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Loot, the Key to Everything
Legendary Creature — Beast Noble · {G}{U}{R} · Green/Red/Blue commander
Ward {1}
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of card types among other nonland permanents you control. You may play those cards this turn.
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What Loot, the Key to Everything actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · upkeepAt the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top X cards of your library, where X is the number of card types among other nonland permanents you control. You may play those cards this turn.
- Keyword · wardward
What a Loot, the Key to Everything deck wants
The plan the Forge derives for this commander: the roles it fills and how many of each.
- 39× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 2× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Loot, the Key to Everything
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.
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Mosswort Bridge0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Chromatic Lantern3 mana
- Arcane Lighthouse0 mana
- Castle Embereth0 mana
- Eye of Ugin0 mana
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Cryptolith Rite2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Suspend1 mana
- Snap2 mana
- Into the Flood Maw1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Displacement Wave2 mana
- Breaking Point3 mana
- Crack the Earth1 mana
- Simplify1 mana
- Filter Out3 mana
- Kozilek's Return3 mana
- Akki Blizzard-Herder2 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- Counterspell2 mana
- Three Steps Ahead1 mana
- Long River's Pull2 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Abjure1 mana
- Archmage's Charm3 mana
- Cancel3 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
- Nature's Rhythm2 mana
- Neoform2 mana
- Celestial Reunion1 mana
- Worldly Tutor1 mana
- Reshape2 mana
- March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
- Mask of the Mimic1 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Garruk's Uprising3 mana
- Rhystic Study3 mana
- Faerie Mastermind2 mana
- Beast Whisperer4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
- Guardian Augmenter3 mana
- Cryptothrall4 mana
- Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
- Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Amber0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mox Opal0 mana
- Birds of Paradise1 mana
- Crop Rotation1 mana
- Delighted Halfling1 mana