Adam Haggerty's Gandalf's cantriping cheap tricks ...
 
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Edge of Eternities
releases on August 1, 2025!

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Edge of Eternities
releases on August 1, 2025!

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Main Deck - 35 cards, 35 distinct
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Name  Ed. Price Type Cost P Modified
Rarity Color
Creature (1)
1 Gandalf the Grey
$0.32 Legendary Creature - Avatar Wizard 3 28-Jun-2023 14:23
Instant (25)
1 Archmage's Charm
$0.56 Instant 28-Jun-2023 16:49
1 Blue Sun's Zenith
$1.20 Instant 02-Jul-2023 16:44
1 Brainstorm
$1.17 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:04
1 Channeled Force
$0.07 Instant 02-Jul-2023 02:35
1 Chilling Trap
$0.06 Instant 02-Jul-2023 16:44
1 Clairvoyance
$0.16 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:04
1 Creative Outburst
$0.11 Instant 02-Jul-2023 02:35
1 Cryptic Command
$2.52 Instant 28-Jun-2023 16:49
1 Disrupt
$0.24 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:13
1 Expansion // Explosion
$0.34 Instant // Instant // 02-Jul-2023 16:44
1 Flame of Anor
$3.49 Instant 28-Jun-2023 16:49
1 Leap
$0.55 Instant 02-Jul-2023 16:44
1 Magma Opus
$0.59 Instant 02-Jul-2023 02:35
1 Mystic Confluence
$0.59 Instant 28-Jun-2023 16:49
1 Opt
$0.15 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:04
1 Peek
$0.46 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:04
1 Prophetic Bolt
$0.33 Instant 02-Jul-2023 02:35
1 Quicken
$0.23 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:04
1 Repeal
$0.14 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:04
1 Sapphire Charm
$0.20 Instant 28-Jun-2023 16:49
1 Shadow Rift
$1.43 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:04
1 Silundi Vision // Silundi Isle
$0.38 Instant // Land 28-Jun-2023 16:49
1 Stream of Unconsciousness
$0.22 Tribal Instant - Wizard 02-Jul-2023 16:44
1 Sublime Epiphany
$0.27 Instant 28-Jun-2023 16:49
1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
$12.02 Instant // Land 28-Jun-2023 16:56
Sorcery (8)
1 Bond of Insight
$0.17 Sorcery 02-Jul-2023 02:35
1 Experimental Overload
$0.16 Sorcery 02-Jul-2023 02:35
1 Inscription of Insight
$0.10 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 16:57
1 Merchant Scroll
$6.84 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 16:57
1 Multiple Choice
$0.21 Sorcery 02-Jul-2023 02:35
1 Sea Gate Restoration // Sea Gate, Reborn
$34.16 Sorcery // Land 28-Jun-2023 16:57
1 Solve the Equation
$1.55 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 17:24
1 Volcanic Vision
$0.33 Sorcery 02-Jul-2023 02:35
Enchantment (1)
1 Rhystic Study
$44.58 Enchantment 28-Jun-2023 16:58
Sideboard - 71 cards, 71 distinct
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Creature (1)
1 Crackling Drake
$0.09 Creature - Drake * 28-Jun-2023 14:23
Instant (35)
1 Balduvian Rage
$0.19 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Bane's Contingency
$0.11 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Cerulean Wisps
$2.41 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Commit // Memory
$0.23 Instant // Sorcery // 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Consider
$0.38 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Council's Deliberation
$0.06 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Crimson Wisps
$1.59 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Dig Through Time
$0.32 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Diviner's Portent
$0.71 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Drown in Dreams
$0.27 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Electric Revelation
$0.04 Instant 28-Jun-2023 18:03
1 Even the Score
$0.38 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Expedite
$0.30 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Fleeting Distraction
$0.04 Instant 03-Jul-2023 01:38
1 Flow of Knowledge
$0.18 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Gush
$0.85 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Illusion of Choice
$1.84 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Mental Note
$4.63 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Needle Drop
$1.91 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Obsessive Search
$0.25 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Panic
$0.28 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:28
1 Prismari Command
$0.44 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Psychotic Fury
$1.83 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Pull from Tomorrow
$0.43 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Ray of Erasure
$0.18 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Reach Through Mists
$0.29 Instant - Arcane 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Remand
$0.23 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Secrets of the Key
$0.04 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Stroke of Genius
$0.31 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Thassa's Intervention
$0.28 Instant 28-Jun-2023 16:49
1 Thought Scour
$0.40 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Timely Interference
$0.06 Instant 03-Jul-2023 01:41
1 Twisted Image
$0.27 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Urza's Command
$0.19 Instant 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Visions of Beyond
$5.89 Instant 28-Jun-2023 17:15
Sorcery (21)
1 Birthday Escape
$0.14 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Cosmic Epiphany
$0.18 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Culmination of Studies
$0.10 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Drawn from Dreams
$0.13 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Expressive Iteration
$0.61 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Faithless Looting
$0.28 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Finale of Revelation
$0.24 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Gitaxian Probe
$4.75 Sorcery 03-Jul-2023 01:28
1 Inspiring Refrain
$0.21 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Invoke the Firemind
$0.34 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Magmatic Insight
$0.23 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Mystic Retrieval
$0.24 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Overmaster
$1.31 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Pieces of the Puzzle
$0.07 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Ponder
$1.90 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Portent
$0.42 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Preordain
$0.90 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Serum Visions
$0.64 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Sleight of Hand
$0.21 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Slip Through Space
$0.47 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
1 Sorcerous Sight
$0.30 Sorcery 28-Jun-2023 14:23
Artifact (1)
1 The Magic Mirror
$2.50 Legendary Artifact 28-Jun-2023 14:23
Enchantment (1)
1 Trail of Evidence
$0.22 Enchantment 02-Jul-2023 16:29
Land (12)
1 Arch of Orazca
$0.26 Land 28-Jun-2023 16:35
1 Blasted Landscape
$1.60 Land 28-Jun-2023 16:35
1 Bonders' Enclave
$0.61 Land 28-Jun-2023 16:35
1 Desert of the Fervent
$0.08 Land - Desert 28-Jun-2023 16:34
1 Desert of the Mindful
$0.05 Land - Desert 28-Jun-2023 16:35
1 Desolate Lighthouse
$0.27 Land 28-Jun-2023 16:36
1 Forgotten Cave
$0.13 Land 28-Jun-2023 16:34
1 Geier Reach Sanitarium
$1.09 Legendary Land 28-Jun-2023 16:37
1 Lonely Sandbar
$0.29 Land 28-Jun-2023 16:34
1 Remote Isle
$0.31 Land 28-Jun-2023 16:34
1 Smoldering Crater
$0.17 Land 28-Jun-2023 16:34
1 The Biblioplex
$0.18 Land 29-Jun-2023 02:25

Notes
 
The above shows the initial cantrips and counterspells that best fit the deck. All of the modal cantripping options are included first to cement our wizards tools, and to exploit gandalf's copy ability. Same for the dfc card draw lands, which won't be factored in the 33 total. Next is the must include rhystic study. Two true tutors make the cut as they reinforce the dramatic reversal plan, act as cantrips, and the deck will essentially be a spell toolbox so super modal. They also are excellent copied. Following this is the most independently bang for our buck 1 mana cantriping instants. To make Gandalf good we must be able to activate as much as we want and when we want, and this requires a critical mass of cheap or free tricks as well as card advantage. our card advantage has to overflow as some amount of the time gandalf is going to take our draw from us, and we have to stay ahead of this. 1 mana cantrips straddle this line well, and as a base can offer 1 mana divinations when copied. Flavor wise it also shows the unpredictable nature and abilities of Gandalf. Incidentally we get 5 quality counterspells this way. The remaining cantrips depend if we want to maximize the most high value independent cards, or build into a graveyard theme.
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