Every turn we untap with Obby on the battlefield increases our odds of winning exponentially, and we only need like 3 turns with him out to win games! Therefore it's in our opponents' best interest to kill him asap, and it's in our best interest to stop that! The fact is that this deck, while very very strong, is only strong when our commander is on the battlefield. I know that protection isn't a sexy subject when talking about deck construction - and EDHREC's userbase seems to totally forget about it - but it's particularly important in this deck. The final piece of the puzzle is protection. I also love that our commander grows so large that he's usually able to survive a Chain Reaction, making our burn-based wipes one-sided! Our removal package is a huge highlight of the deck: cards like Pestilence are all-stars in the deck because the ping-based board wipe can repeatedly clear the table of opposing creatures while also essentially reading "Pay B: draw a card and put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis," which is nuts! We can also turn all our pinging into removal with Chandra's Incinerator. That's why my lists have very low mana curves, peaking at 2mv and having nothing over 5mv. Our deck must focus on being as mana-efficient as possible: while Ob can "draw" us a lot of cards, we only have until our next end step to actually cast them, so we're going to be pinched on mana trying to cast everything. Some examples of the best pingers in our deck are Manabarbs, Spiteful Visions, Roiling Vortex, and Underworld Dreams, as they're all guaranteed to trigger Ob Nixilis multiple times per turn cycle, growing him super quick while giving us access to tons of cards to play until our next end step. The best ones in our deck either 1) reliably trigger multiple times per turn cycle or 2) are super cheap to cast, with the best being both. The heart of our deck is, of course, our pingers. Move over, Ghyrson Starn, Kelermorph, there's a new best Ping Commander in town: Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin not only grows in size as we lower our opponents' life totals 1 point at a time, but also impulse draws a card each time too! With the amount of amazing pingers in Rakdos colors, our Ob Nixilis can easily trigger 10+ times per turn cycle, drowning our opponents in value while we effortlessly 1-shot them with our giant flying trample commander! So let's load up on ping cards, play our commander, and fly straight to value town! ![]() ![]() $ 0.00 $ 0.00 The Ultimate Ping Commander! ![]() Hey friends and welcome back to Budget Commander! Do you want to play a Rakdos deck that kills the table in a hurry, while also drawing silly amounts of cards? Well I've got the budget brew for you: here's my $50 list for Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin!
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