Commander 1
Other 99
Strategy notes
Loam and Gloom is a Grixis (blue-black-red) reanimator-spellslinger Commander deck, likely built around Kess, Dissident Mage. Its main plan is to dump big creatures like Razaketh, the Foulblooded into the graveyard with cards such as Entomb, Buried Alive, Vile Entomber, Faithless Looting, and Windfall, then bring them back cheaply with Reanimate, Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead, Persist, Victimize, and Exhume.
Kess adds strong value by recasting tutors, cantrips, interaction, and reanimation spells from the graveyard, giving the deck a resilient midgame. The list supports this with lots of cheap card selection and protection like Brainstorm, Ponder, Consider, Counterspell, Swan Song, and Negate, plus efficient removal.
The deck usually wins by landing an early reanimation target and snowballing value, often using Razaketh to tutor through the deck and assemble overwhelming advantage, or by leveraging Living Death as a mass reanimation finisher.
Written by the Kraken's AI from this decklist.
