Ob Nix CeDH👹 by PeakyOwl

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 5

DeckCheck Threat Index: 72

Deck overview

This deck is a high-speed competitive Rakdos combo engine led by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The strategy focuses on accelerating Ob Nixilis onto the battlefield on turn 1 or 2 using premium fast mana and rituals. Once the commander is established, the deck pivots into an immediate win using two-card infinite loops with Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute or Agatha's Soul Cauldron exiling Walking Ballista. Any single point of life loss suffered by an opponent triggers a self-sustaining loop of +1/+1 counters, impulse card exile, and repeated 1-damage pings that burns out the entire pod in a single turn. Backed by free redirection spells like Deflecting Swat, uncounterable tech from Hexing Squelcher, and an independent backup line in Underworld Breach, the deck threatens rapid, resilient victories while turning opposing fetchlands and draw steps into card advantage and combo triggers.

Decklist (100 cards)

  • 1 Agatha's Soul Cauldron
  • 1 Alicia Masters, Skilled Sculptor
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Arid Mesa
  • 1 Badlands
  • 1 Barbarian Ring
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Black Mage's Rod
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Bloodstained Mire
  • 1 Bolt Bend
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Chains of Mephistopheles
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Coruscation Mage
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Cursed Mirror
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Desperate Ritual
  • 1 Diabolic Intent
  • 1 Emergence Zone
  • 1 Entomb
  • 1 Fellwar Stone
  • 1 Final Fortune
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Flare of Duplication
  • 1 Flashback
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Gemstone Caverns
  • 1 Ghostfire Slice
  • 1 Grapeshot
  • 1 Grim Monolith
  • 1 Grinding Station
  • 1 Gut Shot
  • 1 Hexing Squelcher
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Kessig Flamebreather
  • 1 Lightning Bolt
  • 1 Lion's Eye Diamond
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Luxury Suite
  • 1 Mana Confluence
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Manifold Key
  • 1 Marsh Flats
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 1 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Amber
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Mox Opal
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Party Thrasher
  • 1 Polluted Delta
  • 1 Praetor's Grasp
  • 1 Prosper, Tome-Bound
  • 1 Pyretic Ritual
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Reckless Fireweaver
  • 1 Red Elemental Blast
  • 1 Redirect Lightning
  • 1 Ricochet Trap
  • 1 Ruby Medallion
  • 1 Scalding Tarn
  • 1 Scrawling Crawler
  • 1 Seething Song
  • 1 Sensei's Divining Top
  • 1 Shadow of the Goblin
  • 1 Simian Spirit Guide
  • 1 Snow-Covered Mountain
  • 1 Snow-Covered Swamp
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spire of Industry
  • 1 Starting Town
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Swamp
  • 1 Tainted Pact
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 The Last Agni Kai
  • 1 Underworld Breach
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Urza's Saga
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Vivi's Persistence
  • 1 Voltaic Key
  • 1 Walking Ballista
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune
  • 1 Wishclaw Talisman
  • 1 Wooded Foothills
  • 1 Yawgmoth's Will