The King Ping by user7810276

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 52

Deck overview

This deck is a high-synergy Rakdos combo and group-slug engine commanded by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The deck focuses on dealing incremental 1-damage pings to opponents through their own game actions—such as drawing cards, tapping lands, or playing creatures—using cards like Orcish Bowmasters, Razorkin Needlehead, Manabarbs, and Blood Seeker. Each ping triggers Ob Nixilis, growing him into a massive aerial threat while providing continuous impulse card draw. The primary win condition is a deterministic two-card loop between Ob Nixilis and All Will Be One, which immediately burns the entire table to zero life in a single turn. The deck supports this game plan with fast mana rituals, efficient black tutors, versatile interaction, and dedicated redirection protection like Deflecting Swat and Bolt Bend.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Big Score
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blisterspit Gremlin
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Blood Seeker
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Bonfire of the Damned
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Crypt Ghast
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Delta Bloodflies
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Dreg Recycler
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fake Your Own Death
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Feign Death
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Heartless Hidetsugu
  • 1 Imp's Mischief
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Inventors' Fair
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Laelia, the Blade Reforged
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 March of Reckless Joy
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 8 Mountain
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pain Distributor
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadowblood Ridge
  • 1 Sheoldred // The True Scriptures
  • 1 Slice from the Shadows
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Sower of Discord
  • 1 Spawn of Mayhem
  • 8 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Undying Malice
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Valakut Exploration
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Vampire Cutthroat
  • 1 Vampire Neonate
  • 1 Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Whip of Erebos
  • 1 Withering Torment
  • 1 Worldfire
  • 1 Wound Reflection