BlackLegendary Creature — Skeleton NobleOzox, the Clattering King
Mana value3Rank#10,625
The Commander
Ozox can't block.
When Ozox dies, create Jumblebones, a legendary 2/1 black Skeleton creature token with "Jumblebones can't block" and "When Jumblebones leaves the battlefield, return target card named Ozox, the Clattering King from your graveyard to your hand."
Guide
Gameplan
Ozox is a mono-black aristocrats and recursion engine: cheaply recast a beater that, when it dies, leaves behind Jumblebones, who in turn returns Ozox to your hand when it leaves. Abuse this near-free death loop with sacrifice outlets and 'whenever a creature dies' payoffs to drain the table, then close with a big finisher or repeated reanimation value.
Strengths
- Built-in, mana-cheap recursion that survives board wipes and removal
- Constant death triggers fuel aristocrats payoffs like Blood Artist and Zulaport Cutthroat
- Mono-black gives access to the best tutors, ramp, and reanimation in the format
- Cheap commander that comes back as two bodies, hard to permanently answer
Weaknesses
- Ozox and Jumblebones both can't block, leaving you weak to aggression
- Engine does little on its own without a sac outlet and a payoff in play
- Mono-black struggles with enchantments and resilient artifacts
- Vulnerable to graveyard hate that cuts off the loop and exile-based removal
Key Cards
- Viscera Seer — Free sac outlet to loop Ozox into Jumblebones at instant speed every turn.
- Blood Artist — Turns each Ozox/Jumblebones death into table-wide drain that wins games over time.
- Zulaport Cutthroat — A second drain effect that stacks with the loop for faster lethal.
- Pitiless Plunderer — Generates Treasure on each death, making the recursion loop net positive mana.
- Dictate of Erebos — Forces opponents to sacrifice every time Ozox or a token dies, dismantling boards.
- Grim Haruspex — Draws a card for each nontoken creature death, refilling your hand off the loop.
Upgrade Path
Add fast mana and tutors (Dark Ritual, Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor) to assemble your sac outlet plus payoff faster, and lean on free outlets like Carrion Feeder and Ashnod's Altar to loop without spending mana. Tighten the deck around a combo finish—Pitiless Plunderer plus a free sac outlet and a drainer can generate infinite tokens and damage—and include graveyard insurance and protection like Imp's Mischief to safeguard the engine.
Core Cards
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Win Conditions
- ▸Incremental Blood Artist/Zulaport drain looping Ozox each turn
- ▸Forcing the table to sacrifice their boards with Dictate of Erebos effects then attacking
- ▸Reanimating a powerful finisher fueled by the value engine
- ▸Going wide or sneaking through with an unblockable Ozox carrying buffs
Archetypes
- Aristocrats — Repeatable death triggers from Ozox and Jumblebones feed sacrifice payoffs and drain effects.
- Reanimator — Mono-black recursion synergizes with reanimating big threats off the same graveyard fuel.
- Sacrifice Value — Cheap recurring fodder powers sac-outlet engines for cards, mana, and removal.
- Stax — Edict effects like Dictate of Erebos paired with the loop grind opponents off the board.
Combos
No combos found for this commander on Commander Spellbook.
Related Commanders
Same color identity (B), by popularity.
