Loot, the Pathfinder
Legendary Creature — Beast Noble
Double strike, vigilance, haste
Exhaust — 
, 
: Add three mana of any one color. (Activate each exhaust ability only once.)
Exhaust — 
, : Draw three cards.
Exhaust — 
, : Loot deals 3 damage to any target.
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- GRU
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Aetherdrift
- Price
- $0.66
- EDHREC rank
- #10275
Loot, the Pathfinder drops a free artifact onto the battlefield every time it deals combat damage — an engine that snowballs fast in any shell that can protect it or give it evasion. The cost is that it dies to every removal spell in the format, and Deadeye Navigator lines aside, you're leaning on a combat-damage trigger in a format full of blockers; Loot, the Key to Everything commanders accept that risk because the payoff is real.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Loot, the Key to Everything
Loot, the Key to Everything exists to abuse artifact-on-hit triggers, and Loot, the Pathfinder is the most literal possible extension of that game plan — every successful swing with either creature accelerates the other, turning a lightly contested board into a cascade of free permanents.
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 |
Commander is where Loot, the Pathfinder does its real work — the 100-card singleton format is full of high-value artifacts worth cheating into play, and multiplayer games give enough opponents that connecting with combat damage is at least occasionally viable. In 1v1 formats like Legacy and Vintage, the trigger is harder to land and the card is simply too slow for those environments; it's legal but not competitive. Modern and Pioneer are similar stories — combat-damage triggers that require the creature to survive a full attack step don't line up against removal-dense, fast-paced fields. Standard is the one exception where a lower power ceiling makes Loot, the Pathfinder potentially playable in a dedicated artifacts build, though it still demands protection.
Key Combos
Combo lines featuring this card
Price Context
Current price
$0.66 bulk tier
At $0.66, Loot, the Pathfinder sits squarely in bulk territory — easy to pick up, easy to trade for, and priced exactly where a niche Commander role-player should be. It has no obvious path to a spike unless artifact-combo pieces in its color identity suddenly push it into must-run status, so buy it cheap and don't sweat the cost.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.