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Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 5

Deck overview

Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin heads a turbo-Rakdos exile-storm deck. The primary plan is to resolve Ob early with rituals and fast mana, then use noncreature-spell pingers like Firebrand Archer to make every opponent lose exactly 1 life. Each trigger grows Ob and exiles three top cards, creating a self-refueling chain of spells cast from exile. Secondary lines use Birgi // Harnfel for mana and card advantage, Underworld Breach to recast rituals, and Grapeshot or a giant Fling as finishers. No double-faced commander exists; Birgi and Urabrask // The Great Work function as hidden engines. The deck can win around turn three with a good but not unusual draw.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Ad Nauseam
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arena of Glory
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bojuka Bog
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Cruel Tutor
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Fling
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Grim Tutor
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Hex Magic
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 5 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Multiversal Passage
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Pinnacle Monk // Mystic Peak
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reanimate
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Shivan Gorge
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Tainted Peak
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vexing Bauble
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wooded Foothills