Gandalf party by test_account_09

Format: Commander

Commander: Gandalf, Party Guest

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 46

Deck overview

This Jeskai deck operates as a high-velocity spellslinger engine led by Gandalf, Party Guest. The deck leverages cheap mana rocks and low-cost legendary Wizards like Veyran, Voice of Duality, Kitsa, Otterball Elite, and Alisaie Leveilleur to deploy Gandalf on turn 4. At the beginning of combat, Gandalf casts impactful card-draw or utility spells from hand for free, scaling with your legendary Wizard count. The engine converts rapid spellcasting into game-ending pressure through two primary vectors: direct group burn with Fiery Inscription, Guttersnipe, and Coruscation Mage, and explosive board swarms using Monastery Mentor, Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar, and Third Path Iconoclast. Mana engines such as Storm-Kiln Artist and recursive spells like Lier, Disciple of the Drowned and Will of the Jeskai allow the deck to storm through its library on turn 5 and close the game on turn 6. Efficient countermagic and exile removal protect your development, though the strategy remains vulnerable to well-timed sweepers and heavy spot removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Adarkar Wastes
  • 1 Aetherize
  • 1 Alisaie Leveilleur
  • 1 Alphinaud Leveilleur
  • 1 Arcane Denial
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archmage Emeritus
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Arni, Humble Scribe
  • 1 Battlefield Forge
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Brainstorm
  • 1 Caldera Pyremaw
  • 1 Clifftop Retreat
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Consider
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Deserted Beach
  • 1 Dig Through Time
  • 1 Divining Duelist
  • 1 Elegant Parlor
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Expressive Iteration
  • 1 Fact or Fiction
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fiery Inscription
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Flooded Strand
  • 1 Floodfarm Verge
  • 1 Flow State
  • 1 Frantic Search
  • 1 Gandalf, Party Guest
  • 1 Glacial Fortress
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Hallowed Fountain
  • 1 Island
  • 1 Kitsa, Otterball Elite
  • 1 Lier, Disciple of the Drowned
  • 1 Mana Sculpt
  • 1 Meticulous Archive
  • 1 Mistrise Village
  • 1 Monastery Mentor
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mystic Sanctuary
  • 1 Negate
  • 1 Niv-Mizzet, the Firemind
  • 1 Opt
  • 1 Path to Exile
  • 1 Plains
  • 1 Plunder the Trollshaws
  • 1 Ponder
  • 1 Preordain
  • 1 Raise the Palisade
  • 1 Raugrin Triome
  • 1 Reliquary Tower
  • 1 Riddles in the Dark
  • 1 Rite of Replication
  • 1 Riverpyre Verge
  • 1 Runaway Steam-Kin
  • 1 Sacred Foundry
  • 1 Saheeli, Jewel of Avishkar
  • 1 Saheeli, Sublime Artificer
  • 1 Sanar, Unfinished Genius // Wild Idea
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sea of Clouds
  • 1 Shivan Reef
  • 1 Sleight of Hand
  • 1 Sokka, Tenacious Tactician
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spectator Seating
  • 1 Sphinx of False Conclusions
  • 4 Sphinx's Approach
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Stock Up
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormcarved Coast
  • 1 Sublime Epiphany
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Sunbillow Verge
  • 1 Sundown Pass
  • 1 Swords to Plowshares
  • 1 Talisman of Conviction
  • 1 Talisman of Creativity
  • 1 Talisman of Progress
  • 1 Third Path Iconoclast
  • 1 Thought Vessel
  • 1 Thundering Falls
  • 1 Training Center
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Veyran, Voice of Duality
  • 1 Vraska, Soul of Stone
  • 1 Whirlwind of Thought
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Wizard's Staff
  • 1 Young Pyromancer