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Galadriel, Light of Valinor

Legendary Creature — Elf Noble

Alliance — Whenever another creature you control enters, choose one that hasn't been chosen this turn —
• Add {G}{G}{G}.
• Put a +1/+1 counter on each creature you control.
• Scry 2, then draw a card.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{2}{G}{W}{U}
Color identity
GUW
Rarity
mythic
Set
Tales of Middle-earth Commander
Price
$23.24
EDHREC rank
#4043
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Galadriel, Light of Valinor card art
Galadriel, Light of Valinor puts a scry-and-draw engine on the board the moment your other legendaries enter, which in the right shell means free cards every turn at zero additional mana investment. The cost is that she does almost nothing in isolation — pair her with Emiel the Blessed or Helga, Skittish Seer and she's a staple; slot her into a non-legendary-matters deck and she's a four-mana 3/3 with upside you'll rarely trigger.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Helga, Skittish Seer

Helga, Skittish Seer

23.2% of decks · synergy 0.19

Helga, Skittish Seer cares deeply about having legendary permanents in play to enable her own triggered abilities, and Galadriel, Light of Valinor turns every subsequent legendary that enters into a scry-plus-draw, stacking card selection on top of Helga's existing value engine.

02
Aragorn, the Uniter

Aragorn, the Uniter

30.2% of decks · synergy 0.19

Aragorn, the Uniter rewards casting multicolored spells with a cascade of triggered effects, and slotting a legendary-dense Naya or four-color build means Galadriel, Light of Valinor is live nearly every turn, converting each new legendary entry into filtered card draw.

03

Peter Parker

23.1% of decks · synergy 0.19

Peter Parker builds around entering-the-battlefield triggers and recurring creatures, and Galadriel, Light of Valinor plugs directly into that loop — every flicker or bounce that resets a legendary permanent becomes another scry and draw.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Galadriel, Light of Valinor earns her slot — legendary-dense battlecruiser and flicker strategies give her consistent triggers, and the 100-card singleton environment means card selection is genuinely valuable. Legacy and Vintage are both legal homes but offer her no competitive traction; the formats move too fast for a four-mana 3/3 whose payoff requires a board presence of other legendaries. Oathbreaker could support her in a legends-matters shell, but the 60-card constraint makes triggering her reliably harder. Treat her as a Commander card through and through.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Budget Alternatives

Cheaper options that do most of the same work

If $23 is too steep, Sidar Jabari of Zhalfir offers a cheaper legendary-matters draw effect in white-black shells, though it's stapled to combat and far more conditional. For pure scry-and-selection on an ETB body, Omenspeaker and similar commons get the filtering without the legendary synergy — you lose the engine entirely, but you keep the mana.

Price Context

Current price

$23.24 premium tier

At $23.24, Galadriel, Light of Valinor sits in premium territory for a card that's fundamentally role-player rather than engine closer. The price is driven by Lord of the Rings set demand and casual appeal more than raw power, so it's unlikely to climb without a reprint — pick it up if the deck calls for it, but don't chase it speculatively.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.