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Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
Legendary Creature — Demon · {2}{B}{R} · Black/Red commander
What Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Triggered ability · otherWhenever one or more opponents each lose exactly 1 life, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis. Exile the top card of your library. Until your next end step, you may play that card.
- Keyword · flyingflying
- Keyword · trampletrample
What an Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin deck needs
Plays as pinger. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- pingers that make opponents lose exactly 1 life (each one grows it and impulse-draws a card)
- evasion and protection for a growing flier
The Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 29× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
- 12× Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- 5× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 9× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 1× Answer a whole board at once
- 7× Refill your hand
- 2× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
Best cards for Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
- Impact Tremors2 mana
- Mount Doom0 mana
- Shivan Gorge0 mana
- Coruscation Mage2 mana
- Descent into Avernus3 mana
- Ramunap Ruins0 mana
- Agate Instigator2 mana
- Black Mage's Rod2 mana
Put +1/+1 counters on creatures you control, or multiply the ones already there
- Blightbelly Rat2 mana
- Scheming Aspirant2 mana
- Cacophony Scamp1 mana
- Glistening Sphere3 mana
- Walking Ballista0 mana
- Forge of Heroes0 mana
- Hangarback Walker0 mana
- Stonecoil Serpent0 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + All Will Be One8,934 decks
- Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + Agatha's Soul Cauldron + Walking Ballista5,012 decks
- Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + Prosper, Tome-Bound + Sensei's Divining Top + Reckless Fireweaver4,713 decks
- Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + Prosper, Tome-Bound + Sensei's Divining Top + Mayhem Devil4,371 decks
- Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + Casey Jones, Back Alley Brute2,783 decks
- Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin + Prosper, Tome-Bound + Sensei's Divining Top + Weftstalker Ardent1,412 decks
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