Gandalf, Friend of the Shire
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Magic: The Gathering
Mana cost
The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earthLTR · #501
- Card type
- Legendary Creature — Avatar Wizard
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Indicative price
- 0.35 € · 0.62 $ · ★ 0.74 $
- Mana value
- 4
- Power
- 2
- Toughness
- 4
- Colour
- Blue
Card text
Flash You may cast sorcery spells as though they had flash. Whenever the Ring tempts you, if you chose a creature other than Gandalf as your Ring-bearer, draw a card.
Format legality
- BrawlLegal
- CommanderLegal
- CompetitivebrawlLegal
- DuelLegal
- GladiatorLegal
- HistoricLegal
- LegacyLegal
- ModernLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
- TimelessLegal
- VintageLegal
Legalities follow the imported catalogue; check format rules before a tournament.
Data imported on 2026-10-06 (UTC).
Indicative Scryfall prices, updated daily. ★: foil; ★ E: etched foil. EUR and USD represent different markets.
Printing information
- Illustrator
- Dmitry Burmak
- Card language
- English
- Release date
- 2023-06-23
Flavour text
"After a hundred years, Hobbits can still surprise you at a pinch."
Rulings
If the creature you choose as your Ring-bearer was already your Ring-bearer, that still counts as choosing that creature as your Ring-bearer for the purpose of abilities that trigger "whenever you choose a creature as your Ring-bearer" or abilities that care about which creature was chosen as your Ring-bearer.
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."
