EDHREC ranks the best untappers for Loki in cEDH

Loki, God of Mischief is not a cute targeter deck in cEDH. It is a card-draw engine with a hard question attached: can you turn one trigger into four cards a turn cycle, and can you do it fast enough to matter before the table closes the door?

1. Filigree Sages

Filigree Sages opens the ranking because it does the job cleanly, but it asks a real price for the privilege. EDHREC calls out the card as powerful, yet expensive to cast and activate, which is exactly the tension Loki pilots have to manage: the ceiling is high, but the mana investment is not trivial.

2. Repeatable self-targeting untappers

The strongest Loki pieces are the ones that can target themselves at instant speed and keep the engine live across turns. That matters because Loki only draws when a player or permanent becomes the target of an ability you control, and that trigger only happens once each turn, so the deck wants reliable ways to make every turn cycle count.

3. Lightning Greaves

Lightning Greaves is the classic example of a card that helps Loki, but does not fully solve the puzzle. EDHREC treats it as a sorcery-speed targeter that only gets you part of the way to the full four-card turn cycle plan, which makes it more of a support piece than the centerpiece of the untap package.

4. Shuko

Shuko sits in the same category as Lightning Greaves: useful, familiar, and not quite enough on its own. It can help manufacture the target you need, but EDHREC’s framing makes clear that a card like this is not the kind of repeatable, generically strong engine cEDH decks are looking for when they are trying to stay efficient.

5. The artifact-control shell

Loki’s EDHREC tags tell the rest of the story. The commander is being tracked with Artifacts, Control, Card Draw, and Combo, which is the kind of shell that lets a narrow trigger become a real plan instead of a novelty. That is why the untapper list is not just about raw synergy, but about cards that still pull their weight when Loki is not already doing the cute thing.

6. The combo density around the commander

The early numbers show why builders are already testing the waters. EDHREC lists Loki, God of Mischief at rank 3,266 with 82 decks, and the combos page already shows 192 known combos, which signals a commander that is still early in the build cycle but has enough moving parts to reward real tuning.

7. The build window before the list settles

Timing matters here because the Marvel Super Heroes Commander season is tied to a June 26, 2026 release window, and Wizards says the product includes four ready-to-play Commander decks. That means the Loki conversation is happening while the card pool, the precon environment, and the cEDH shell all still have room to shift, so the safest cuts are the one-shot targeters that only look good when the commander is already online.

8. Fastest versus safest

If you want the fastest version of Loki, you lean toward the cards that create repeatable, instant-speed self-targeting and keep the draw engine active without asking for much setup. If you want the safest version, you keep the pieces that are individually playable and trim the brittle, low-impact lines, because cEDH rewards cards that advance your plan even when Loki is not yet doing Loki things.

That is the real shape of EDHREC’s ranking: not a list of flashy tricks, but a deck-construction test. Loki needs untappers because the commander is only as good as the table-wide rhythm you can build around that once-per-turn trigger, and right now the best builds are the ones that can answer that question before the consensus list hardens.