Glamdring, Foe-hammer // Gleam of Death

An equipped Glamdring reduces Inside Information's generic X cost by the creature's power, letting you choose a much larger X while potentially paying only the two black mana.

Equipping Gandalf discounts your noncreature spells, and each one then increases Gandalf's power, making subsequent spells even cheaper while also triggering his damage ability.

The Mauler equips Glamdring for free, immediately becoming a 2-power creature that reduces each instant and sorcery spell you cast by {2} without requiring any equip-mana investment.

Gleam of Death and the later cast of Glamdring are both noncreature spells, giving two Noisemaker triggers from one card. Gleam also refills your hand with instants and sorceries, while equipped Glamdring makes those future triggers cheaper to generate.

Equipping Glamdring to Mirkwood Pathmaker converts its land-scaled power into an equally large reduction for every instant and sorcery you cast, often making expensive spells dramatically cheaper.

Gleam of Death mills six cards, putting a graveyard one card from the Councillors' power threshold while recovering spells. Once threshold boosts the Councillors' power, equipping Glamdring can give a large cost reduction to those recovered instants and sorceries.

Equipping Glamdring to the 6-power Spider reduces the cost of each instant and sorcery you cast by up to six mana, while the Spider's anti-targeting card draw makes it unusually difficult for an opponent to disrupt this powerful engine profitably.

Glamdring reduces the generic portion of The Eagles Are Coming!'s cost by the equipped creature's power, potentially reducing its kicked cost from six mana to only its three white mana.

Gleam of Death mills six cards, putting your graveyard almost immediately at the seven-card threshold for the Master's death trigger while recovering any milled instants and sorceries.

Equipping Glamdring to a high-power creature can reduce Through the Forest Gate's cost by several mana, making its otherwise difficult eight-mana cost substantially easier to reach.

Bilbo can cast Gleam of Death from the graveyard at a discount, mill six cards and recover the milled instants and sorceries, then also discount Glamdring when it is cast from exile.

Thorin bypasses Glamdring's equip cost and can place it on a high-power creature, immediately enabling a larger cost reduction for subsequent instant and sorcery spells.

Although both encourage noncreature spells, Glamdring reduces the mana actually spent to cast them, which lowers the number of cards Uncover the Moon-Letters can draw.

Casting Glamdring from exile triggers Kíli's Equipment card draw, and after achieving an enduring story Kíli can waive Glamdring's equip cost for the turn.

A developed Recruit board gives Esgaroth Garrison high power; equipping it to Glamdring converts that power directly into a large generic-mana reduction for your spells.

An Army equipped with Glamdring can use its power to reduce Gathering of Darkness's generic mana cost, and Gathering then adds three more counters to that Army, increasing Glamdring's cost reduction for subsequent instants and sorceries.

With Glamdring equipped, Desolation Prowler can activate without spending mana to raise its power to 4, reducing the cost of each instant and sorcery you cast that turn by up to four mana.

An equipped Glamdring reduces Thranduil's Decree's four generic mana by the equipped creature's power, making the expensive counterspell much easier to hold up while still developing or protecting your board.

An equipped creature with at least 2 power reduces Bilbo's Gambit's generic and white mana requirements enough to cast it for free, making it much easier to hold up as disruption.

After threshold, the Bird is a cheap evasive 2-power carrier that makes instant and sorcery spells cost up to two less through Glamdring, while Speak Secrets helps keep your hand stocked with spells to exploit that reduction.

Equipping Sting and Glamdring to the same creature makes Sting's hone counters increase that creature's power, which directly increases Glamdring's cost reduction for instant and sorcery spells.