Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath (Etched) (CMM)

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath

Casting Cost: {3}{B}{B}

Card Type: Legendary Planeswalker - Nixilis

Loyalty: 3

Card Text:

• +2: Each opponent loses 1 life. You gain life equal to the life lost this way.
• -2: Create a 5/5 black Demon creature token with flying. You lose 2 life.
• -8: You get an emblem with "1B, Sacrifice a creature: You gain X life and draw X cards, where X is the sacrificed creature's power."
• Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath can be your commander.

Artist: Daarken

Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath is a potent planeswalker with a focus on draining life from opponents, creating powerful Demon tokens, and eventually leveraging creature sacrifices for significant card advantage and life gain.

Its abilities are well-themed with Ob Nixilis's dark and sadistic nature. The +2 ability offers a steady incremental advantage, slowly sapping the life from opponents while bolstering your own life total. The -2 ability creates a threatening 5/5 Demon token at a cost to your life total, reflecting Ob Nixilis's penchant for dangerous pacts. The ultimate ability, with its powerful sacrificial engine, provides an incredible endgame strategy, turning creatures into life and cards.

Being able to use Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath as a commander adds additional dimensions to deckbuilding, allowing for focused black strategies that leverage life-drain, demon summoning, and sacrifice synergies.

The artwork by Daarken would likely portray Ob Nixilis in his demonic form, exuding an aura of dark power and malevolence, in line with his role as a formidable master of dark arts.