Loot, the Key to Everything

Legendary Creature — Beast Noble

Ward {1} (Whenever this creature becomes the target of a spell or ability an opponent controls, counter it unless that player pays {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.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Alchemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Brawl	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Dandan	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Judge's Tower	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Pre-release	Legal
Standard	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (2)

jawz on GURW Loot Too Cute

2 weeks ago

I'm still tinkering. Something about all the crazy exile play loops feels unique and interesting. Should just trash the deck but... there's something about it.

I feel like Jodah, the Unifier gives a top end threat that it was missing.

One problem with Jodah is that when I'm casting a legend, they're usually mana value 3, and I only have Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius to pay off Jodah's trigger. But The Goose Mother is another play at mana value 2 that surprisingly fits in very well with the rest of the deck (especially with Rocco, Street Chef and Aurlock). I always wanted goose mommy to be good somewhere so I'm happy to try it. If you get some food artifacts in play, Loot, the Key to Everything accelerates.

I had to admit that with all the legends I'm kinda committed to a Relic of Legends mana fixer. Once the relic's in play that helps goose mommy too.

With the changes, the threat level of the deck's plays seem to be a good step higher. But the deck is insanely hard to pilot. Sequencing between Jodah's trigger and Kellan's trigger and discover triggers and the Outcaster's card draws and plotting and play from exile and generating foods and on and on. It's harder than combat mathing for real.

There's a good argument for cutting one of the angles. Like cut the adventure stuff, or cut the discover stuff. Or cut the plotting stuff? It's really hard to say.

EquivocalVision on Will Niv-Mizzet be the Next …

1 month ago

It does seem like they're leaning towards Jace and Vraska as the next villains. It's a very interesting idea. We've always had 1 big bad (the other Eldrazi titans were technically following Emrakul.) If I may make some leaps... Loot, the Key to Everything appears right at the end before the next standard set, Bloomburrow. Loot is frickin adorable. A little bit monstrous, but adorable. Bloomburrow is set to be an animal plane with a bunch of natural animal creatures. Loot isn't what I'd consider to be a natural occurring creature, but if he's one of a kind, he could be Bloomburrow's "God" or leader or something. Anyway, that's not important to what I'm thinking. Just a passing thought.

I'm wondering if we might have "villains" acting as heroes next. Because we have previously seen heroes acting as villains (Phyrexia, and now potentially Jace and Vraska).

What if Ashiok gets to blur the lines a little more? What if they find out Jace used their image to accomplish what Vraska and he have, and then we head into Duskmourn, a nightmare plane we've never seen before, but could now be revealed because of Loot, same as Bloomburrow, and Ashiok is the pseudo-god of the nightmare plane? The theme of resetting the multiverse sounds a lot like the mending. And who better to stop the need for another mending, and the "villains" that would cause the need (they are attempting to reset the multiverse, this sounds like pre-mending bs to me. Lol) then a mysterious nightmare Planeswalker, potentially from a previously undisclosed plane of nightmare now made evident because of Loot's multiverse mind map being discovered? And flavorfully, Dimir is really good at discard, Jace is really good at card draw. The two are destined to be pitted against one another somehow. I just think flipping the script and having Ashiok be forced into a hero's role for a time would be sick.