Faithless Looting
Sorcery
Draw two cards, then discard two cards.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 1
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- R
- Rarity
- common
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #93
Faithless Looting draws two cards and puts two cards in the graveyard for one mana — that's the deal, and in graveyard-matters decks it's a better deal than it looks. The discard isn't a cost; it's the point, and flashback means you run the whole sequence twice for three mana total.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Quintorius, History Chaser
Quintorius, History Chaser triggers off spells cast from the graveyard, so Faithless Looting's flashback is a free trigger stapled to a loot — every copy does double duty fueling the engine.
The Beamtown Bullies
The Beamtown Bullies needs fatties in the graveyard to reanimate into opponents' boards, and Faithless Looting is one of the cheapest ways to pitch them while replacing itself.
Disa the Restless
Disa the Restless cares about Lhurgoyf creatures in the graveyard, so Faithless Looting does exactly what the deck wants: stock the bin and replace itself in the same motion.
Brallin, Skyshark Rider // Shabraz, the Skyshark
Every discard in a Brallin, Skyshark Rider // Shabraz, the Skyshark deck is a damage trigger, so Faithless Looting and its flashback generate up to four triggers for three total mana.
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad puts experience counters on assassination targets, and Faithless Looting lets you cycle through the deck quickly to find them while stocking the graveyard for any recursive payoffs in the 99.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Faithless Looting was banned in Modern for years because the combination of cheap looting and flashback was too powerful for graveyard strategies at that speed — it's back now, and Dredge and Hollow One shells still reach for it first. In Legacy and Vintage it competes with Brainstorm and Ponder for cantrip slots and usually loses that fight, but reanimator lists that specifically want discard effects run it alongside the blue spells rather than instead of them. Pauper is where it quietly overperforms — the card is legal and common, and any commons-legal graveyard deck treats it as a staple. In Commander, the rate is good enough that graveyard, reanimator, and madness strategies all want it, though the lack of pure card advantage means you should only run Faithless Looting if your deck actually profits from the cards hitting the bin.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Faithless Looting is deep bulk — pick up as many copies as you need without a second thought. High reprint volume across multiple sets keeps it anchored near this price indefinitely.
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Sources
Mentioned
- Quintorius, History Chaser
- The Beamtown Bullies
- Disa the Restless
- Brallin, Skyshark Rider // Shabraz, the Skyshark
- Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.