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Likeness Looter

Creature — Faerie Shapeshifter

Flying
{T}: Draw a card, then discard a card.
{X}: This creature becomes a copy of target creature card in your graveyard with mana value X, except it has flying and this ability. Activate only as a sorcery.

CMC
2
Mana cost
{U}{B}
Color identity
BU
Rarity
rare
Set
Wilds of Eldraine Promos
Price
$4.04
EDHREC rank
#2037
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Likeness Looter card art
Likeness Looter turns every discard into a looting effect and copies any creature on the board as a base 1/1 — repeated card selection stapled to flexible cloning is a lot of value on a two-mana body. The cost is that the copy enters as a 1/1 regardless of the original's stats, which matters less in engines like Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer that care about discarding than in power-based shells like Selvala, Heart of the Wilds where the size of the creature is the point.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer

74.5% of decks · synergy 0.67

Likeness Looter is a core piece in Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer decks — every activation discards a nonland card, which Oskar can cast for free, turning the looter into a continuous engine rather than just card selection.

02
Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist

58.4% of decks · synergy 0.52

Hashaton, Scarab's Fist rewards milling and graveyard fill, and Likeness Looter accelerates that while copying threats from any graveyard or board, giving the deck both fuel and flexible threats.

03
The Ancient One

The Ancient One

46.4% of decks · synergy 0.39

The Ancient One decks want to exile cards from graveyards and self-mill aggressively, and Likeness Looter feeds the yard while copying whatever threat is most relevant in a given game state.

04
Sefris of the Hidden Ways

Sefris of the Hidden Ways

44.1% of decks · synergy 0.37

Sefris of the Hidden Ways triggers off creatures entering from the graveyard, and Likeness Looter's discard outlet helps stock the yard while the copy ability provides additional creature entries to chain dungeon progress.

05

Emet-Selch, Unsundered

43.7% of decks · synergy 0.36

Emet-Selch, Unsundered cares about assembling creature types and recurring from the graveyard, and Likeness Looter's copy ability lets the deck mirror whatever creature type is most useful while the looting keeps the hand cycling.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is where Likeness Looter does its best work — the combination of free looting on every activation and on-demand creature copying scales well in multiplayer games where the board is full of targets worth copying. In competitive EDH the 1/1 base stat line on copies is a real limitation, but in most powered and mid-power tables the flexible cloning effect more than compensates. In constructed formats like Modern and Pioneer, Likeness Looter is a fringe consideration in graveyard or discard-matters shells, but a two-mana 1/1 that costs mana to activate each time faces stiff competition from faster engines. Standard legality makes it accessible to newer players, but its ceiling there is low without a dedicated discard payoff strategy built around it.

Key Combos

Combo lines featuring this card

Price Context

Current price

$4.04 cheap tier

At $4.04, Likeness Looter sits at the low end of meaningful Commander staples — cheap enough to slot into any graveyard or discard deck without budget hesitation. Given its high inclusion rate in popular commanders, the price is likely to hold or tick up as more players discover the Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer and Hashaton, Scarab's Fist synergies.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.