Negative, no Positive by aldy1525

Format: Commander

Commander: Loot, the Anomaly

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 38

Deck overview

This deck leverages Loot, the Anomaly to convert negative power into massive combat damage. Mono-black ramp spells and cheap utility cards accelerate Loot onto the battlefield on Turn 3. The deck then applies continuous power debuffs through auras, instant-speed threshold sacrifices, and combat modifiers. Because Loot attacks with negative power, he breaks parity on symmetric stax pieces like Ensnaring Bridge, Meekstone, and Noetic Scales, attacking freely while locking down opposing attackers. Evasion lands and artifacts ensure combat damage connects directly, enabling lethal commander damage or infect knockouts starting on Turn 5. Recursive creatures and token engines feed card draw through Skullclamp and provide sacrificial fodder for Loot's threshold ability. If opponents remove Loot, the deck recovers using robust mana engines and graveyard recursion, or pivots to alternative win conditions such as Gray Merchant of Asphodel loops and wide Zombie armies.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Access Tunnel
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Archenemy's Charm
  • 1 Army of the Damned
  • 1 Belbe's Armor
  • 1 Bitterbloom Bearer
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Pet
  • 1 Bloodghast
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bubbling Muck
  • 1 Buried Alive
  • 1 Buried Ruin
  • 1 Cabal Coffers
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Cabal Stronghold
  • 1 Cabal Trainee
  • 1 Clinging Darkness
  • 1 Command Beacon
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Darkblast
  • 1 Darklight Phoenix
  • 1 Darkness
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Despondency
  • 1 Ensnaring Bridge
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Escape Tunnel
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fireshrieker
  • 1 Garruk, Veiled Butcher
  • 1 Gift of Doom
  • 1 Grave Researcher // Reanimate
  • 1 Gravecrawler
  • 1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
  • 1 Greel's Caress
  • 1 Inquisitor's Flail
  • 1 Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia
  • 1 Jet Medallion
  • 1 Key to the City
  • 1 Loot, the Anomaly
  • 1 Meekstone
  • 1 Mithril Coat
  • 1 Mortuary Mire
  • 1 Mourning
  • 1 My Precious // Allure of Power
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Nether Traitor
  • 1 Night's Whisper
  • 1 Noetic Scales
  • 1 Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
  • 1 Ogre Slumlord
  • 1 Ophiomancer
  • 1 Phyresis
  • 1 Phyrexian Tower
  • 1 Pitiless Plunderer
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Proft, Sinister Mastermind
  • 1 Ray of Enfeeblement
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reassembling Skeleton
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Sign in Blood
  • 1 Skeleton Key
  • 1 Skullclamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Solemn Simulacrum
  • 1 Stitcher's Supplier
  • 10 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Szat's Will
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
  • 1 The Soul Stone
  • 1 Thespian's Stage
  • 1 Thomil, the Destroyer
  • 1 Torment
  • 1 Tortured Existence
  • 1 Unearth
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Vampiric Link
  • 1 Vesuva
  • 1 War Room
  • 1 Witch's Clinic
  • 1 Withering Torment