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Gandalf, Shadow's Foe

Gandalf, Shadow's Foe

Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard

mythic

Vigilance When Gandalf enters, exile up to three target lands you control, then return them to the battlefield tapped under their owner's control. Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Gandalf.

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Semantic Tags

Blink / Flickermechanical

Exiles a permanent and returns it to the battlefield — re-triggers ETB effects.

Cantripmechanical

A spell that replaces itself by drawing a card as part of its resolution.

Card Drawmechanical

Puts additional cards into your hand. Includes direct draw, 'look/reveal and put into hand' effects, and conditional draw triggers.

Cares about +1/+1 counters — places, moves, doubles, or benefits from counters on creatures.

Defensivemechanical

Suited for blocking and defense. Includes defender, reach, vigilance, and cards that incentivize blocking.

Flickermechanical

Exiles and returns permanents for ETB reuse — distinct from blink by sometimes including end step return.

Landfallmechanical

Triggers when a land enters the battlefield under your control.

Lands Mattermechanical

Land-focused strategies beyond ramp — land recursion, land sacrifice, Crucible of Worlds.

Permanentmechanical

A card or token on the battlefield. See rule 110, “Permanents.”

Vigilancemechanical

A keyword ability that lets a creature attack without tapping. See rule 702.20, “Vigilance.”

Vigilancevector

A keyword ability that lets a creature attack without tapping. See rule 702.20, “Vigilance.”

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernnot legal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historicnot legal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
The Hobbit Eternal#99mythic···

Related Concepts

Vigilance

A keyword ability that lets a creature attack without tapping. See rule 702.20, “Vigilance.”

Related Rules

106.5

If an ability would produce one or more mana of an undefined type, it produces no mana instead.

106.7

Some abilities produce mana based on the type of mana another permanent or permanents “could produce.” The type of mana a permanent could produce at any time includes any type of mana that an ability of that permanent would produce if the ability were to resolve at that time, taking into account any applicable replacement effects in any possible order. Ignore whether any costs of the ability could or could not be paid. If that permanent wouldn’t produce any mana under these conditions, or no type of mana can be defined this way, there’s no type of mana it could produce.

106.12

To “tap [a permanent] for mana” is to activate a mana ability of that permanent that includes the {T} symbol in its activation cost. See rule 605, “Mana Abilities.”

106.12a

An ability that triggers whenever a permanent “is tapped for mana” or is tapped for mana of a specified type triggers whenever such a mana ability resolves and produces mana or the specified type of mana.

106.12b

A replacement effect that applies if a permanent “is tapped for mana” or tapped for mana of a specific type and/or amount modifies the mana production event while such an ability is resolving and producing mana or the specified type and/or amount of mana.

107.3m

If an object’s enters-the-battlefield triggered ability or replacement effect refers to X, and the spell that became that object as it resolved had a value of X chosen for any of its costs, the value of X for that ability is the same as the value of X for that spell, although the value of X for that permanent is 0. This is an exception to rule 107.3i.

107.5

The tap symbol is {T}. The tap symbol in an activation cost means “Tap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already tapped can’t be tapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the tap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.

107.6

The untap symbol is {Q}. The untap symbol in an activation cost means “Untap this permanent.” A permanent that’s already untapped can’t be untapped again to pay the cost. A creature’s activated ability with the untap symbol in its activation cost can’t be activated unless the creature has been under its controller’s control continuously since their most recent turn began. See rule 302.6.

Rulings

2026-06-29

A landfall ability doesn't trigger if a permanent already on the battlefield becomes a land.

2026-06-29

Whenever a land you control enters, each landfall ability of permanents you control will trigger. You can put them on the stack in any order. The last ability you put on the stack will be the first one to resolve (as a result, you can have those abilities resolve in the order of your choosing).

2026-06-29

A landfall ability triggers whenever a land you control enters for any reason. It triggers whenever you play a land, as well as whenever a spell or ability puts a land onto the battlefield under your control.