Loot, the Key to Everything by Questionable__

Format: Commander

Commander: Loot, the Key to Everything

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 25

Deck overview

The deck uses Loot, the Key to Everything as a recurring exile-casting engine. Its main objective is to establish several permanent types, trigger Loot, the Key to Everything at upkeep, and spend the exiled cards while payoffs convert those casts into creatures, counters, and damage. Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald, The Lost and the Damned, Impact Tremors, Passionate Archaeologist, Laelia, the Blade Reforged, and Purphoros, God of the Forge all reward this pattern. Acceleration is one of the deck's strengths, and the interaction suite is broad enough for ordinary multiplayer games. Its main weakness is access: the deck has only limited ways to find noncreature support, and the best damage engines are singleton permanents. The result is a strong casual-to-high-power value shell rather than a cEDH construction. It can create explosive turns with Etali, Primal Storm, Nalfeshnee, or Wild-Magic Sorcerer, but those ceiling lines do not establish a reliable table kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beast Whisperer
  • 1 Bilbo, Thief in the Night
  • 1 Birds of Paradise
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blessed Respite
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charred Foyer // Warped Space
  • 1 Chimil, the Inner Sun
  • 1 Cinder Glade
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Commercial District
  • 1 Counterspell
  • 1 Cultivate
  • 1 Cyclonic Rift
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delighted Halfling
  • 1 Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius
  • 1 Dryad of the Ilysian Grove
  • 1 Etali, Primal Storm
  • 1 Eternal Scourge
  • 1 Explore
  • 1 Faldorn, Dread Wolf Herald
  • 1 Finale of Devastation
  • 1 Flaming Tyrannosaurus
  • 1 Fog
  • 1 Food Chain
  • 7 Forest
  • 1 Frontier Bivouac
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Guardian Project
  • 1 Heroic Intervention
  • 1 Hidden Nursery
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Interdimensional Web Watch
  • 1 Iraxxa, Empress of Mars
  • 7 Island
  • 1 Keeper of Secrets
  • 1 Ketria Triome
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Loot, the Key to Everything
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Misthollow Griffin
  • 1 Mosswort Bridge
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Nalfeshnee
  • 1 Omenpath Journey
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Pongify
  • 1 Purphoros, God of the Forge
  • 1 Ravenform
  • 1 Regrowth
  • 1 River Song's Diary
  • 1 Rootbound Crag
  • 1 Savvy Trader
  • 1 Saw It Coming
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Sisterhood of Karn
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Squee, the Immortal
  • 1 Steam Vents
  • 1 Sulfur Falls
  • 1 Swan Song
  • 1 Sword of Forge and Frontier
  • 1 Terramorph
  • 1 The Lost and the Damned
  • 1 The Thirteenth Doctor
  • 1 Three Visits
  • 1 Uba Mask
  • 1 Utopia Sprawl
  • 1 Veil of Summer
  • 1 Wild Growth
  • 1 Wild Wasteland
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Worldly Tutor