Ob Nixilis EDH Deck

Here's a monoblack Elder Dragon Highlander deck featuring Ob Nixilis, the Fallen as the deck's commander.

There are a number of other legendary creatures in the deck, so you can pick and choose which one you want as your commander. I tend to stick with ObNoxious, I mean, Ob Nixilis as my commander because of some of the landfetch cards I have in the deck.

For those unfamiliar with the EDH format, the deck is exactly 100 cards with one of them being the commander. The commander must be a legendary creature. In addition, you can only have one copy of each card (excluding basic lands).

The format is a great deal of fun and is often played as a multiplayer format. I highly suggest checking it out.



Anyway, on with the list!

Commander: Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Lands (39)

• 15x Swamp
• 14x Snow-Covered Swamp (used mainly to help negate Tainted Pact)
• Bad River (better landfetch cards could replace this)
• Cabal Coffers
• Crypt of Agadeem
• Ghost Quarter
• Ghost Town
• Spawning Pool
• Strip Mine
• Terminal Moraine
• Terramorphic Expanse
• Thawing Glaciers

Not much to say about the lands except for their interaction with Ob Nixilis. Ghost Town and Thawing Glaciers does a lot to improve on the commander's +1/+1 tokens, so use them frequently. In a pinch, use Ghost Quarter to destroy one of your own lands just to get another Swamp into play.

Creatures (22)

• Avatar of Woe
• Bane of the Living
• Big Game Hunter
• Blood Seeker
• Bone Shredder
• Doomed Necromancer
• Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
• Dread
• Faceless Butcher
• Gatekeeper of Malakir
• Kagemaro, First to Suffer
• Korlash, Heir to Blackblade
• Laquatus's Champion
• Maga, Traitor to Mortals
• Mindslicer
• Mirri the Cursed
• Myojin of Night's Reach
• Nekrataal
• Nightmare
• Soot Imp
• Vampire Nighthawk
• Withered Wretch

As you can see, the creature list is a little on the thin side - most of them fall into several categories of either removal, retrieval, or heavy hitter.

Spells (20)

• Barter in Blood
• Beseech the Queen
• Consume Spirit
• Damnation
• Dark Banishing
• Decree of Pain
• Demonic Tutor
• Diabolic Edict
• Diabolic Intent
• Drain Life
• Innocent Blood
• Mutilate
• Plague Wind
• Rise from the Grave
• Sadistic Sacrament
• Stir the Grave
• Stitch Together
• Tainted Pact
• Vampiric Tutor
• Zombify

Most of the spells listed fall into the removal or retrieval categories, and you'll notice a good deal of creature kill. This is to ensure your heavy hitters have a relatively clean board to attack on.

Other Permanents (19)

• Amulet of Unmaking
• Animate Dead
• Crucible of Worlds
• Curse of Wizardry
• Grave Pact
• Lightning Greaves
• Liliana Vess
• Mana Vault
• Necromancy
• Necropotence
• Nevinyrral's Disk
• Nightmare Lash
• Oversold Cemetery
• Phyrexian Arena
• Sensei's Divining Top
• Skullclamp
• Sol Ring
• Zuran Orb

Again we see more removal and retrieval, as well as some mana generation and utility cards. Lightning Greaves is a great artifact to equip on the commander, making him untargetable and granting haste.

Sideboard (10)

• Crawlspace
• Deathgrip
• Emissary of Despair
• Engineered Plague
• Infernal Darkness
• Gate to Phyrexia
• Perish
• Stench of Evil
• Trinisphere
• Yawgmoth's Edict

The sideboard is meant to penalize green and/or white decks, and has several useful cards for dealing with artifact-heavy decks, which black usually has a problem combating.