Ob Nixilis Ping

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 2

DeckCheck Threat Index: 30

Deck overview

This deck is a Rakdos group-slug and Voltron strategy commanded by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The game plan revolves around deploying low-cost permanents that deal exactly 1 damage to opponents, such as Impact Tremors, Thermo-Alchemist, and Underworld Dreams. Each time an opponent loses exactly 1 life, Ob Nixilis gains a +1/+1 counter and exiles the top card of your library to play until your next end step. This turns passive burn into rapid stat growth and continuous card advantage. The deck aims to eliminate opponents through a combination of heavy flying commander damage and steady noncombat life loss. While it features high redundancy among ping enablers, it relies on natural land drops due to minimal ramp and must defend Ob Nixilis over multiple turns to eliminate all three opponents.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Alesha's Legacy
  • 1 Angry Rabble
  • 1 Apocalypse Demon
  • 1 Azula Always Lies
  • 1 Bastion of Remembrance
  • 1 Bedeck // Bedazzle
  • 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
  • 1 Bloodfell Caves
  • 1 Bontu's Monument
  • 1 Carnival // Carnage
  • 1 Chandra's Magmutt
  • 1 Cliffhaven Kitesail
  • 1 Cryptborn Horror
  • 1 Cult Guildmage
  • 1 Dark Endurance
  • 1 Deadly Precision
  • 1 Delta Bloodflies
  • 1 Demonic Gifts
  • 1 Demonspine Whip
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fire Nation Salvagers
  • 1 Foolish Fate
  • 1 Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton
  • 1 Hooded Blightfang
  • 1 Ill-Gotten Inheritance
  • 1 Immersturm Predator
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Invasion of Azgol // Ashen Reaper
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lightning-Rig Crew
  • 1 Master of Barbs
  • 1 Mayhem Devil
  • 1 Merciless Enforcers
  • 1 Minion's Return
  • 15 Mountain
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Adversary
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
  • 1 Olivia's Attendants
  • 1 Opal Palace
  • 1 Pull from the Grave
  • 1 Rakdos, Lord of Riots
  • 1 Raphael, Fiendish Savior
  • 1 Revenant
  • 1 Rogue's Passage
  • 1 Screeching Soulbreaker
  • 1 Shocking Sharpshooter
  • 1 Shriek, Treblemaker
  • 1 Sinister Waltz
  • 1 Skarrgan Hellkite
  • 1 Skymarch Bloodletter
  • 1 Slaughter-Priest of Mogis
  • 1 Smoke Spirits' Aid
  • 1 Spitfire Lagac
  • 1 Start from Scratch
  • 1 Stingerquill Voxmancer // Vicious Verse
  • 15 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Tectonic Hazard
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Thriving Moor
  • 1 Thunderdrum Soloist
  • 1 Tibalt, Rakish Instigator
  • 1 Tormentor's Helm
  • 1 Tramway Station
  • 1 Unbreakable Bond
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Vindictive Warden
  • 1 Wake to Slaughter
  • 1 Weftstalker Ardent