Gandfall by Boralin

Format: Commander

Commander: Gandalf, Shadow's Foe

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

This is a mono-blue land-bounce and landfall engine deck helmed by Gandalf, Shadow's Foe. The core loop returns lands to hand via Moonfolk activations, Trade Routes, Oboro, Palace in the Clouds, and similar effects, then replays them to chain landfall triggers. Gandalf converts every land drop into a card and a +1/+1 counter while his ETB flickers lands for extra triggers. Primary wins come from layered infinite loops-token swarms off Meloku the Clouded Mirror, copy engines with Orvar, the All-Form, mana loops through Isochron Scepter + Dramatic Reversal, and board-clearing bounce locks via Words of Wind-backed by a dense Wizard tribal package and stack interaction. The deck plays as a midrange combo-control list that grinds value until it assembles a closed loop or overwhelms with a massive Gandalf and Illusion tokens.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Amulet of Vigor
  • 1 Apprentice Wizard
  • 1 Archmage's Charm
  • 1 Arid Archway
  • 1 Bucklebury Ferry
  • 1 Copy Land
  • 1 Coral Atoll
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deadeye Navigator
  • 1 Displacer Kitten
  • 1 Diviner's Wand
  • 1 Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale
  • 1 Dramatic Reversal
  • 1 Elven Raft-Steerer
  • 1 Energy Tap
  • 1 Ensnare
  • 1 Essence Flux
  • 1 Expedition Map
  • 1 Floodbringer
  • 1 Flooded Shoreline
  • 1 Gandalf, Shadow's Foe
  • 1 Ghost Town
  • 1 Ghostly Flicker
  • 1 Guildless Commons
  • 1 High Tide
  • 1 Infiltrate
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 25 Island
  • 1 Isochron Scepter
  • 1 Lotus Field
  • 1 Lotus Vale
  • 1 Mana Breach
  • 1 Meloku the Clouded Mirror
  • 1 Moonbow Illusionist
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Naban, Dean of Iteration
  • 1 Oboro Breezecaller
  • 1 Oboro Envoy
  • 1 Orvar, the All-Form
  • 1 Overburden
  • 1 Patron of the Moon
  • 1 Planar Overlay
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 PuPu UFO
  • 1 Retraced Image
  • 1 Retreat to Coralhelm
  • 1 Riptide Laboratory
  • 1 Robe of the Archmagi
  • 1 Sapphire Medallion
  • 1 Scorched Ruins
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soramaro, First to Dream
  • 1 Soratami Cloudskater
  • 1 Soratami Mindsweeper
  • 1 Soratami Mirror-Mage
  • 1 Soratami Rainshaper
  • 1 Soratami Savant
  • 1 Stifle
  • 1 Sunder
  • 1 Sword of Hearth and Home
  • 1 Tale's End
  • 1 Terrain Generator
  • 1 Tiller Engine
  • 1 Trade Routes
  • 1 Trench Behemoth
  • 1 Trickbind
  • 1 Undiscovered Paradise
  • 1 Uyo, Silent Prophet
  • 1 Virtue of Knowledge // Vantress Visions
  • 1 Walking Atlas
  • 1 Waterspout Djinn
  • 1 Wizard Class
  • 1 Wizard's Retort
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Wonderscape Sage
  • 1 Words of Wind