ob nixilis, captive kingpin (Bracket 4+) by chollaway

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 61

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck is an optimized combo and group slug strategy led by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The deck leverages cheap, continuous 1-damage ping triggers from cards like Orcish Bowmasters, Razorkin Needlehead, and Kessig Flamebreather to turn normal opponent actions into massive impulse-draw card advantage and +1/+1 counters. This card velocity quickly digs into black tutors and rituals to assemble its primary win condition: All Will Be One. Once deployed alongside Ob Nixilis, any single point of damage creates a self-sustaining loop that exiles the library and deals infinite damage across the table. Backed by oppressive stax pieces like Opposition Agent and Vexing Bauble, alongside free protection spells like Deflecting Swat and Deadly Rollick, the deck disrupts opposing plans while racing toward a consistent Turn 4 same-turn kill.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Disciple of the Vault
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fabled Passage
  • 1 Faithless Looting
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Marionette Apprentice
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Passionate Archaeologist
  • 1 Powerbalance
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Rampaging Ferocidon
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reflecting Pool
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Smoke
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spikefield Hazard // Spikefield Cave
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 6 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vandalblast
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Vicious Rumors
  • 1 Walking Ballista