Lock and Load
Tracked across real Commander games played through TurnZero HQ.
What it does
Draw a card, then draw a card for each other instant and sorcery spell you've cast this turn.
Plot 3 (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.)
Rulings
6 official rulings, in the order Wizards published them.
- 2024-04-12
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.”
- 2024-04-12
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.
- 2024-04-12
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.
- 2024-04-12
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.
- 2024-04-12
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.
- 2024-04-12
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.
Rulings are Wizards of the Coast's own, mirrored from Scryfall and refreshed nightly.
In the 99
Every deck whose current list includes Lock and Load, whatever its commander.
Most played under
| Commander | Decks | Games | Win rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stella Lee, Wild Card | 1 | 0 | — |
Colors it shows up in
- Izzet 1 deck
Lock and Load price history
The Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander #15 printing, as Scryfall reports the TCGplayer market. Updated nightly. Click any version below to chart its price.
Every recorded price change
| Date | Non-foil |
|---|---|
| Nov 11, 2026 | $1.15 |
| Nov 10, 2026 | $1.18 |
| Nov 6, 2026 | $1.17 |
| Nov 4, 2026 | $1.19 |
| Nov 3, 2026 | $1.20 |
| Nov 2, 2026 | $1.19 |
| Oct 31, 2026 | $1.15 |
| Oct 30, 2026 | $1.18 |
| Oct 29, 2026 | $1.15 |
| Oct 23, 2026 | $1.16 |
| Oct 15, 2026 | $1.15 |
| Oct 14, 2026 | $1.12 |
| Oct 10, 2026 | $1.09 |
| Oct 9, 2026 | $1.08 |
| Oct 7, 2026 | $1.03 |
| Oct 5, 2026 | $0.99 |
| Oct 4, 2026 | $0.94 |
| Oct 2, 2026 | $0.96 |
| Oct 1, 2026 | $0.93 |
| Sep 30, 2026 | $0.95 |
| Sep 29, 2026 | $0.96 |
| Sep 28, 2026 | $0.94 |
A row is recorded only on nights the price moved, so each price held until the row above it.
Every version of Lock and Load
2 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 publishes none for some of them. Click a card's art to chart that version's price above.
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Normal
- $1.15
Extended Art
Outlaws of Thunder Junction Commander
- Normal
- $0.59
Prices from Scryfall, which tracks the TCGplayer and Cardmarket markets. They move daily and are a guide rather than a quote. Search TCGplayer for Lock and Load. It runs a name search across every version, which covers 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.
