On nix by colemartin

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 49

Deck overview

This Rakdos deck is commanded by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin and centers on turning exact 1-life loss triggers into overwhelming card advantage, lethal commander growth, and deterministic combo kills. The deck utilizes a dense suite of group slug pieces such as Orcish Bowmasters, Razorkin Needlehead, Roiling Vortex, and Underworld Dreams to trigger Ob Nixilis multiple times per turn cycle. This rapid impulse card flow fuels storm-like turns and digs for the primary win condition: All Will Be One. Once deployed, any 1-damage instance triggers an infinite loop between Ob Nixilis and the enchantment, dealing lethal damage to the entire table in a single turn. Backed by efficient redirection spells like Bolt Bend, anti-blue countermagic, and disruptive stax pieces like Opposition Agent and Manabarbs, the deck maintains steady pressure while assembling a compact, decisive finish.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blasphemous Act
  • 1 Blazemire Verge
  • 1 Blightstep Pathway // Searstep Pathway
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Burning Inquiry
  • 1 Chandra, Dressed to Kill
  • 1 City of Brass
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Creeping Bloodsucker
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Delayed Blast Fireball
  • 1 Dismember
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Exotic Orchard
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fell the Profane // Fell Mire
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Florian, Voldaren Scion
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Gleeful Arsonist
  • 1 Graven Cairns
  • 1 Haunted Ridge
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Light Up the Stage
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Manabarbs
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 3 Mountain
  • 1 Nightshade Harvester
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Peer into the Abyss
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prismatic Vista
  • 1 Professional Face-Breaker
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Raucous Theater
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Reckless Handling
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Reforge the Soul
  • 1 Ricochet Trap
  • 1 Roiling Vortex
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Shatterskull Smashing // Shatterskull, the Hammer Pass
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
  • 1 Soot Imp
  • 1 Spiteful Visions
  • 1 Storm-Kiln Artist
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Untimely Malfunction
  • 1 Urabrask // The Great Work
  • 1 Valgavoth, Harrower of Souls
  • 1 Verdant Catacombs
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Winds of Change
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Withering Boon
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Wrenn's Resolve