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Loot, the Pathfinder

Loot, the Pathfinder

Legendary Creature — Beast Noble · {2}{G}{U}{R} · Green/Red/Blue commander

Double strike, vigilance, haste Exhaust — {G}, {T}: Add three mana of any one color. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.) Exhaust — {U}, {T}: Draw three cards. Exhaust — {R}, {T}: Loot deals 3 damage to any target.
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What Loot, the Pathfinder actually does

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What a Loot, the Pathfinder deck wants

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

Best cards for Loot, the Pathfinder

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.

Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise

  1. Rising of the Day3 mana
  2. Temur Ascendancy3 mana
  3. Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
  4. Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki3 mana
  5. Frostcliff Siege3 mana
  6. Goblin Chieftain3 mana
  7. Blacksmith's Talent1 mana
  8. The Fire Crystal4 mana

Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot

  1. Aggravated Assault3 mana
  2. Bear Umbra4 mana
  3. Sword of Feast and Famine3 mana
  4. Wilderness Reclamation4 mana
  5. Amulet of Vigor1 mana
  6. Freed from the Real3 mana
  7. Nature's Will4 mana
  8. Pemmin's Aura3 mana

A creature that HAS the keyword the commander's trigger counts — a card that merely says the word is not one

  1. Bristly Bill, Spine Sower2 mana
  2. Okaun, Eye of Chaos // Okaun, Eye of Chaos0 mana
  3. Primordial Hydra2 mana
  4. Tifa Lockhart2 mana
  5. Voracious Hydra2 mana
  6. Mossborn Hydra3 mana
  7. Twinferno2 mana
  8. Fireshrieker3 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. Suspend1 mana
  7. Snap2 mana
  8. Into the Flood Maw1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Blasphemous Act9 mana
  2. Displacement Wave2 mana
  3. Breaking Point3 mana
  4. Crack the Earth1 mana
  5. Simplify1 mana
  6. Filter Out3 mana
  7. Kozilek's Return3 mana
  8. Akki Blizzard-Herder2 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. Green Sun's Zenith1 mana
  2. Nature's Rhythm2 mana
  3. Neoform2 mana
  4. Celestial Reunion1 mana
  5. Worldly Tutor1 mana
  6. Reshape2 mana
  7. March of Burgeoning Life1 mana
  8. Mask of the Mimic1 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Mystic Remora1 mana
  2. Skullclamp1 mana
  3. Curiosity1 mana
  4. Wizard Class1 mana
  5. Garruk's Uprising3 mana
  6. Rhystic Study3 mana
  7. Faerie Mastermind2 mana
  8. Beast Whisperer4 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Hexing Squelcher2 mana
  2. Innkeeper's Talent2 mana
  3. Guardian Augmenter3 mana
  4. Cryptothrall4 mana
  5. Saryth, the Viper's Fang4 mana
  6. Tekuthal, Inquiry Dominus4 mana
  7. Lost in the Maze2 mana
  8. Lightning Greaves2 mana

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