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Gandalf the White

· Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Decklist Inclusion

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Times Brought

136

Decks Running

In Decks

648

Decklist Inclusion

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

Card text

Gandalf the White

Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard

Flash You may cast legendary spells and artifact spells as though they had flash. If a legendary permanent or an artifact entering or leaving the battlefield causes a triggered ability of a permanent you control to trigger, that ability triggers an additional time.

4 / 5

The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Mythic · Illustrated by Magali Villeneuve

Final zone distribution

45 instances

2.2%

Library

28.9%

Battlefield

26.7%

Graveyard

6.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Peter Parker // Amazing Spider-Man 7 decks
2 Aragorn, the Uniter 6 decks
3 Jodah, the Unifier 6 decks
4 Yoshimaru, Ever Faithful 6 decks
5 Gandalf, Party Guest 5 decks
6 Serah Farron // Crystallized Serah 5 decks
7 Captain Sisay 3 decks
8 Gandalf the White 3 decks
9 Ratadrabik of Urborg 3 decks
10 Breya, Etherium Shaper 2 decks

The "good card" funnel

136 brought · 81 players

Brought to game

136

Ever drawn

Reached battlefield

Still on board at game end

Once cast, 44% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +9.4pp

Players who cast this card win 41% of the time (n=26) , vs 13% when it never left the library (n=82).

Observed gap +28.4pp; 95% confidence interval +9.4pp to +47.4pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

First-cast turn

n=27

19%

52%

T6-9

26%

T10+

Median 7 P25 6 · P75 10 · max 13

On curve 22% (5 / 27 cast on T5) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

27 of 100 times cast 27%

Full analysis unlocks as more games are tracked. Stats refresh nightly.

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Basic play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games; the full deep-dive page needs a larger, more diverse sample (at least 300 tracked games played by 10 or more different pilots, with no single pilot over 40 percent of the copies). Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 650,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live subset of that corpus.