Ob Nixilis, Reignited: Official Thread

SeditiousCanary

Nephandi wrote:

Behold the Beyond(discard entire hand draw 6 cards)

Lost Legacy seems good here too at 12 mana, but you don't get the 6 mana for each card you draw, and is clearly more discard control/oriented.

wereotter

SeditiousCanary wrote:

Nephandi wrote:

Behold the Beyond(discard entire hand draw 6 cards)

Lost Legacy seems good here too at 12 mana, but you don't get the 6 mana for each card you draw, and is clearly more discard control/oriented.

Lost Legacy does it to your opponent, not to you, so you don't want to have it give the 6 mana. I've had a lot of fun so far with it in Ob Nixilis. The AI often puts the highest costed card in slot 1 so you tend to have time to chain this spell if you've got more than one, which is pretty much game over.

Just picked up Ob Nixilis today so experience is limited, but both that and Bombat Courrier have been really powerful cards once you get his final ability support.

Grenade110

My Ob Nixilis deck is based on ramping into his third ability but it goes an unconventional route being built around Kothophed. I currently am lacking a card or two that I know will improve it.

Creatures: (3)
Kothophed, Soul Hoarder
Yaheeni, Undying Partisan*
Gnarlroot Trapper

Spells: (4)
Altar's Reap
Bone Splinters
Grip of Desolation
Rush of Vitality

Supports: (3)
Oath of Liliana*
Graf Harvest
Brawler's Plate

*Currently not owned.

In Yaheeni's place I have Malakir Cullblade and in Oath's place I have Call the Bloodline for until I get them.

I may end up replacing Brawler's Plate once I have both cards if I also get another way to sacrifice a creature to trigger Yaheeni. I do have Fleshbag and may run him.

Foznertep

My newest edition of the critterless I-can-win deck:

Supports:
Aetherflux Reservoir
Brain in a Jar
Tamiyo's Journal

Spells:
Alchemist's Vial
Aligned Hedon Network
Grip of Desolation
Tidy Conclusion
Transgress the Mind
Unholy Hunger
Whispers of Emrakul

This works most of the time unless you get really unlucky or run into a ridiculously OP deck, but I am only in Gold Tier with Black.
AR, UH and TC turn this into a viable life gain deck as well.

Tilwin90

Finally got Ob Nixilis, so I decided to give a creatureless control deck a try. This is what I ended up with.

Spells (4)
Infinite Obliteration
Ruinous Path
To the Slaughter
Lost Legacy

Supports (6)
Deadlock Trap
Dynavolt Tower
Underhanded Designs
Midnight Oil
Tamiyo's Journal
Shrine of the Forsaken Gods

Any suggestions or recommendations are more than welcome.

Plans to extend:
- Replace Midnight Oil with Behold the Beyond

Note: I tried Anguished Unmaking in place of Underhanded Designs. It was terrible (way too expensive and the lifeloss hurts a lot).

Doomstat

Accidentally bought Ob yesterday thanks to my cat stepping on my phone. So I maxed him out and built him for standard.

Supports: 2
Alhammarret's Archive (mythic)
Sunset Pyramid (uncommon)

Spells: 8
Lost Legacy (rare)
Unholy Hunger (rare)
Liliana's Defeat (uncommon)
Razaketh's Rite (uncommon)
Unlicensed Disintegration (uncommon)
Desert of the Glorified (common)
Final Reward (common)
Live Fast (common)

Works well without Alhammarret's Archive and Lost Legacy, but these two cards end matches the turn I use his ultimate. I now understand how busted he can be when used properly, and can't wait to try him in legacy. 

While I have considered playing Midnight oil, I think it may hurt more than help should I not go off before it discards my hand. I know I can fill it up with my abilities/draw cards, but it seems like a wasted card in this deck. 

Foznertep

Recently, I enjoyed using Faith of the Devoted and some cycling. With his Ult on the board, each cycled card deals 13 damage and heals 5. Add a Lost Legacy or two and any opponent is more or less done for. 

BigSwifty

Very cool walker and it's nice to see something other than zombies in mono black, but dag-gum those are some poor mana bonuses for a non intro walker. Would it really have killed things to make the black +4, or increase either blue or black to +2? I mean, come on.....

Gargoyle

Seems like a build-around. The first and second abilities could be used for a control build I guess but where's the fun in that?

There are a few high end options to make his third ability deadly but I think if you're on a budget and don't have a huge collection then Darkblade Agent is worth a look; there are a couple Surveil draw spells which then repeat draw with Agent. 

Also has the dubious honour of being the only place for Howling Golem. "Bet you thought I was being equitable by letting you draw... Guess again!"

Important to remember that it's every *whenever* a player draws, as opposed to burning per card drawn.