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Loki, the Deceiver

Loki, the Deceiver

Legendary Creature — God Sorcerer Villain · {1}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander

Whenever Loki attacks, create a tapped and attacking token that's a copy of another target Villain you control, except it isn't legendary and it's an Illusion in addition to its other types. Sacrifice that token at the beginning of the next end step. Whenever one or more Villains you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.
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What Loki, the Deceiver actually does

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What a Loki, the Deceiver deck wants

The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.

Best cards for Loki, the Deceiver

Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.

Make the commander connect — a body that never deals combat damage never triggers

  1. Tetsuko Umezawa, Fugitive2 mana
  2. Archetype of Aggression3 mana
  3. Frostcliff Siege3 mana
  4. Gleaming Overseer3 mana
  5. Galerider Sliver1 mana
  6. Favorable Winds2 mana
  7. Rogue Class2 mana
  8. Eldrazi Monument5 mana

A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses

  1. Bojuka Bog0 mana
  2. Chrome Mox0 mana
  3. Mystic Sanctuary0 mana
  4. Temple of Epiphany0 mana
  5. Bloodfell Caves0 mana
  6. Cabaretti Courtyard0 mana
  7. Dimir Aqueduct0 mana
  8. Dismal Backwater0 mana

A body of the exact type the commander's trigger requires — the wrong type is worthless here regardless of quality

  1. Lady Octopus, Inspired Inventor1 mana
  2. Electro, Assaulting Battery3 mana
  3. Norman Osborn // Green Goblin2 mana
  4. Aerial Doombot1 mana
  5. Kid Loki1 mana
  6. Whiplash, Vengeful Engineer1 mana
  7. Chameleon, Master of Disguise4 mana
  8. Common Crook2 mana

A team pump that actually pumps tokens

  1. Nesting Grounds0 mana
  2. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  3. Patchwork Banner3 mana
  4. Castle Embereth0 mana
  5. Fire Nation Palace0 mana
  6. Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
  7. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  8. Crash Through1 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Reality Shift2 mana
  2. Wild Magic Surge2 mana
  3. Pongify1 mana
  4. Rapid Hybridization1 mana
  5. Resculpt2 mana
  6. Defile1 mana
  7. Tragic Slip1 mana
  8. Suspend1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Do or Die2 mana
  2. Force of Despair3 mana
  3. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  4. Displacement Wave2 mana
  5. Accursed Marauder2 mana
  6. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  7. Innocent Blood1 mana
  8. Breaking Point3 mana

Answer a spell or ability before it resolves

  1. Pact of Negation0 mana
  2. Counterspell2 mana
  3. Three Steps Ahead1 mana
  4. Long River's Pull2 mana
  5. Force of Will5 mana
  6. Abjure1 mana
  7. Archmage's Charm3 mana
  8. Cancel3 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Insatiable Avarice1 mana
  6. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  7. Grim Tutor3 mana
  8. Liliana Vess // Liliana Vess0 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Orcish Bowmasters2 mana
  4. Curiosity1 mana
  5. Wizard Class1 mana
  6. Black Market Connections3 mana
  7. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  8. Morbid Opportunist3 mana

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