Bobby Nixilis, Captive King of the Hill by Frownbear

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin is the deck's engine and primary win condition: every one-life ping grows him, exiles fuel, and lets the deck chain spells. Secondary paths are an All Will Be One infinite loop, a Peer into the Abyss/Underworld Dreams draw-kill, and storm Grapeshot off rituals. The commander's role is to turn pinger triggers into card advantage and eventually serve as the counter-generating core of the All Will Be One loop. There is no hidden commander; Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar only makes commander damage reach the whole table. The deck aggressively converts life into mana and pings into spells, aiming for a turn five or six combo kill or a pinger/storm grind.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Chandra's Ignition
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Electrostatic Field
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Gut Shot
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Jagged Barrens
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kediss, Emberclaw Familiar
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Lava Dart
  • 1 Leechridden Swamp
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 11 Mountain
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Rakdos Carnarium
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 5 Swamp
  • 1 Tablet of Discovery
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 The Destined Black Mage
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Treasonous Ogre
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unexpected Windfall
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Will of the Jeskai
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman