Gandalf the White

Combos with Gandalf the White

The lines this card is part of, what it needs alongside it, and what the cards do together. An infinite result is the one that moves a deck's bracket.

• Urza, Lord High Artificer Deadeye Navigator Infinite
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite tapped creature tokens
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• Junk Diver Myr Retriever Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
  • Infinite colorless mana
  • Infinite death triggers
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite storm count
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• Scrap Trawler Myr Retriever Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
  • Infinite colorless mana
  • Infinite death triggers
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite storm count
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• Workshop Assistant Myr Retriever Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
  • Infinite colorless mana
  • Infinite death triggers
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite storm count
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• Junk Diver Workshop Assistant Krark-Clan Ironworks Infinite
  • Infinite death triggers
  • Infinite creature ETB
  • Infinite creature LTB
  • Infinite creature sacrifice triggers
  • Infinite storm count
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• Time Sieve Myr Battlesphere Soulherder Infinite
  • Infinite turns
  • Lock
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• Time Sieve Myr Battlesphere Teleportation Circle Infinite
  • Infinite turns
  • Lock
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• Time Sieve Myr Battlesphere Thassa, Deep-Dwelling Infinite
  • Infinite turns
  • Lock
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Combo data from Commander Spellbook, the community-maintained database of Magic combos. Mirrored nightly.

Rulings

10 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

• 2023-06-16

  Replacement effects are unaffected by Gandalf the White's ability. For example, a legendary creature that enters the battlefield with one +1/+1 counter on it won't receive an additional +1/+1 counter.

• 2023-06-16

  Abilities that apply "as [this permanent] enters the battlefield," such as choosing a color with Gauntlet of Power, are also unaffected.

• 2023-06-16

  The second ability applies only to casting spells. It does not, for example, change when you may activate abilities that can be activated "only as a sorcery."

• 2023-06-16

  You don't need to control the permanent entering or leaving the battlefield, only the permanent that has the triggered ability.

• 2023-06-16

  Gandalf the White's effect doesn't copy the triggered ability; it just causes the ability to trigger twice. Any choices made as you put the ability onto the stack, such as modes and targets, are made separately for each instance of the ability. Any choices made on resolution, such as whether to put counters on a permanent, are also made individually.

• 2023-06-16

  If a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield at the same time as Gandalf the White (including Gandalf the White itself) causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

• 2023-06-16

  Look at each legendary permanent and each artifact as it exists on the battlefield, taking into account continuous effects, to determine whether any triggered abilities will trigger multiple times. For example, if a nonlegendary creature that has become legendary (probably because it's a player's Ring-bearer) dies, an ability that triggers when it leaves the battlefield triggers twice.

• 2023-06-16

  If you somehow control two copies of Gandalf the White, a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes abilities to trigger three times, not four. A third Gandalf the White causes abilities to trigger four times, a fourth causes abilities to trigger five times, and so on.

• 2023-06-16

  Gandalf the White affects a permanent's own enters-the-battlefield and leaves-the-battlefield triggered abilities as well as other triggered abilities that trigger when that permanent enters or leaves the battlefield. Such triggered abilities start with "when" or "whenever."

• 2023-06-16

  The trigger event doesn't have to specifically refer to legendary permanents or to artifacts, nor does it have to specifically refer to when something "leaves the battlefield." For example, an ability that triggers "whenever a creature dies" would trigger twice if a legendary creature or an artifact creature dies while Gandalf the White is on the battlefield, as would an ability that triggers "whenever a permanent is put into a graveyard from the battlefield."

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.