Card
Ob Nixilis, Unshackled
Mana cost {4}{B}{B}
Legendary Creature — Demon 4/4
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.
No bracket restriction: playable from bracket 1. Part of 6 known combos. 3 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · M15 · #110
- Cheapest printing
- €1.54
- EDHREC salt
- 0.66
- Color identity
- Black
- Keywords
- Flying, Trample
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B2 Core — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: No restriction at this bracket
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- No Game Changer, mass land denial, extra turn, tutor or two-card combo
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
6 known combos.
- Ob Nixilis, Unshackled + Animation Module + Ashnod's Altar
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite colorless mana, Infinite death triggers
View on Commander Spellbook - Ob Nixilis, Unshackled + Animation Module + Phyrexian Altar
Produces: Infinite +1/+1 counters on a creature, Infinite death triggers, Infinite creature ETB
View on Commander Spellbook - Ob Nixilis, Unshackled + Field of Ruin + Rings of Brighthearth + Crucible of Worlds
Produces: Near-infinite lifeloss
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
The first triggered ability won't be put on the stack until after the spell or ability causing the opponent to search their library finishes resolving. Notably, if that spell or ability causes any other abilities to trigger (for example, if the opponent searched for a creature card and put it onto the battlefield), those abilities and Ob Nixilis's triggered ability will go on the stack together. The active player puts all of their abilities on the stack in any order, then each other player in turn order does the same. The last ability put onto the stack this way will be the first to resolve, and so on. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
Ob Nixilis's first triggered ability won't trigger if you search an opponent's library or if an opponent searches another player's library. - 2014-07-18 · Wizards of the Coast
If the opponent controls no creatures when the first triggered ability resolves, that player still loses 10 life.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast