Card
Mister Negative
Mana cost {5}{W}{B}
Legendary Creature — Human Villain 5/5
Vigilance, lifelink Darkforce Inversion — When Mister Negative enters, you may exchange life totals with target opponent. If you lost life this way, draw that many cards.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 114 known combos. 2 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Mythic · SPM · #135
- Cheapest printing
- €1.27
- EDHREC salt
- 0.82
- Color identity
- Black, White
- Keywords
- Lifelink, Vigilance
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
114 known combos.
- Mister Negative + Wall of Blood + Phyrexian Unlife
Produces: Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Mister Negative + Wall of Blood + Platinum Angel
Produces: Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook - Mister Negative + Wall of Blood + Pact Weapon
Produces: Near-infinite lifeloss for target opponent, Target opponent loses the game
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
If a player can't gain life, that player can't exchange life totals with a player with a higher life total. Similarly, a player who can't lose life can't exchange life totals with a player with a lower life total. - 2025-09-19 · Wizards of the Coast
When life totals are exchanged, each player gains or loses the amount of life necessary to equal the other player's life total. For example, if one player has 10 life and the other has 17 life, the first player gains 7 life and the other one loses 7 life. Replacement effects may modify these gains and losses, and triggered abilities may trigger on them.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast