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Loran of the Third Path

Legendary Creature — Human Artificer · {2}{W} · White commander

Vigilance When Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment. {T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.

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What Loran of the Third Path 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 · etbWhen Loran enters, destroy up to one target artifact or enchantment.
• Activated ability{T}: You and target opponent each draw a card.
• Keyword · vigilancevigilance

What a Loran of the Third Path deck needs

Plays as ETB removal & value (blink). What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

• blink and recursion to re-buy Loran's ETB (artifact/enchantment removal)
• opponent-draw punishers (Loran makes an opponent draw too)
• enough haste/untap to use the tap once a turn, no more

The Loran of the Third Path deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

• 4× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
• 10× Exile a permanent you control and return it — the button a value-ETB deck presses
• 4× Untap the commander so the tap ability is an engine, not a one-shot
• 11× A permanent whose value is in its enter-the-battlefield trigger — the payload a blink deck reuses
• 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
• 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
• 1× Answer a whole board at once
• 7× Refill your hand
• 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

Best cards for Loran of the Third Path

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.

Combos with Loran of the Third Path

Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Loran of the Third Path is a piece of, and how many decks list them.

• Loran of the Third Path + Mind Over Matter1,657 decks
• Loran of the Third Path + Chainer, Nightmare Adept + Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Ashnod's Altar2 decks
• Loran of the Third Path + Chainer, Nightmare Adept + Marvin, Murderous Mimic + Krark-Clan Ironworks

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