ping king by Mouse20

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 80

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power cEDH Rakdos turbo-combo list commanded by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The primary strategy accelerates Ob Nixilis onto the battlefield on Turn 1 or 2 using dense fast mana and positive rituals. Once Ob Nixilis is present, any instance of an opponent losing exactly 1 life triggers impulse card advantage and growth counters. The deck converts this momentum into immediate game-ending combos, primarily looping Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute with Ob Nixilis for deterministic infinite table damage, executing Dualcaster Mage with Molten Duplication for infinite hasty attackers, or assembling Underworld Breach lines. Proactive hate pieces like Orcish Bowmasters, Razorkin Needlehead, and Vexing Bauble punish opposing draw engines and free interaction, while redirection spells and blasts protect the winning turn at minimal mana overhead.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Alicia Masters, Skilled Sculptor
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Avalanche of Sector 7
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 City of Traitors
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 End the Festivities
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Gut Shot
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lava Dart
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lively Dirge
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Molten Duplication
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shizo, Death's Storehouse
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Slaughter Pact
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Stingerquill Voxmancer // Vicious Verse
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune