Ob Nixilis, the Fallen

Gameplan

Play extra lands to drain opponents 3 life at a time while Ob Nixilis snowballs into a massive, evasive threat. You want fetch lands, land-into-play effects, and ways to replay lands so each landfall trigger both grows your commander and burns a chosen player. Close games with commander damage or by draining the whole table to death.

Key Cards

• Rampaging Baloths — Doubles as a landfall payoff, but more importantly signals the land-matters package that fuels Ob Nixilis's drain.
• Crucible of Worlds — Replays fetch lands and sacrificed lands every turn for repeatable triggers.
• Strands of Night — Sacrifice a swamp to recur creatures—and combined with land recursion it loops landfall drains.
• Lotus Field — Bouncing or recurring lands stacks multiple landfall triggers in a single turn.
• Whip of Erebos — Lifelink turns commander swings into life swings and the indestructibility protects your engine.
• Strip Mine — With land recursion it gives a repeatable landfall trigger while disrupting opponents.

Upgrade Path

Add explosive land enablers—Azusa, Lost but Seeking, Exploration, Burgeoning, and a full fetch-land suite with Crucible of Worlds or Ramunap Excavator—to chain multiple drains per turn. Give him reliable evasion and protection (Whispersilk Cloak, Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots) so the counters convert to lethal commander damage, and back it up with strong tutors (Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor) and a Torment of Hailfire finisher. Combo finishes like a land-bounce loop with Retreat to Hagra or Lotus Field can turn landfall into an instant kill.