Loot, Exuberant Explorer
Legendary Creature — Beast Noble
You may play an additional land on each of your turns.
, 
: Look at the top six cards of your library. You may reveal a creature card with mana value less than or equal to the number of lands you control from among them and put it onto the battlefield. Put the rest on the bottom in a random order.
- CMC
- 3
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- G
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Foundations Promos
- Price
- —
- EDHREC rank
- #970
Loot, Exuberant Explorer enters the battlefield and immediately puts a land into play tapped, trading one mana of setup cost for a permanent board advantage that compounds every time you untap. Slinza, the Spiked Stampede decks run it above 56% of the time because that free land drop feeds directly into the trample-and-pump engine on turn one of Slinza hitting the table.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede
Slinza, the Spiked Stampede wants to power out as much mana as possible to keep the stampede going, and Loot, Exuberant Explorer's enters-the-battlefield land drop does exactly that while also being a creature body that survives into combat.
Loot, the Key to Everything
Loot, the Key to Everything shares more than a name with Loot, Exuberant Explorer — both reward you for moving fast, and the Explorer's free land accelerates the unlock conditions that Loot, the Key to Everything needs to start generating value.
Tifa Lockhart
Tifa Lockhart rewards attacking with multiple creatures, so Loot, Exuberant Explorer pulls double duty: it ramps you into Tifa's high-cost payoffs and contributes a body to the combat-step trigger count.
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign
Tannuk, Memorial Ensign benefits from having a wide creature base to work with, and Loot, Exuberant Explorer provides both a cheap body and a land drop that lets Tannuk hit its mana thresholds a turn earlier.
The Wandering Minstrel
The Wandering Minstrel wants a full hand of spells to cascade into, and Loot, Exuberant Explorer accelerates the land base so you can keep deploying threats without missing a beat.
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 |
Loot, Exuberant Explorer is legal across every major constructed format except Pauper, but Commander is where it earns its slot. In Commander the enters-the-battlefield land ramp is repeatable across multiple game states — blink it, reanimate it, flicker it — and the single-card mana advantage adds up over a long multiplayer game. In 60-card formats like Modern and Pioneer the effect is too low-impact on raw rate; a two-mana 1/1 that fetches a tapped land competes poorly against dedicated ramp spells that cost the same or less. Standard and Legacy are similarly lukewarm unless a specific synergy deck wants a cheap creature with an ETB land trigger. Stick to Commander unless you're building around the creature type or a flicker engine in another format.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
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Pricing data for Loot, Exuberant Explorer isn't currently available, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for the live market price before buying. Given its inclusion rates north of 50% in top synergy commanders, demand is real — if the price is under a dollar it's a straightforward pickup; above that, weigh it against cheaper land-ramp alternatives like Farhaven Elf.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.