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Key to the City

Artifact MV 2

Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.

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What it does

T, Discard a card: Up to one target creature can't be blocked this turn.

Whenever this artifact becomes untapped, you may pay 2. If you do, draw a card.

Rulings

4 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.

  • 2016-09-20

    Key to the City's last ability triggers during your untap step, but it's put onto the stack at the same time as abilities that trigger at the beginning of your upkeep step. Even though Key to the City's ability triggered first, you may order it before or after other abilities you control that are put onto the stack at this time.

  • 2016-09-20

    Activating Key to the City's ability targeting a creature that has already been blocked won't cause it to become unblocked.

  • 2016-09-20

    You can pay 2 only once each time Key to the City's triggered ability resolves. You can't pay more to draw additional cards.

  • 2016-09-20

    You can activate Key to the City's first ability without targeting any creature.

Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.

In the 99

Every deck whose current list includes Key to the City, whatever its commander.

Decks running it 3
Games played 0
Win rate — Fewer than 5 completed games — not enough to publish a rate yet.
Confirmed on board 0 Games where a board photo caught it actually in play.

Most played under

Commander Decks Games Win rate
Terra, Herald of Hope 2 0 —
Typhoid Mary, Fractured 1 0 —

Colors it shows up in

  • Mardu 2 decks
  • Rakdos 1 deck

Every version of Key to the City

8 printings, newest first. Prices are the market figures Scryfall publishes, refreshed nightly — a printing with no figure shows a dash rather than a zero, because Scryfall genuinely publishes none for some of them.

Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Key to the City — a name search across every version, for the printings TCGplayer publishes no direct link to.

Aggregated from Commander games tracked in TurnZero HQ. Every figure counts decks and games only — no individual deck list, player or playgroup is identified. Win rates are withheld below 5 completed games, where the sample is too small to mean anything.