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Ob Nixilis, the Fallen · B · 100 cards · 38 lands
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Bracket 3 - UpgradedCommander 1Creatures 41Instants 6Sorceries 6Artifacts 6Enchantments 1Planeswalkers 1Lands 38
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Strategy
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen leads a deck built from the cards players most often run with it, putting extra lands onto the battlefield and getting paid for each one. The list holds 16 ramp pieces, 9 pieces of targeted interaction, 2 board wipes and 9 sources of card draw, at an average mana value of 3.64.
Early: The early turns belong to ramp. Walking Atlas and the other 16 ramp pieces exist to get Ob Nixilis, the Fallen out well before its printed cost of 5 would allow.
Mid: Once the commander is down, the deck wants to be doing two things at once: advancing its own board and answering everyone else's. Dread Presence is the first answer you will usually reach for, and Braids, Arisen Nightmare keeps the hand full while you do it.
Late: Hold Mutilate for the turn the table gets ahead of you - with 2 in the deck you can afford to use one early and still have an answer later. At 3.64 average mana value the top end is genuinely expensive - land drops matter.
Win conditions: Wins off the accumulated value of extra land drops.
- Walking Atlas - Ramp
- Retreat to Hagra - Core to the plan
- Burnished Hart - Ramp
- Sword of the Animist - Ramp
- Dread Presence - Interaction
- Iridescent Vinelasher - Core to the plan
- Solemn Simulacrum - Ramp
- Wayfarer's Bauble - Ramp
~$497.37
estimated to build this deck
Commander (1)
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
Legendary Creature — Demon
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target player lose 3 life. If you do, put three +1/+1 counters on Ob Nixilis.
Creatures (41)
Walking Atlas
Artifact Creature — Construct
$1.53
{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
Burnished Hart
Artifact Creature — Elk
$0.14
{3}, Sacrifice this creature: Search your library for up to two basic land cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Dread Presence
Creature — Nightmare
$3.42
Whenever a Swamp you control enters, choose one —
• You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
• This creature deals 2 damage to any target and you gain 2 life.
Iridescent Vinelasher
Creature — Lizard Assassin
$1.19
Offspring {2} (You may pay an additional {2} as you cast this spell. If you do, when this creature enters, create a 1/1 token copy of it.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature deals 1 damage to target opponent.
Solemn Simulacrum
Artifact Creature — Golem
$0.27
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
When this creature dies, you may draw a card.
Scaretiller
Artifact Creature — Scarecrow
$0.24
Whenever this creature becomes tapped, choose one —
• You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
• Return target land card from your graveyard to the battlefield tapped.
Crypt Ghast
Creature — Spirit
$12.01
Extort (Whenever you cast a spell, you may pay {W/B}. If you do, each opponent loses 1 life and you gain that much life.)
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
Creature — Zombie
$1.08
When this creature enters, each opponent loses X life, where X is your devotion to black. You gain life equal to the life lost this way. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
PuPu UFO
Artifact Creature — Construct Alien
$0.41
Flying
{T}: You may put a land card from your hand onto the battlefield.
{3}: Until end of turn, this creature's base power becomes equal to the number of Towns you control.
Nirkana Revenant
Creature — Vampire Shade
$7.37
Whenever you tap a Swamp for mana, add an additional {B}.
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Nightmare
Creature — Nightmare Horse
$0.15
Flying (This creature can't be blocked except by creatures with flying or reach.)
Nightmare's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
Scampering Surveyor
Artifact Creature — Gnome
$0.34
When this creature enters, search your library for a basic land card or Cave card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Magus of the Coffers
Creature — Human Wizard
$4.93
{2}, {T}: Add {B} for each Swamp you control.
Bloodghast
Creature — Vampire Spirit
$0.93
This creature can't block.
This creature has haste as long as an opponent has 10 or less life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may return this card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
Guul Draz Overseer
Creature — Vampire
$0.27
Flying
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, other creatures you control get +1/+0 until end of turn. If that land is a Swamp, those creatures get +2/+0 until end of turn instead.
Canoptek Wraith
Artifact Creature — Wraith
$3.58
Wraith Form — This creature can't be blocked.
Transdimensional Scout — When this creature deals combat damage to a player, you may pay {3} and sacrifice it. If you do, choose a land you control. Then search your library for up to two basic land cards which have the same name as the chosen land, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Squelching Leeches
Creature — Leech
$0.12
Squelching Leeches's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
Caustic Crawler
Creature — Insect
$0.15
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may have target creature get -1/-1 until end of turn.
Bloodletter of Aclazotz
Creature — Vampire Demon
$34.09
Flying
If an opponent would lose life during your turn, they lose twice that much life instead. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Oblivion Sower
Creature — Eldrazi
$0.63
When you cast this spell, target opponent exiles the top four cards of their library, then you may put any number of land cards that player owns from exile onto the battlefield under your control.
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
Legendary Creature — Demon
$3.72
Flying, trample
Whenever an opponent searches their library, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice and loses 10 life.
Whenever another creature dies, put a +1/+1 counter on Ob Nixilis.
Pilgrim's Eye
Artifact Creature — Thopter
$0.06
Flying
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a basic land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
Legendary Creature — Zombie Warrior
$3.12
Korlash's power and toughness are each equal to the number of Swamps you control.
{1}{B}: Regenerate Korlash.
Grandeur — Discard another card named Korlash, Heir to Blackblade: Search your library for up to two Swamp cards, put them onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Filth
Creature — Incarnation
$4.57
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
As long as this card is in your graveyard and you control a Swamp, creatures you control have swampwalk.
Tiller Engine
Artifact Creature — Construct
$19.62
Whenever a land you control enters tapped, choose one —
• Untap that land.
• Tap target nonland permanent an opponent controls.
Braids, Arisen Nightmare
Legendary Creature — Nightmare
$4.18
At the beginning of your end step, you may sacrifice an artifact, creature, enchantment, land, or planeswalker. If you do, each opponent may sacrifice a permanent of their choice that shares a card type with it. For each opponent who doesn't, that player loses 2 life and you draw a card.
Skyclave Shade
Creature — Shade
$0.22
Kicker {2}{B}
This creature can't block.
If this creature was kicked, it enters with two +1/+1 counters on it.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, if this card is in your graveyard and it's your turn, you may cast it from your graveyard this turn.
Scrib Nibblers
Creature — Rat
$0.36
{T}: Exile the top card of target player's library. If it's a land card, you gain 1 life.
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, you may untap this creature.
Nightshade Harvester
Creature — Elf Shaman
$0.34
Whenever a land an opponent controls enters, that player loses 1 life. Put a +1/+1 counter on this creature.
Liliana's Shade
Creature — Shade
$0.13
When this creature enters, you may search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
{B}: This creature gets +1/+1 until end of turn.
Geyserfield Stalker
Creature — Elemental
$0.06
Menace (This creature can't be blocked except by two or more creatures.)
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gets +2/+2 until end of turn.
Dreadwurm
Creature — Wurm Horror
$0.11
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, this creature gains indestructible until end of turn. (Damage and effects that say "destroy" don't destroy it.)
Massacre Wurm
Creature — Phyrexian Wurm
$1.81
When this creature enters, creatures your opponents control get -2/-2 until end of turn.
Whenever a creature an opponent controls dies, that player loses 2 life.
Dauntless Scrapbot
Artifact Creature — Robot
$0.27
When this creature enters, exile each opponent's graveyard. Create a Lander token. (It's an artifact with "{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this token: Search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.")
Cat-Gator
Creature — Fish Crocodile
$0.2
Lifelink
When this creature enters, it deals damage equal to the number of Swamps you control to any target.
Vilis, Broker of Blood
Legendary Creature — Demon
$9.8
Flying
{B}, Pay 2 life: Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn.
Whenever you lose life, draw that many cards. (Damage causes loss of life.)
Sheoldred, Whispering One
Legendary Creature — Phyrexian Praetor
$18.58
Swampwalk (This creature can't be blocked as long as defending player controls a Swamp.)
At the beginning of your upkeep, return target creature card from your graveyard to the battlefield.
At the beginning of each opponent's upkeep, that player sacrifices a creature of their choice.
Phyrexian Obliterator
Creature — Phyrexian Horror
$9.72
Trample
Whenever a source deals damage to this creature, that source's controller sacrifices that many permanents of their choice.
Indulgent Tormentor
Creature — Demon
$0.28
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, draw a card unless target opponent sacrifices a creature of their choice or pays 3 life.
Bloodgift Demon
Creature — Demon
$0.46
Flying
At the beginning of your upkeep, target player draws a card and loses 1 life.
Erebos, God of the Dead
Legendary Enchantment Creature — God
$11.51
Indestructible
As long as your devotion to black is less than five, Erebos isn't a creature. (Each {B} in the mana costs of permanents you control counts toward your devotion to black.)
Your opponents can't gain life.
{1}{B}, Pay 2 life: Draw a card.
Instants (6)
Defile
Instant
$1.49
Target creature gets -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Vampiric Tutor
Instant
$51
Search your library for a card, then shuffle and put that card on top. You lose 2 life.
Stinging Study
Instant
$10.9
You draw X cards and you lose X life, where X is the mana value of a commander you own on the battlefield or in the command zone.
Village Rites
Instant
$0.28
As an additional cost to cast this spell, sacrifice a creature.
Draw two cards.
Sorceries (6)
Exsanguinate
Sorcery
$0.36
Each opponent loses X life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
Feed the Swarm
Sorcery
$0.22
Destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls. You lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
Mutilate
Sorcery
$0.79
All creatures get -1/-1 until end of turn for each Swamp you control.
Demonic Tutor
Sorcery
$62.17
Search your library for a card, put that card into your hand, then shuffle.
Artifacts (6)
Sword of the Animist
Legendary Artifact — Equipment
$2.41
Equipped creature gets +1/+1.
Whenever equipped creature attacks, you may search your library for a basic land card, put it onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Equip {2}
Wayfarer's Bauble
Artifact
$0.3
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a basic land card, put that card onto the battlefield tapped, then shuffle.
Swiftfoot Boots
Artifact — Equipment
$1.93
Equipped creature has hexproof and haste. (It can't be the target of spells or abilities your opponents control. It can attack and {T} no matter when it came under your control.)
Equip {1} ({1}: Attach to target creature you control. Equip only as a sorcery.)
Expedition Map
Artifact
$1.4
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this artifact: Search your library for a land card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
Bolas's Citadel
Legendary Artifact
$9.05
You may look at the top card of your library any time.
You may play lands and cast spells from the top of your library. If you cast a spell this way, pay life equal to its mana value rather than pay its mana cost.
{T}, Sacrifice ten nonland permanents: Each opponent loses 10 life.
Enchantments (1)
Retreat to Hagra
Enchantment
$0.54
Landfall — Whenever a land you control enters, choose one —
• Target creature gets +1/+0 and gains deathtouch until end of turn.
• Each opponent loses 1 life and you gain 1 life.
Planeswalkers (1)
Liliana of the Dark Realms
Legendary Planeswalker — Liliana
$8.94
+1: Search your library for a Swamp card, reveal it, put it into your hand, then shuffle.
−3: Target creature gets +X/+X or -X/-X until end of turn, where X is the number of Swamps you control.
−6: You get an emblem with "Swamps you control have '{T}: Add {B}{B}{B}{B}.'"
Lands (38)
Terrain Generator
Land
$1.29
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: You may put a basic land card from your hand onto the battlefield tapped.
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
Legendary Land
$55.46
Each land is a Swamp in addition to its other land types.
Rogue's Passage
Land
$0.39
{T}: Add {C}.
{4}, {T}: Target creature can't be blocked this turn.
Bojuka Bog
Land
$1.24
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, exile target player's graveyard.
{T}: Add {B}.
Cabal Stronghold
Land
$12.5
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}: Add {B} for each basic Swamp you control.
Witch's Cottage
Land — Swamp
$0.87
({T}: Add {B}.)
This land enters tapped unless you control three or more other Swamps.
When this land enters untapped, you may put target creature card from your graveyard on top of your library.
Field of Ruin
Land
$0.25
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}, Sacrifice this land: Destroy target nonbasic land an opponent controls. Each player searches their library for a basic land card, puts it onto the battlefield, then shuffles.
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
Legendary Land
$53.08
{T}: Add {C}.
{2}, {T}: Choose a color. Add an amount of mana of that color equal to your devotion to that color. (Your devotion to a color is the number of mana symbols of that color in the mana costs of permanents you control.)
Everglades
Land
$1.16
This land enters tapped.
When this land enters, sacrifice it unless you return an untapped Swamp you control to its owner's hand.
{T}: Add {C}{B}.
War Room
Land
$5.32
{T}: Add {C}.
{3}, {T}, Pay life equal to the number of colors in your commanders' color identity: Draw a card.
Basic lands: 26 Swamp
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