The Commander
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.
Guide
Gameplan
Loot is a beefy 5-mana attacker with double strike, vigilance, and haste that immediately threatens combat damage while doubling as a value engine through its three one-time exhaust abilities. You curve into Loot, swing for chip damage and commander-damage pressure, then bank the exhaust ramp, card draw, or removal as the game demands. Most builds lean into making Loot bigger or proliferating/untapping to reuse abilities, closing games through commander damage or a big combo turn fueled by the burst mana and cards.
Strengths
- Built-in card advantage, ramp, and removal stapled to a 4-power double-striker, so it never feels like a do-nothing commander.
- Vigilance plus haste means it pressures life totals the turn it lands and still blocks, demanding immediate answers.
- Temur color identity gives access to the best ramp, card draw, and interaction in green/blue/red.
- Double strike makes it an efficient commander-damage clock and a great target for buffs and equipment.
Weaknesses
- Exhaust abilities can only be used once each, so the value ceiling is capped unless you build to reset or copy them.
- Spreads its abilities across three different colors, making early color requirements demanding.
- No evasion natively, so committed blockers can stonewall the commander-damage plan.
- Removal-magnet: losing Loot repeatedly to spot removal saps tempo and resources.
Key Cards
- Sword of Feast and Famine — Grants evasion, protection, and an untap that lets you keep mana up while pushing double-strike commander damage.
- Tezzeret's Gambit — Proliferate effects can reset or interact with exhaust counters and pad your draw plan in these colors.
- Thousand-Year Elixir — Untaps Loot to chain multiple exhaust activations in a single turn.
- Rite of Replication — Copying Loot gives you fresh, unused exhaust abilities for explosive value or lethal damage.
- Berserk — Doubles a double-striker's already huge swing for a surprise one-shot kill.
- Heroic Intervention — Protects your commander investment from board wipes and targeted removal in a removal-heavy format.
Upgrade Path
Add untap and copy effects (Thousand-Year Elixir, Rite of Replication, Kiki-Jiki) so you can squeeze multiple uses out of the exhaust abilities. Layer in protection and evasion equipment to make the commander-damage plan reliable against removal and blockers. Finally, upgrade your mana base with fast ramp and dual lands to support the demanding multi-color activation costs and convert Loot's bursts into a real combo or X-spell payoff.
Core Cards
The most-played cards for this commander, built from aggregated deck data (the Mythic Graph). Build public decks to seed it.
Win Conditions
- ▸Commander damage via double strike, often boosted by equipment or pump spells.
- ▸Closing with a big mana/card-advantage turn into a haymaker or X-spell.
- ▸Repeated 3-damage exhaust pings plus burn to grind out the table.
- ▸A combo or copy effect that resets exhaust abilities for an explosive finish.
Archetypes
- Voltron — Double strike, vigilance, and haste make Loot an ideal commander-damage carrier for equipment and auras.
- Big Mana Ramp — The exhaust adds three mana and Temur excels at ramping into powerful payoffs.
- Midrange Value — The stapled draw, ramp, and burn give a grindy goodstuff shell strong card advantage.
- Combo — Burst mana and three cards from exhaust can fuel storm or spell-chain finishes.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (GRU), by popularity.
