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Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

Legendary Planeswalker — Nixilis · {3}{B}{B} · Black commander

+2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. −2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life. −8: You get an emblem with "{1}{B}, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power." Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.
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What Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath actually does

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What an Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath deck needs

Plays as planeswalker. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.

The Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath deck plan

The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.

Best cards for Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

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.

Life loss that is not combat damage — each opponent loses life, repeatably

  1. Zulaport Cutthroat2 mana
  2. Leechridden Swamp0 mana
  3. Marionette Apprentice2 mana
  4. The Meathook Massacre2 mana
  5. Mirkwood Bats4 mana
  6. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana
  7. Bastion of Remembrance3 mana
  8. Bontu's Monument3 mana

Proliferate — every counter already placed is placed again

  1. Karn's Bastion0 mana
  2. Blightbelly Rat2 mana
  3. Contagion Clasp2 mana
  4. Yawgmoth, Thran Physician4 mana
  5. Staff of Compleation3 mana
  6. Sword of Truth and Justice3 mana
  7. Throne of Geth2 mana
  8. Surge Conductor3 mana

Repeat, double, protect or find planeswalkers — the engine around a planeswalker commander

  1. Surgehacker Mech4 mana
  2. Mox Amber0 mana
  3. Takenuma, Abandoned Mire0 mana
  4. Confront the Past1 mana
  5. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  6. Forge of Heroes0 mana
  7. Haven of the Spirit Dragon0 mana
  8. Plaguecrafter3 mana

Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it

  1. Defile1 mana
  2. Tragic Slip1 mana
  3. Infernal Grasp2 mana
  4. Fatal Push1 mana
  5. Bitter Triumph2 mana
  6. Black Sun's Twilight1 mana
  7. Cut Down1 mana
  8. Erebos's Intervention1 mana

Find the exact card the plan needs

  1. Demonic Tutor2 mana
  2. Diabolic Intent2 mana
  3. Vampiric Tutor1 mana
  4. Imperial Seal1 mana
  5. Demonic Consultation1 mana
  6. Grim Tutor3 mana
  7. Tainted Pact2 mana
  8. Scheming Symmetry1 mana

Answer a whole board at once

  1. Toxic Deluge3 mana
  2. Damnation4 mana
  3. Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
  4. Sickening Dreams2 mana
  5. Crypt Rats3 mana
  6. Extinction Event4 mana
  7. Endemic Plague4 mana
  8. The Meathook Massacre2 mana

Refill your hand

  1. Skullclamp1 mana
  2. Black Market Connections3 mana
  3. Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
  4. Morbid Opportunist3 mana
  5. Phyrexian Arena3 mana
  6. The One Ring4 mana
  7. Vexing Bauble1 mana
  8. Ayara, First of Locthwain3 mana

Keep a permanent you control alive through removal

  1. Lightning Greaves2 mana
  2. Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
  3. Eldrazi Monument5 mana
  4. Commander's Plate1 mana
  5. Mithril Coat3 mana
  6. Akroma's Memorial7 mana
  7. The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
  8. Brotherhood Regalia2 mana

Get ahead on mana

  1. Sol Ring1 mana
  2. Palladium Myr3 mana
  3. Worn Powerstone3 mana
  4. Chrome Mox0 mana
  5. Everflowing Chalice0 mana
  6. Mox Diamond0 mana
  7. Mana Vault1 mana
  8. Wayfarer's Bauble1 mana

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