Count on Luck
Enchantment
At the beginning of your upkeep, exile the top card of your library. You may play that card this turn.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #4713
Count on Luck digs deep and leaves you with a card in hand — the payoff is real, and Clive, Ifrit's Dominant turns it into a repeatable engine by triggering off the exile effect rather than treating it as a one-shot. The cost is that it asks you to commit to a build that cares about exiling cards from the top, which means it's a role-player rather than a universal include.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Clive, Ifrit's Dominant
Count on Luck is in roughly two-thirds of Clive, Ifrit's Dominant decks for an obvious reason: Clive's ability scales directly off exiling cards from the top of your library, so every card Count on Luck processes feeds the engine and builds toward his damage payoffs.
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival cares about artifacts entering and leaving play, and Count on Luck's exile-from-top effect can churn through artifacts that then get recurred or replayed for additional triggers.
Laelia, the Blade Reforged
Laelia, the Blade Reforged grows whenever cards are exiled from the top of your library, so Count on Luck is pure fuel — every card it exiles translates directly into a +1/+1 counter and a castable resource.
Gwen Stacy
Gwen Stacy rewards impulsive draw and playing cards from exile, so Count on Luck slots in as a way to generate extra castable cards while keeping the exile-matters synergy live.
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh wants cheap red spells to untap and build toward the flip, and Count on Luck fills that role while also generating card advantage when the exiled card is playable.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Count on Luck is legal across every major constructed format but lives almost exclusively in Commander, where the exile-matters theme has enough critical mass of commanders — Clive, Laelia, Gwen — to justify deckbuilding around it. In competitive one-on-one formats like Modern and Legacy, a three-mana sorcery that doesn't impact the board is simply too slow; the card advantage it generates doesn't offset the tempo loss. Pioneer and Standard give it more room to breathe if an exile-matters shell ever coalesces in those formats, but right now the constructed demand is negligible. Commander is where Count on Luck earns its slot, and specifically in dedicated exile-top decks — it's a role-player, not a good-stuff include.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
unknown tier
Pricing data for Count on Luck isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the current market rate before buying. Given that it's a build-around rather than a universally playable card, expect it to sit in a budget-friendly range unless a breakout commander pushes demand.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Clive, Ifrit's Dominant
- Pia Nalaar, Consul of Revival
- Laelia, the Blade Reforged
- Gwen Stacy
- Chandra, Fire of Kaladesh
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.