Adam Haggerty's Gandalf the Grey
 
Type: Deck Idea
Format (legal 👍) comCommander
Approx. Value:
$1,527.19

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Avg. CMC 3.42
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Main Deck - 101 cards, 83 distinct
Columns
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Creature (2)
1 Gandalf the Grey
$0.34 Legendary Creature - Avatar Wizard
1 Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
$18.29 Legendary Enchantment Creature - God
Instant (37)
1 Aetherize
$0.79 Instant
1 Aetherspouts
$0.34 Instant
1 Archmage's Charm
$4.22 Instant
1 Blue Sun's Zenith
$1.51 Instant
1 Brainstorm
$1.09 Instant
1 Channeled Force
$0.03 Instant
1 Clairvoyance
$0.18 Instant
1 Comet Storm
$0.88 Instant
1 Creative Outburst
$0.05 Instant
1 Cryptic Command
$7.51 Instant
1 Cyclonic Rift
$29.02 Instant
1 Disrupt
$0.54 Instant
1 Domineering Will
$0.60 Instant
1 Dramatic Reversal
$0.60 Instant
1 Essence Flux
$1.65 Instant
1 Expansion // Explosion
$0.31 Instant // Instant //
1 Flame of Anor
$4.44 Instant
1 Ghostly Flicker
$0.53 Instant
1 Jwari Disruption // Jwari Ruins
$0.23 Instant // Land
1 Leap
$0.82 Instant
1 Magma Opus
$3.74 Instant
1 Mirror Match
$0.27 Instant
1 Mystic Confluence
$0.38 Instant
1 Opt
$0.08 Instant
1 Peek
$0.31 Instant
1 Planar Incision
$0.07 Instant
1 Prophetic Bolt
$0.05 Instant
1 Reins of Power
$0.63 Instant
1 Release to the Wind
$0.72 Instant
1 Repeal
$0.07 Instant
1 Sapphire Charm
$0.18 Instant
1 Shadow Rift
$2.14 Instant
1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
$0.26 Instant // Land
1 Siren's Ruse
$0.19 Instant
1 Sublime Epiphany
$2.78 Instant
1 Teferi's Time Twist
$0.13 Instant
1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
$7.01 Instant // Land
Sorcery (14)
1 Bond of Insight
$0.14 Sorcery
1 Disrupt Decorum
$0.57 Sorcery
1 Experimental Overload
$0.10 Sorcery
1 Fiery Confluence
$1.20 Sorcery
1 Inscription of Insight
$0.09 Sorcery
1 Merchant Scroll
$5.16 Sorcery
1 Multiple Choice
$0.13 Sorcery
1 Reckless Endeavor
$16.39 Sorcery
1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
$27.80 Sorcery // Land
1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
$7.51 Sorcery // Land
1 Solve the Equation
$2.62 Sorcery
1 Song-Mad Treachery // Song-Mad Ruins
$0.09 Sorcery // Land
1 Spectacular Showdown
$0.55 Sorcery
1 Volcanic Vision
$0.27 Sorcery
Artifact (14)
1 Basalt Monolith
$2.91 Artifact
1 Conjurer's Closet
$10.05 Artifact
1 Gilded Lotus
$1.29 Artifact
1 Glamdring
$1.12 Legendary Artifact - Equipment
1 Grim Monolith
$271.45 Artifact
1 Isochron Scepter
$14.37 Artifact
1 Mana Crypt
$176.56 Artifact
1 Mana Vault
$47.68 Artifact
1 Sol Ring
$1.26 Artifact
1 Sphinx-Bone Wand
$0.53 Artifact
1 Thought Vessel
$0.86 Artifact
1 Thran Dynamo
$1.65 Artifact
1 Twinning Staff
$3.16 Artifact
1 Worn Powerstone
$0.68 Artifact
Enchantment (7)
1 Arcane Bombardment
$3.64 Enchantment
1 Double Vision
$0.29 Enchantment
1 Fiery Inscription
$0.23 Enchantment
1 Metallurgic Summonings
$1.12 Enchantment
1 Rhystic Study
$39.15 Enchantment
1 Shark Typhoon
$3.94 Enchantment
1 Swarm Intelligence
$0.24 Enchantment
Land (27)
1 Desert of the Fervent
$0.14 Land - Desert
1 Desert of the Mindful
$0.08 Land - Desert
1 Forgotten Cave
$0.10 Land
10 Island
$0.09 Basic Land - Island
1 Lonely Sandbar
$0.19 Land
10 Mountain
$0.11 Basic Land - Mountain
1 Reliquary Tower
$2.46 Land
1 Remote Isle
$0.11 Land
1 Smoldering Crater
$0.08 Land
Sideboard - 270 cards, 270 distinct
Name  Edition $ Type Cost
Rarity Color
Battle (1)
1 Invasion of Arcavios // Invocation of the Founders
$0.21 Battle - Siege // Enchantment
Creature (7)
1 Crackling Drake
$0.08 Creature - Drake
1 Deadeye Navigator
$6.73 Creature - Spirit
1 Horseshoe Crab
$0.06 Creature - Crab
1 Hurkyl, Master Wizard
$0.10 Legendary Creature - Human Wizard Advisor
1 Nephalia Smuggler
$0.09 Creature - Human Rogue
1 Snapcaster Mage
$13.95 Creature - Human Wizard
1 Torrential Gearhulk
$0.54 Artifact Creature - Construct
Instant (146)
1 Abjure
$1.05 Instant
1 An Offer You Can't Refuse
$4.22 Instant
1 Balduvian Rage
$0.31 Instant
1 Bane's Contingency
$0.12 Instant
1 Banishing Knack
$0.29 Instant
1 Blustersquall
$0.37 Instant
1 Brutal Expulsion
$0.13 Instant
1 Capsize
$1.60 Instant
1 Cerulean Wisps
$9.79 Instant
1 Chaos Warp
$0.90 Instant
1 Chilling Trap
$0.02 Instant
1 Commandeer
$17.91 Instant
1 Commit // Memory
$0.37 Instant // Sorcery //
1 Consider
$0.78 Instant
1 Council's Deliberation
$0.04 Instant
1 Counterflux
$0.48 Instant
1 Counterspell
$1.11 Instant
1 Crimson Wisps
$6.72 Instant
1 Crowd's Favor
$0.06 Instant
1 Daze
$2.58 Instant
1 Deflecting Swat
$37.60 Instant
1 Defy Gravity
$0.14 Instant
1 Dig Through Time
$0.61 Instant
1 Diminish
$0.04 Instant
1 Disallow
$3.25 Instant
1 Dispel
$0.24 Instant
1 Displace
$0.42 Instant
1 Display of Power
$0.24 Instant
1 Dive Down
$0.11 Instant
1 Diviner's Portent
$0.50 Instant
1 Dominate
$0.31 Instant
1 Drown in Dreams
$3.60 Instant
1 Dual Strike
$0.15 Instant
1 Elminster's Simulacrum
$0.61 Instant
1 Engulf the Shore
$0.52 Instant
1 Evacuation
$0.92 Instant
1 Even the Score
$0.36 Instant
1 Expedite
$0.26 Instant
1 Fall of the Titans
$0.29 Instant
1 Familiar's Ruse
$0.75 Instant
1 Fatal Frenzy
$0.44 Instant
1 Fault Line
$5.28 Instant
1 Fierce Guardianship
$40.61 Instant
1 Firestorm
$9.47 Instant
1 Fleeting Distraction
$0.06 Instant
1 Flow of Knowledge
$0.11 Instant
1 Foil
$0.35 Instant
1 Force of Negation
$37.88 Instant
1 Force of Will
$69.86 Instant
1 Galvanic Iteration
$1.50 Instant
1 Geistblast
$0.10 Instant
1 Gift of Tusks
$0.06 Instant
1 Gigadrowse
$0.35 Instant
1 Gush
$1.15 Instant
1 Hurkyl's Final Meditation
$0.07 Instant
1 Icy Blast
$0.61 Instant
1 Illusion of Choice
$1.37 Instant
1 Incite
$0.02 Instant
1 Increasing Vengeance
$0.28 Instant
1 Infiltrate
$0.18 Instant
1 Insidious Will
$0.57 Instant
1 Invoke Calamity
$0.23 Instant
1 Long-Term Plans
$2.74 Instant
1 Magmaquake
$0.17 Instant
1 March of Swirling Mist
$2.52 Instant
1 Mental Note
$4.56 Instant
1 Mind Games
$0.38 Instant
1 Mindbreak Trap
$59.28 Instant - Trap
1 Mindswipe
$0.20 Instant
1 Misdirection
$2.55 Instant
1 Mission Briefing
$0.26 Instant
1 Mizzium Skin
$0.11 Instant
1 Muddle the Mixture
$0.98 Instant
1 Mystical Tutor
$8.87 Instant
1 Narset's Reversal
$9.80 Instant
1 Needle Drop
$0.91 Instant
1 Negate
$0.13 Instant
1 Nexus of Fate
$12.97 Instant
1 Obsessive Search
$0.18 Instant
1 Overwhelming Denial
$0.15 Instant
1 Pact of Negation
$10.65 Instant
1 Panic
$0.42 Instant
1 Perplexing Test
$0.23 Instant
1 Polymorphist's Jest
$3.12 Instant
1 Pongify
$6.11 Instant
1 Price of Progress
$5.31 Instant
1 Prismari Command
$2.88 Instant
1 Psychotic Fury
$0.52 Instant
1 Pull from Tomorrow
$1.28 Instant
1 Punishing Fire
$0.31 Instant
1 Pyroblast
$5.54 Instant
1 Quicken
$0.36 Instant
1 Rapid Hybridization
$2.45 Instant
1 Ravaging Blaze
$0.11 Instant
1 Ray of Erasure
$0.14 Instant
1 Reach Through Mists
$0.19 Instant - Arcane
1 Reality Shift
$0.31 Instant
1 Rebuild
$0.11 Instant
1 Red Elemental Blast
$9.15 Instant
1 Reiterate
$2.93 Instant
1 Remand
$1.11 Instant
1 Retraction Helix
$0.12 Instant
1 Reverberate
$1.15 Instant
1 Rewind
$0.29 Instant
1 Searing Wind
$0.54 Instant
1 Secrets of the Key
$0.05 Instant
1 See Double
$0.91 Instant
1 Shattering Pulse
$0.26 Instant
1 Shore Up
$0.16 Instant
1 Siren's Call
$0.22 Instant
1 Slip Out the Back
$0.99 Instant
1 Snap
$0.93 Instant
1 Snapback
$0.25 Instant
1 Starstorm
$0.20 Instant
1 Stream of Unconsciousness
$0.20 Tribal Instant - Wizard
1 Stroke of Genius
$0.47 Instant
1 Sudden Substitution
$2.40 Instant
1 Summary Dismissal
$0.30 Instant
1 Supplant Form
$0.47 Instant
1 Suspend
$0.25 Instant
1 Swan Song
$11.33 Instant
1 Teach by Example
$0.05 Instant
1 Thassa's Intervention
$0.22 Instant
1 Thought Scour
$0.26 Instant
1 Thwart
$2.05 Instant
1 Timely Interference
$0.08 Instant
1 Turn Against
$0.07 Instant
1 Turn Aside
$0.12 Instant
1 Twincast
$3.76 Instant
1 Twinferno
$0.15 Instant
1 Twisted Image
$0.26 Instant
1 Unsubstantiate
$0.17 Instant
1 Unsummon
$0.07 Instant
1 Unwind
$0.50 Instant
1 Urza's Command
$0.14 Instant
1 Vapor Snag
$0.21 Instant
1 Visions of Beyond
$6.25 Instant
1 Volcanic Geyser
$0.03 Instant
1 Wash Away
$0.37 Instant
1 Wild Magic Surge
$0.44 Instant
1 Wipe Away
$0.25 Instant
1 Word of Seizing
$0.15 Instant
1 Wrong Turn
$0.19 Instant
1 You Come to a River
$0.09 Instant
1 You Find Some Prisoners
$0.16 Instant
1 You See a Guard Approach
$0.10 Instant
Sorcery (85)
1 Acquire
$3.09 Sorcery
1 Anarchy
$0.61 Sorcery
1 Anger of the Gods
$0.31 Sorcery
1 Artful Dodge
$0.26 Sorcery
1 Banefire
$0.59 Sorcery
1 Beacon Bolt
$0.14 Sorcery
1 Beacon of Tomorrows
$3.65 Sorcery
1 Birthday Escape
$0.09 Sorcery
1 Blasphemous Act
$2.04 Sorcery
1 Blue Sun's Twilight
$0.43 Sorcery
1 Bonfire of the Damned
$2.00 Sorcery
1 Bonus Round
$4.51 Sorcery
1 Bribery
$7.43 Sorcery
1 Brotherhood's End
$4.25 Sorcery
1 Chain Reaction
$0.27 Sorcery
1 Coastal Breach
$2.81 Sorcery
1 Cosmic Epiphany
$0.10 Sorcery
1 Crackle with Power
$7.86 Sorcery
1 Crush of Tentacles
$1.13 Sorcery
1 Culmination of Studies
$0.11 Sorcery
1 Curse of the Swine
$0.41 Sorcery
1 Devastation Tide
$0.45 Sorcery
1 Devil's Play
$0.16 Sorcery
1 Doublecast
$0.15 Sorcery
1 Drawn from Dreams
$0.11 Sorcery
1 Earthquake
$0.74 Sorcery
1 Entrancing Melody
$0.24 Sorcery
1 Epic Experiment
$0.29 Sorcery
1 Expressive Iteration
$1.10 Sorcery
1 Fade Away
$0.29 Sorcery
1 Faithless Looting
$0.28 Sorcery
1 Fanning the Flames
$0.41 Sorcery
1 Finale of Revelation
$3.29 Sorcery
1 Fireball
$0.19 Sorcery
1 Flood of Tears
$0.87 Sorcery
1 Gandalf's Sanction
$0.05 Sorcery
1 Gitaxian Probe
$2.69 Sorcery
1 Howl of the Horde
$0.21 Sorcery
1 Incendiary Command
$1.81 Sorcery
1 Incite Rebellion
$0.31 Sorcery
1 Inspiring Refrain
$0.31 Sorcery
1 Insult // Injury
$0.66 Sorcery // Sorcery //
1 Into the Fire
$0.19 Sorcery
1 Inundate
$5.04 Sorcery
1 Invoke the Firemind
$0.33 Sorcery
1 Irenicus's Vile Duplication
$2.00 Sorcery
1 Jaya's Immolating Inferno
$0.51 Legendary Sorcery
1 Jeska's Will
$16.23 Sorcery
1 Magmatic Insight
$0.33 Sorcery
1 Mana Geyser
$1.93 Sorcery
1 Mana Severance
$3.64 Sorcery
1 Mana Vapors
$0.30 Sorcery
1 Mass Manipulation
$0.59 Sorcery
1 Mishra's Command
$0.15 Sorcery
1 Mizzix's Mastery
$3.36 Sorcery
1 Mnemonic Deluge
$3.20 Sorcery
1 Molten Disaster
$0.51 Sorcery
1 Molten Psyche
$4.58 Sorcery
1 Mystic Retrieval
$0.24 Sorcery
1 Mystic Speculation
$4.78 Sorcery
1 Overmaster
$2.54 Sorcery
1 Personal Tutor
$16.65 Sorcery
1 Pieces of the Puzzle
$0.11 Sorcery
1 Ponder
$2.73 Sorcery
1 Portent
$0.40 Sorcery
1 Preordain
$0.85 Sorcery
1 Red Sun's Zenith
$0.47 Sorcery
1 Rise from the Tides
$0.11 Sorcery
1 Rousing Refrain
$6.16 Sorcery
1 Serum Visions
$0.66 Sorcery
1 Shenanigans
$0.08 Sorcery
1 Sleight of Hand
$0.51 Sorcery
1 Slip Through Space
$0.19 Sorcery
1 Sorcerous Sight
$0.84 Sorcery
1 Spelltwine
$0.28 Sorcery
1 Strike It Rich
$0.41 Sorcery
1 Subterranean Tremors
$6.13 Sorcery
1 Sudden Demise
$0.30 Sorcery
1 Surge to Victory
$0.54 Sorcery
1 Surreal Memoir
$0.08 Sorcery
1 Sweltering Suns
$0.15 Sorcery
1 Tunnel Vision
$2.28 Sorcery
1 Vandalblast
$2.86 Sorcery
1 Wash Out
$0.64 Sorcery
1 Whelming Wave
$1.73 Sorcery
Artifact (16)
1 Chromatic Orrery
$27.35 Legendary Artifact
1 Cloud Key
$2.47 Artifact
1 Lightning Greaves
$5.28 Artifact - Equipment
1 Lithoform Engine
$6.83 Legendary Artifact
1 Mindsplice Apparatus
$1.20 Artifact
1 Mirari
$0.78 Legendary Artifact
1 Primal Amulet // Primal Wellspring
$9.91 Artifact // Land
1 Pyromancer's Goggles
$1.80 Legendary Artifact
1 Rings of Brighthearth
$3.98 Artifact
1 Ruby Medallion
$16.62 Artifact
1 Runechanter's Pike
$0.28 Artifact - Equipment
1 Sapphire Medallion
$21.36 Artifact
1 Shadowspear
$22.55 Legendary Artifact - Equipment
1 Swiftfoot Boots
$2.22 Artifact - Equipment
1 Sword of Once and Future
$4.43 Artifact - Equipment
1 The Magic Mirror
$3.15 Legendary Artifact
Enchantment (14)
1 Arcane Melee
$0.33 Enchantment
1 Aria of Flame
$0.89 Enchantment
1 Cryptic Pursuit
$0.22 Enchantment
1 Dual Casting
$0.49 Enchantment - Aura
1 Empyrial Armor
$0.24 Enchantment - Aura
1 Eyes of the Watcher
$0.26 Enchantment
1 Firemind's Research
$0.19 Enchantment
1 Jace's Sanctum
$2.24 Enchantment
1 Pemmin's Aura
$4.33 Enchantment - Aura
1 Precognition Field
$0.22 Enchantment
1 Spellweaver Volute
$0.97 Enchantment - Aura
1 Telepathy
$0.35 Enchantment
1 The Mirari Conjecture
$0.21 Enchantment - Saga
1 Trail of Evidence
$0.23 Enchantment
Land (1)
1 Mystic Sanctuary
$0.86 Land - Island

Notes
 
The first step is breaking gandalf's restriction and powering up his worse ability to raise the floor. The first is accomplished but adding a significant amount of flicker effects which "reset" him prior to his final clause. Passive options are best. The latter is achieved by the acceleration, which is both picked with this in mind and the best options to get a 5 drop out ahead of time. The do not untap artifacts are particularly good at this role, and also ensure that the recast from top of library is less of a deficit. A number of the flicker effects can also "reset" these as sudo rituals. With so many rocks that make 2-3 mana and an emphasis on cheap instant and sorceries, the isochron scepter/dramatic reversal combo is an easy core add. This takes up 18 spots plus Gandalf. I'll split the deck into 33 lands or less if possible that can't be cycled or used as a spell, 33 cards that draw cards, and 33 non cantriping action items, which this 18 takes a goodly amount of. Im going to build out some packages from her and see where I want to go with the legendary wizard. If I achieve my goal, should be fun spell caster deck at a similar power level to grismold, casual but not lame duck.

3-5 lands off for a 50/50 permanent spell mix. May need to swap metallurgic summonings, shark typhoon, and trail of evidence for land. In any case, I get 37 other instant and sorceries to play with. I have 5-6 of the card draw spells accounted for, meaning I need 27-28 cantrips or better. That leaves about 10 for interaction and other effects.
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