Ob Nixilis by PePepto

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This deck is a high-velocity Rakdos Group Slug and Combo engine commanded by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The strategy revolves around deploying cheap, asymmetric pingers such as Razorkin Needlehead, Kederekt Parasite, and Thermo-Alchemist alongside punishing continuous effects like Manabarbs and Spiteful Visions. Whenever an opponent loses exactly 1 life, Ob Nixilis grows and provides impulse card advantage, quickly churning through the library. The primary win condition is an infinite two-card combo with All Will Be One, which loops +1/+1 counters and 1-damage pings to wipe out all opponents simultaneously. In the absence of the combo, the deck threatens lethal commander damage via an evasive, rapidly growing demon backed by relentless group slug attrition and storm-style turns powered by Bolas's Citadel and Birgi, God of Storytelling.

Decklist (100 cards)

• 1 All Will Be One
• 1 Arcane Signet
• 1 Barbflare Gremlin
• 1 Bedevil
• 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
• 1 Black Mage's Rod
• 1 Black Waltz No. 3
• 1 Blackcleave Cliffs
• 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
• 1 Blood Crypt
• 1 Bloodstained Mire
• 1 Bolas's Citadel
• 1 Chaos Warp
• 1 Charred Foyer // Warped Space
• 1 Circle of Power
• 1 Command Tower
• 1 Coruscation Mage
• 1 Crypt Ghast
• 1 Culling the Weak
• 1 Dark Ritual
• 1 Dragonskull Summit
• 1 Fate Unraveler
• 1 Feed the Swarm
• 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
• 1 Fellwar Stone
• 1 Flashback
• 1 Galvanic Discharge
• 1 Gleeful Arsonist
• 1 Go for the Throat
• 1 Grab the Prize
• 1 Grapeshot
• 1 Graven Cairns
• 1 Haunted Ridge
• 1 Hexing Squelcher
• 1 Hoarding Broodlord
• 1 Imp's Mischief
• 1 Impact Tremors
• 1 Ingris Stingerquill
• 1 Kederekt Parasite
• 1 Leechridden Swamp
• 1 Light Up the Stage
• 1 Lightning Greaves
• 1 Mana Confluence
• 1 Mana Geyser
• 1 Manabarbs
• 1 Mask of Griselbrand
• 1 Mind Stone
• 1 Mithril Coat
• 1 Mizzix's Mastery
• 1 Mount Doom
• 6 Mountain
• 1 Night's Whisper
• 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
• 1 Opal Palace
• 1 Pestilence
• 1 Professional Face-Breaker
• 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
• 1 Rakdos Charm
• 1 Rakdos Signet
• 1 Raphael, Ninja Destroyer
• 1 Razorkin Needlehead
• 1 Redirect Lightning
• 1 Rhystic Tutor
• 1 Scorch Spitter
• 1 Scrawling Crawler
• 1 Shadowblood Ridge
• 1 Shivan Gorge
• 1 Smoldering Marsh
• 2 Snow-Covered Mountain
• 1 Sol Ring
• 1 Spinerock Knoll
• 1 Spiteful Visions
• 1 Stormfist Crusader
• 9 Swamp
• 1 Séance Board
• 1 Tainted Peak
• 1 Talisman of Indulgence
• 1 The Last Agni Kai
• 1 Theater of Horrors
• 1 Thermo-Alchemist
• 1 Valakut Awakening // Valakut Stoneforge
• 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
• 1 Vivi's Persistence
• 1 Witch's Clinic
• 1 Withering Torment
• 1 Zero Point Ballad