The KingPing by 0zempika

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 4

Deck overview

Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin helms an aggressive Rakdos combo-burn deck focused on weaponizing exact one-life loss triggers. Deploying cheap incremental pingers like Orcish Bowmasters, Razorkin Needlehead, and Creeping Bloodsucker feeds Ob Nixilis constant +1/+1 counters and massive impulse card advantage. The deck leverages this velocity to assemble game-ending combos rapidly. Its premier win condition is All Will Be One, which creates an immediate deterministic damage loop with the commander to eliminate the entire table. Secondary win lines include Heartless Hidetsugu paired with Wound Reflection, Worldfire resets with floating mana or impulse pools, and heavy burn enabled by Birgi and Prosper.

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