Ob Nixilis Reignited
Legendary Planeswalker — Nixilis
+1: You draw a card and you lose 1 life.
−3: Destroy target creature.
−8: Target opponent gets an emblem with "Whenever a player draws a card, you lose 2 life."
- CMC
- 5
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- mythic
- Set
- Commander 2021
- Price
- $0.36
- EDHREC rank
- #4076
Ob Nixilis Reignited lands on five mana and immediately draws a card, kills a creature, or starts threatening an emblem — three meaningful axes of pressure on a single permanent. Five mana is the ceiling of what most Commander decks want to spend on a planeswalker without immediate protection, but the flexibility makes the cost earn out. Carth the Lion pushes it over the line by adding a loyalty counter on entry and letting you tick up faster than opponents can answer.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Carth the Lion
Carth the Lion is the definitive home: his static ability adds an extra loyalty counter whenever Ob Nixilis Reignited enters or activates, compressing the path to the emblem from several turns to one or two while also tutoring for it directly off Carth's death trigger.
Winter, Cynical Opportunist
Winter, Cynical Opportunist wants planeswalkers that generate value without needing protection, and Ob Nixilis Reignited's draw-a-card ability refills the hand each turn while Winter's triggered ability creates Clues on opponents' turns — both halves reward slowing the game down.
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
Sheoldred, the Apocalypse pairs with Ob Nixilis Reignited because every card drawn off the +1 triggers Sheoldred's drain, turning a simple card-draw activation into incremental life loss that compounds across the table.
Kardur, Doomscourge
Kardur, Doomscourge runs a goad-heavy plan that keeps opponents swinging at each other, and Ob Nixilis Reignited's -3 removal ability cleans up whatever survives combat without requiring Kardur's controller to attack into an unfavorable board.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | legal |
| pioneer | legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
In Commander, Ob Nixilis Reignited occupies a reliable role as a five-mana draw engine and spot removal piece in black decks that need planeswalker density — it's not a finisher, but it pulls weight without demanding support. In Pioneer and Modern, five mana is a steep ask in 60-card formats where games end faster and planeswalkers need immediate board impact to survive; it sees almost no competitive play there. Legacy and Vintage are similarly hostile to a five-mana spell with no protection built in — the card is legal but effectively invisible in those formats. Oathbreaker is the one non-Commander 1v1 context where Ob Nixilis Reignited has a real case, since the 20-life starting total and planeswalker-as-commander structure make its emblem a genuine threat to close out the game.
Key Combos
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Price Context
Current price
$0.36 bulk tier
At $0.36, Ob Nixilis Reignited is deep bulk — the kind of card you pick up as a throw-in or grab from a dollar box without thinking twice. Supply is high enough from multiple printings that the price is unlikely to move in either direction, so this is a pure utility pickup rather than anything to chase.
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Sources
Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.