Rakdos Kingpin by user7009225

Format: Commander

Commander: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin

Bracket: 4

DeckCheck Threat Index: 54

Deck overview

This deck is a high-power Rakdos combo-engine list commanded by Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin. The deck focuses on accelerating its commander out on turns 2 or 3 using dense 0-to-1 CMC fast mana and rituals. Once Ob Nixilis is on the battlefield, the deck converts every instance of opponents losing exactly 1 life into +1/+1 counters and impulse card advantage. It wins decisively through a deterministic two-card infinite combo with All Will Be One (or redundant backup Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute), chaining counter placements and 1-damage pings to deal lethal damage to all three opponents simultaneously on turn 4. In addition to its combo core, the deck runs a punishing suite of draw-hate cards such as Underworld Dreams, Fate Unraveler, and Orcish Bowmasters that tax opponent actions while continuously fueling Ob Nixilis. Weaknesses include vulnerability to well-timed instant creature removal and enchantment hate.

Decklist (101 cards)

  • 1 Abrade
  • 1 All Will Be One
  • 1 Ancient Tomb
  • 1 Arcane Signet
  • 1 Beseech the Mirror
  • 1 Birgi, God of Storytelling // Harnfel, Horn of Bounty
  • 1 Blazing Firesinger // Seething Song
  • 1 Blisterspit Gremlin
  • 1 Blood Crypt
  • 1 Cabal Ritual
  • 1 Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute
  • 1 Chaos Warp
  • 1 Cheerful Osteomancer // Raise Dead
  • 1 Chrome Mox
  • 1 Command Tower
  • 1 Culling the Weak
  • 1 Dark Ritual
  • 1 Dauthi Voidwalker
  • 1 Deadly Rollick
  • 1 Defense Grid
  • 1 Deflecting Swat
  • 1 Demonic Tutor
  • 1 Dragonskull Summit
  • 1 Far Fortune, End Boss
  • 1 Fate Unraveler
  • 1 Feed the Swarm
  • 1 Fiery Confluence
  • 1 Firebrand Archer
  • 1 Foreboding Ruins
  • 1 Gamble
  • 1 Goblin Fireslinger
  • 1 Guttersnipe
  • 1 Impact Tremors
  • 1 Imperial Seal
  • 1 Iridescent Vinelasher
  • 1 Jeska's Will
  • 1 Kardur, Doomscourge
  • 1 Kederekt Parasite
  • 1 Lightning Greaves
  • 1 Lobber Crew
  • 1 Lotus Petal
  • 1 Mana Vault
  • 1 Molten Slagheap
  • 1 Mount Doom
  • 12 Mountain
  • 1 Mox Diamond
  • 1 Myriad Landscape
  • 1 Necropotence
  • 1 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
  • 1 Opposition Agent
  • 1 Orcish Bowmasters
  • 1 Pestilence
  • 1 Pyroblast
  • 1 Rakdos Charm
  • 1 Rakdos Signet
  • 1 Razorkin Needlehead
  • 1 Sawblade Scamp
  • 1 Smoldering Marsh
  • 1 Snuff Out
  • 1 Sol Ring
  • 1 Spear Spewer
  • 1 Stensia Bloodhall
  • 1 Stormfist Crusader
  • 1 Sulfurous Springs
  • 1 Sunscorched Desert
  • 13 Swamp
  • 1 Swiftfoot Boots
  • 1 Talisman of Indulgence
  • 1 Temple of Malice
  • 1 The One Ring
  • 1 Thermo-Alchemist
  • 1 Tibalt's Trickery
  • 1 Toxic Deluge
  • 1 Underworld Dreams
  • 1 Unstable Amulet
  • 1 Vampiric Tutor
  • 1 Warlock Class
  • 1 Wheel of Fortune