Nixilis by Borhammer

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 3

DeckCheck Threat Index: 41

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos Group Slug engine commanded by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The strategy revolves around weaponizing exact 1-damage and 1-life-loss triggers across all opponents. By deploying low-cost pingers, draw punishers, and land taxes like Razorkin Needlehead, Underworld Dreams, Roiling Vortex, and Manabarbs, every standard game action taken by opponents triggers Ob Nixilis. Each instance of 1 life loss puts a +1/+1 counter on the commander and exiles the top card of the library to be played until the next end step. This turns opponent turns into massive card-advantage engines for the pilot while transforming Ob Nixilis into a lethal flying, trampling threat. The deck converts this momentum into rapid game wins via explosive damage multipliers like Chandra's Ignition, Temur Battle Rage, Pestilence, or Reforge the Soul, while maintaining an extensive suite of low-cost protective spells to shield the commander from removal.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alesha's Legacy
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Armor of Shadows
  • 1 Barbed Wire
  • 1 Bedevil
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blessing of Leeches
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Burning Earth
  • 1 Chain Reaction
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Charcoal Diamond
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Cryptolith Fragment // Aurora of Emrakul
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fire Diamond
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kaya's Ghostform
  • 1 Kazuul's Fury // Kazuul's Cliffs
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Mana Geyser
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Mind Stone
  • 14 Mountain
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Orcish Medicine
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Piranha Marsh
  • 1 Professor's Warning
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Return the Favor
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Rush of Vitality
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soot Imp
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 14 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tainted Strike
  • 1 Temur Battle Rage
  • 1 Terminate
  • 1 Theater of Horrors
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Victimize
  • 1 Wild-Magic Sorcerer
  • 1 Wyll's Reversal