Rakdos by Rogue_Highlander

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

This is a high-power Rakdos turbo-combo list helmed by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The deck weaponizes cheap "exactly 1 life" pings from creatures like Firebrand Archer, Kessig Flamebreather, Reckless Fireweaver, and Mayhem Devil to grow Ob while exiling cards for free cast windows. Parallel to the ping engine sits a classic cEDH black-red package: dense fast mana and rituals feed Ad Nauseam, Underworld Breach storm, Demonic Consultation/Tainted Pact tutors, and Yawgmoth's Will turns. Primary wins are storm kills via Grapeshot, infinite Dualcaster loops, and Walking Ballista drains; Ob himself becomes a massive trampling threat or value engine along the way. The list is extremely low-curve (AMV ~1.86), tutor-dense, and built to end games before fair decks stabilize.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Crystal Vein
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Consultation
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lava Dart
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 2 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rain of Filth
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shantotto's Coercion
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Thrum of the Vestige
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unseat the Usurper
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will
  • 1 Zidane Tribal