Lock and Load
- Mana cost
- {2}{U}
- Type
- Sorcery
- Set
- Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander #15 (rare)
- Price
- $1.17 USD
Draw a card, then draw a card for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn.
Plot {3}{U} (You may pay {3}{U} and exile this card from your hand. Cast it as a sorcery on a later turn without paying its mana cost. Plot only as a sorcery.)
Lock and Load has 2 printings, first in Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander (2024). EDHREC ranks it #6,524 among Commander cards. It appears most in Stella Lee, Wild Card decks (4,559 on EDHREC). 1 public deck on TCG runs it. It has 6 official rulings.
Legality
- commander: legal
- legacy: legal
- vintage: legal
- pauper: not legal
- modern: not legal
- pioneer: not legal
- standard: not legal
- brawl: not legal
Public decks that run Lock and Load
- Quick Draw - Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander, led by Stella Lee, Wild Card
Commanders that run Lock and Load most
Deck counts from EDHREC.
- Stella Lee, Wild Card: 4,559 decks
- Ral, Monsoon Mage // Ral, Leyline Prodigy: 2,108 decks
- Bria, Riptide Rogue: 1,229 decks
- Veyran, Voice of Duality: 1,209 decks
- Lyse Hext: 861 decks
- Doc Aurlock, Grizzled Genius: 800 decks
- Eris, Roar of the Storm: 794 decks
- Geralf, the Fleshwright: 709 decks
Often played with Lock and Load
Cards that show up in the same decks on EDHREC.
Rulings
- : Plot abilities are written “Plot [cost],” which means “Any time you have priority during your main phase while the stack is empty, you may pay [cost] and exile this card from your hand. It becomes plotted.”
- : If you’re casting a plotted card from exile without paying its mana cost, you can’t choose to cast it for any other alternative costs. You can, however, pay additional costs, such as kicker costs. If the plotted card has any mandatory additional costs, those must still be paid to cast the spell.
- : Exiling a card using its plot ability is a special action. Once you announce you’re taking that action, no other player can respond by trying to remove that card from your hand.
- : You can’t cast a plotted card on the same turn it became plotted. On any future turn, you may cast that card from exile without paying its mana cost during your main phase while the stack is empty.
- : Lock and Load will count any other instant and sorcery spells you’ve cast this turn. It doesn’t matter if the other spells resolved, didn’t resolve, were countered, or are still on the stack.
- : If a plotted card has {X} in its mana cost, you must choose 0 as the value of X when casting it without paying its mana cost.