription, Firebrand Archer, and Thermo-Alchemist, or from big copied finishers like Electrodominance, Meteor Shower, and a stormed Brain Freeze. A small stax package with Winter Orb, Winter Moon, Price of Glory, and Cursed Totem helps slow the table while the spell count builds.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Bilbo, Luckwearer // Burglar's Plot
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Brain Freeze
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Curiosity
  • 1 Cursed Totem
  • 1 Electrodominance
  • 1 Enchanted River's Grasp
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fated Firepower
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Galvanic Iteration
  • 1 Gandalf the Grey
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death
  • 1 Harmonic Prodigy
  • 1 Hidden Strings
  • 13 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Izzet Signet
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Mana Short
  • 1 Meteor Shower
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 1 Mines of Moria
  • 1 Monument to Endurance
  • 13 Mountain
  • 1 Murmuring Mystic
  • 1 Narset's Reversal
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Patriar's Seal
  • 1 Pinecone Strike
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Price of Glory
  • 1 Propaganda
  • 1 Pyromancer's Goggles
  • 1 Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Reins of Power
  • 1 Relic Barrier
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Rivendell
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Smaug the Magnificent
  • 1 Smoke Bomb
  • 1 Snap
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spreading Insurrection
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 The Misty Mountains Cold
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thunderclap Drake
  • 1 Uncover the Moon-Letters
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Unstoppable Plan
  • 1 Winter Moon
  • 1 Winter Orb
  • 1 Wizard's Staff