[[CEDH]] Ob Nixilis, king of the ping by joeym8367

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 80

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power cEDH Rakdos turbo-midrange list commanded by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. It leverages explosive fast mana and tutors to quickly assemble game-winning combinations or establish a dominant card-advantage engine. The primary win condition pairs Ob Nixilis with All Will Be One, creating a self-sustaining loop of +1/+1 counters and 1-damage pings that burns the entire table in a single turn. Backup lines feature the classic Dualcaster Mage and Twinflame infinite token assault, as well as deterministic Underworld Breach loops. The deck maintains substantial interactive parity through free Commander spells like Deflecting Swat and Deadly Rollick, along with anti-blue counterspells and efficient removal. Pungent punishers such as Opposition Agent, Orcish Bowmasters, and Razorkin Needlehead exploit common Commander actions like fetching and drawing cards, constantly supplying impulse draw triggers to fuel Ob Nixilis while taxing opponents' life totals into lethal range.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dualcaster Mage
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Fire Covenant
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Goblin Engineer
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Imperial Recruiter
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Jeweled Amulet
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 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 Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Ricochet Trap
  • 1 Rite of Flame
  • 1 Saw in Half
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Soot Imp
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Twinflame
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will