Gadwick, the Wizened
Legendary Creature — Human Wizard
When Gadwick enters, draw X cards.
Whenever you cast a blue spell, tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- U
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Throne of Eldraine
- Price
- $1.16
- EDHREC rank
- #6212
Gadwick, the Wizened enters and immediately taps down your opponents' boards — every nonland permanent they control, scaled to how much mana you poured in. The cost is real: you need X at four or higher before the tap effect meaningfully disrupts a table, and Hylda of the Icy Crown is the commander that turns those taps into a second engine rather than a one-shot inconvenience.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Hylda of the Icy Crown
Gadwick, the Wizened's mass-tap trigger fires Hylda of the Icy Crown's ability for every tapped permanent, turning a single cast into a flood of tokens, card draw, or +1/+1 counters depending on what Hylda is doing that turn.
Azami, Lady of Scrolls
Gadwick, the Wizened is a Wizard, so Azami, Lady of Scrolls can tap it immediately to draw a card — but the real pull is that Gadwick fills the board with card draw on entry and slots cleanly into the Wizard tribal package Azami already wants.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Gadwick, the Wizened is a Commander card through and through — the X cost and the mass-tap effect are both calibrated for a format where games go long, mana gets abundant, and shutting down three opponents' boards at once is worth seven or eight mana. In competitive 60-card formats like Modern and Legacy, a seven-plus mana sorcery-speed play that doesn't immediately win the game doesn't make the cut, and Pioneer offers no exception. Oathbreaker is the one exception worth noting: as a signature spell or in a spell-slinging shell, Gadwick can pull double duty as a hand-filler and a tap-down finisher in a smaller format where its ceiling arrives a turn or two earlier.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$1.16 cheap tier
At $1.16, Gadwick, the Wizened sits in impulse-buy territory — cheap enough to slot into any blue Commander deck without a second thought. Supply has kept the price flat, and nothing on the horizon suggests a spike, so pick it up whenever and don't overthink it.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.