New Untitled Deck by Swiftliest

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 60

Deck overview

This deck is an explosive Rakdos combo and attrition strategy commanded by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The deck leverages a dense package of low-mana pingers—such as Orcish Bowmasters, Kessig Flamebreather, Coruscation Mage, and Agate Instigator—to trigger Ob Nixilis whenever an opponent loses exactly 1 life. Each trigger grows the Demon while exiling cards that provide continuous card advantage. The primary win condition is a compact two-card infinite combo with All Will Be One: placing a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis triggers the enchantment to deal 1 damage to an opponent, which loops continuously to drain the entire table on Turn 4 with zero response cycles. Backed by fast mana rituals, free interaction like Deflecting Swat and Deadly Rollick, tax pieces like Manabarbs, and a secondary win line via Dualcaster Mage and Saw in Half, the deck rapidly pivots between grinding oppressive card velocity and executing instant-speed game-winning combos.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agate Instigator
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Artist
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Electro, Assaulting Battery
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Fire Nation Palace
  • 1 Flamekin Village
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Ghostfire Slice
  • 1 Great Furnace
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Infantry Shield
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Knuckles the Echidna
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lindblum, Industrial Regency // Mage Siege
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Roaming Throne
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Shocking Sharpshooter
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Strike It Rich
  • 2 Swamp
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vault of Whispers
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wooded Foothills