Loki MTG Combo Guide: Building Around Lord of Misrule’s Copy Engine

Loki got three different legendary cards in MTG Marvel Super Heroes, and they don’t all want to do the same thing. One of them is a genuine, table-warping build-around. Here’s which Loki is actually worth building, and how the copy engine works.

The Build-Around: Loki, Lord of Misrule

{3}{U} Legendary Creature — God Sorcerer Villain, 3/4.

{U}, {T}: Choose target creature you control. Each creature you control other than the chosen creature becomes a copy of that creature until end of turn, except it isn’t legendary. Activate only as a sorcery.

This is the real build-around. Whatever your best creature is on a given turn — a huge stat-stick, something with a powerful “enters the battlefield” or attack trigger, anything — Loki turns your ENTIRE board into copies of it for the turn. Get a strong ETB creature down, untap, swing with a board full of copies all re-triggering that same effect. The fact that the copies aren’t legendary means you can have multiples of even legendary creatures without the legend rule getting in the way.

How to Actually Build the Deck

You want two things: cheap, disposable creatures to fill the board so there’s plenty to copy, and a small number of payoff creatures worth copying. ETB-trigger creatures are the best targets — if a creature draws a card, makes a Treasure, or deals damage when it enters, copying it doesn’t even need combat to be good, though you’ll usually want to attack too. Token generators are great here since tokens are exactly the kind of disposable bodies you want sitting around waiting to become copies.

What to Actually Copy: Real Target Recommendations

Per EDHREC’s data on real Loki, Lord of Misrule decks, here are the highest-synergy creatures players are actually running as copy targets:

• Homunculus Horde (66% synergy) — whenever you draw your second card each turn, it creates a token copy of itself. Copy it with Loki’s ability and you suddenly have multiple Hordes all watching for that same draw trigger, snowballing token copies fast.



• Mischievous Mystic (69% synergy) — flying, and makes a Faerie token on your second draw each turn. A clean, cheap value engine that gets much better once Loki has copied it across your board.



• The Mindskinner and Hermes, Overseer of Elpis (62% and 61% synergy) — both strong standalone value creatures that become genuinely punishing once duplicated across the board.

The pattern across all of these: Loki doesn’t care what the creature does specifically, so the best targets are ones with a triggered ability that fires on its own (entering the battlefield, an upkeep trigger, a draw trigger) rather than something that needs to attack or tap to do anything — those triggers go off on EVERY copy simultaneously the moment Loki’s ability resolves.

The Token Engine: Loki, the Deceiver

{1}{U}{B}{R} Legendary Creature — God Sorcerer Villain, 4/4.

Whenever Loki attacks, create a tapped and attacking token copy of another target Villain you control (non-legendary, an Illusion in addition to its types, sacrificed at end of turn). Whenever one or more Villains you control deal combat damage to a player, draw a card.

A more straightforwardly aggressive build — this version wants a Villain-heavy board and turns your best Villain’s ETB or combat-damage trigger into a free extra copy every attack, with card draw attached. It’s also confirmed as the alternate commander for the Doom Prevails precon, so if you already own that deck, this version is a free upgrade path.

The Control Piece: Loki, God of Lies

Whenever you cast a spell that targets only a single creature, gain control of that creature until end of turn. If it’s your turn, untap it and it gains haste.

This version rewards a deck full of cheap single-target spells — every one of them doubles as a temporary Threaten effect. Steal an opponent’s best blocker on your turn, swing with it, then it goes back to them at end of turn. Less of a combo piece, more of a steady value engine for a spells-matter shell.

Which Loki Should You Build?

If you want the genuinely unique, board-warping build-around, it’s Loki, Lord of Misrule — nothing else in the set does what his copy effect does. If you already own the Doom Prevails precon and want a Villain-tribal upgrade path, Loki, the Deceiver is the easier swap-in. Loki, God of Lies is the pick if you’d rather lean into a spells-matter control shell than a creature-based combo.

For more Marvel Super Heroes build-arounds, see our guides to the Thanos Commander deck and Iron Man’s artifact-tutor combo.

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