Ob Nixilis, Unshackled (Commander) - Shadowborn Apostles

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Jeremy Rowe
May 15, 2025
Building a Demon Typal Deck with Ardyn, the Usurper
Let's build a mono-black Demon typal Commander deck around Ardyn, the Usurper, a new legend from the upcoming Final Fantasy set.
Deck Filters
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Archidekt
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Moxfield
Scryfall
MTGStocks
Shadowborn Apostle
100% of 13 decks +99% synergy
Scheming Symmetry
54% of 13 decks +50% synergy
Varragoth, Bloodsky Sire
54% of 13 decks +49% synergy
Rune-Scarred Demon
54% of 13 decks +49% synergy
Maralen of the Mornsong
46% of 13 decks +45% synergy
Liliana's Contract
46% of 13 decks +44% synergy
Archfiend of Despair
46% of 13 decks +44% synergy
Harvester of Souls
46% of 13 decks +39% synergy
Indulgent Tormentor
38% of 13 decks +37% synergy
Field of Ruin
38% of 13 decks +36% synergy
Top Cards
Dark Ritual
69% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Jet Medallion
54% of 13 decks -4% synergy
Diabolic Tutor
46% of 13 decks +31% synergy
Razaketh, the Foulblooded
38% of 13 decks +33% synergy
Archfiend of Depravity
38% of 13 decks +32% synergy
Abhorrent Overlord
38% of 13 decks +34% synergy
Rise of the Dark Realms
38% of 13 decks +27% synergy
Vilis, Broker of Blood
38% of 13 decks +24% synergy
Diabolic Intent
31% of 13 decks +17% synergy
Lightning Greaves
31% of 13 decks -3% synergy
Game Changers
Demonic Tutor
62% of 13 decks +33% synergy
Vampiric Tutor
46% of 13 decks +23% synergy
Opposition Agent
38% of 13 decks +28% synergy
Bolas's Citadel
23% of 13 decks -7% synergy
Ad Nauseam
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Imperial Seal
8% of 13 decks +1% synergy
Tergrid, God of Fright
8% of 13 decks -1% synergy
Creatures
Abyssal Harvester
40% of 5 decks +35% synergy
Reaper from the Abyss
31% of 13 decks +29% synergy
Dreadfeast Demon
31% of 13 decks +30% synergy
Shadowgrange Archfiend
31% of 13 decks +29% synergy
Lord of the Void
31% of 13 decks +29% synergy
Gray Merchant of Asphodel
31% of 13 decks -22% synergy
Bloodletter of Aclazotz
25% of 12 decks +14% synergy
Desecration Demon
23% of 13 decks +22% synergy
Taborax, Hope's Demise
23% of 13 decks +22% synergy
Crypt Ghast
23% of 13 decks -25% synergy
Nightmare Shepherd
23% of 13 decks +21% synergy
Overseer of the Damned
23% of 13 decks +20% synergy
Demon of Loathing
23% of 13 decks +22% synergy
Sower of Discord
23% of 13 decks +21% synergy
Accursed Marauder
22% of 9 decks +2% synergy
Master of Dark Rites
17% of 12 decks +15% synergy
Defiler of Flesh
15% of 13 decks +11% synergy
Reassembling Skeleton
15% of 13 decks -1% synergy
Archfiend of Spite
15% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Sheoldred
15% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Bloodgift Demon
15% of 13 decks +12% synergy
Sheoldred, Whispering One
15% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Whisper, Blood Liturgist
15% of 13 decks +13% synergy
Demonlord Belzenlok
15% of 13 decks +14% synergy
Plaguecrafter
15% of 13 decks -4% synergy
Master of the Feast
15% of 13 decks +13% synergy
Great Unclean One
15% of 13 decks +13% synergy
Xathrid Demon
15% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Ob Nixilis, the Fallen
15% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Solemn Simulacrum
15% of 13 decks -9% synergy
Shadow-Rite Priest
15% of 13 decks +14% synergy
Blood Speaker
15% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Demon of Wailing Agonies
15% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Apocalypse Demon
15% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Liliana, Heretical Healer
15% of 13 decks +11% synergy
Blood Artist
15% of 13 decks -15% synergy
Bringer of the Last Gift
8% of 12 decks +7% synergy
Vein Ripper
8% of 12 decks +3% synergy
Magus of the Coffers
8% of 13 decks -0% synergy
Clockwork Fox
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Extractor Demon
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Demon's Disciple
8% of 13 decks +0% synergy
Scaretiller
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Bloodvial Purveyor
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Tallyman of Nurgle
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Dream Devourer
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Embodiment of Agonies
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Fleshbag Marauder
8% of 13 decks -7% synergy
Mindslicer
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Grim Haruspex
8% of 13 decks -2% synergy
Instants
Cabal Ritual
23% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Feign Death
23% of 13 decks +16% synergy
Infernal Grasp
23% of 13 decks -2% synergy
Sheoldred's Edict
23% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Culling the Weak
23% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Not Dead After All
17% of 12 decks +6% synergy
Withering Torment
17% of 6 decks -14% synergy
Soul Shatter
15% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Doom Blade
15% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Snuff Out
15% of 13 decks +4% synergy
Imp's Mischief
15% of 13 decks -7% synergy
Go for the Throat
15% of 13 decks -9% synergy
Songs of the Damned
15% of 13 decks +10% synergy
Defile
15% of 13 decks -24% synergy
Consuming Corruption
11% of 9 decks -6% synergy
Bitter Triumph
8% of 12 decks -2% synergy
Deadly Dispute
8% of 13 decks -14% synergy
Cast Down
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Thrilling Encore
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Murder
8% of 13 decks -2% synergy
Reckoner's Bargain
8% of 13 decks +4% synergy
Armor of Shadows
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Necrologia
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Heartless Act
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Black Sun's Twilight
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Village Rites
8% of 13 decks -16% synergy
Skeletal Scrying
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Body Count
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Gravepurge
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Terror
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Sacrifice
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Withering Boon
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Tendrils of Corruption
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Undying Malice
8% of 13 decks -1% synergy
Dash Hopes
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Baleful Mastery
8% of 13 decks -3% synergy
Szat's Will
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Blood Pact
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Dark Bargain
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Sorceries
Demonic Counsel
33% of 6 decks +30% synergy
Feed the Swarm
31% of 13 decks -22% synergy
Damnation
31% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Reanimate
31% of 13 decks -6% synergy
Echoing Return
23% of 13 decks +20% synergy
Profane Tutor
23% of 13 decks +18% synergy
Bubbling Muck
23% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Toxic Deluge
23% of 13 decks -14% synergy
Beseech the Queen
15% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Secret Salvage
15% of 13 decks +14% synergy
Sign in Blood
15% of 13 decks -22% synergy
Breach the Multiverse
15% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Victimize
15% of 13 decks -9% synergy
Infernal Tutor
15% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Haunting Voyage
15% of 13 decks +14% synergy
Grim Tutor
15% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Exsanguinate
15% of 13 decks -9% synergy
Agadeem's Awakening
15% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Decree of Pain
15% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Dark Petition
15% of 13 decks +11% synergy
Insatiable Avarice
10% of 10 decks -3% synergy
Beseech the Mirror
8% of 12 decks +1% synergy
Extract a Confession
8% of 12 decks +7% synergy
Soul Strings
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Necromantic Selection
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Profane Command
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Dread Return
8% of 13 decks -5% synergy
Absorb Vis
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Black Sun's Zenith
8% of 13 decks +2% synergy
Yawgmoth's Vile Offering
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Mind Twist
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Damnable Pact
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Thoughtseize
8% of 13 decks +2% synergy
Army of the Damned
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Macabre Waltz
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Read the Bones
8% of 13 decks -12% synergy
In Garruk's Wake
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Kindred Dominance
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Razaketh's Rite
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Buried Alive
8% of 13 decks -3% synergy
Torment of Hailfire
8% of 13 decks -9% synergy
Sadistic Sacrament
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Bitter Ordeal
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Duress
8% of 13 decks +1% synergy
Settle the Score
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Inquisition of Kozilek
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Cruel Tutor
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Corrupt
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Emergency Weld
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Mutilate
8% of 13 decks -13% synergy
Utility Artifacts
Ashnod's Altar
31% of 13 decks +11% synergy
Bontu's Monument
23% of 13 decks -5% synergy
Swiftfoot Boots
23% of 13 decks -8% synergy
Mithril Coat
15% of 13 decks +10% synergy
Spellbook
15% of 13 decks +14% synergy
Quicksilver Amulet
15% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Thrumming Stone
15% of 13 decks +11% synergy
Vedalken Orrery
15% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Transmogrant Altar
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Assault Suit
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Rings of Brighthearth
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Reito Lantern
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Herald's Horn
8% of 13 decks +2% synergy
Maskwood Nexus
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Darksteel Plate
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Mishra's Bauble
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Elbrus, the Binding Blade
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Howling Mine
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Anvil of Bogardan
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Psychogenic Probe
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Renegade Map
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Wayfarer's Bauble
8% of 13 decks -10% synergy
Animation Module
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Belbe's Portal
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Infiltration Lens
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Whispersilk Cloak
8% of 13 decks +2% synergy
Demon's Horn
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
The Immortal Sun
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Lithoform Engine
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Strionic Resonator
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Doubling Cube
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Vat of Rebirth
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Crucible of Worlds
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Venser's Journal
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Wishclaw Talisman
8% of 13 decks +1% synergy
Whip of Erebos
8% of 13 decks -3% synergy
Mask of Memory
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Enchantments
Revel in Riches
23% of 13 decks +18% synergy
Exquisite Blood
23% of 13 decks +10% synergy
Funeral Room // Awakening Hall
17% of 6 decks +12% synergy
Meathook Massacre II
17% of 6 decks +9% synergy
Painful Quandary
15% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Black Market Connections
15% of 13 decks -7% synergy
Sanguine Bond
15% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Kaya's Ghostform
15% of 13 decks +5% synergy
No Mercy
15% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Virtue of Persistence
8% of 12 decks +2% synergy
Vampiric Rites
8% of 13 decks +2% synergy
Phyrexian Arena
8% of 13 decks -33% synergy
Greed
8% of 13 decks -1% synergy
Dictate of Erebos
8% of 13 decks -3% synergy
Conspiracy
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Bad Moon
8% of 13 decks +4% synergy
Court of Ambition
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Tainted Remedy
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Rite of Belzenlok
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Underworld Connections
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Necrosynthesis
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Warlock Class
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Bastion of Remembrance
8% of 13 decks -8% synergy
Phyrexian Reclamation
8% of 13 decks -3% synergy
Unhallowed Pact
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Underworld Dreams
8% of 13 decks +1% synergy
Eternal Thirst
8% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Oversold Cemetery
8% of 13 decks +2% synergy
Grave Pact
8% of 13 decks -10% synergy
Heartless Summoning
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
No Rest for the Wicked
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Mark of the Oni
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Nurgle's Rot
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
The Eldest Reborn
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Demonic Rising
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy
The Meathook Massacre
8% of 13 decks -9% synergy
Waste Not
8% of 13 decks -4% synergy
World-Weary
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy
Minion's Return
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Wound Reflection
8% of 13 decks +4% synergy
Black Market
8% of 13 decks -14% synergy
Planeswalkers
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
31% of 13 decks +30% synergy
Liliana of the Dark Realms
31% of 13 decks +17% synergy
Ob Nixilis Reignited
23% of 13 decks +20% synergy
Ob Nixilis, the Hate-Twisted
23% of 13 decks +20% synergy
Tevesh Szat, Doom of Fools
15% of 13 decks +12% synergy
Liliana, Dreadhorde General
8% of 13 decks -5% synergy
Utility Lands
Cabal Coffers
46% of 13 decks -10% synergy
Bojuka Bog
38% of 13 decks -8% synergy
Volatile Fault
33% of 12 decks +33% synergy
Cabal Stronghold
31% of 13 decks -6% synergy
Ghost Quarter
31% of 13 decks +28% synergy
Leechridden Swamp
31% of 13 decks +28% synergy
Witch's Cottage
23% of 13 decks -1% synergy
Vesuva
23% of 13 decks +20% synergy
Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth
23% of 13 decks -15% synergy
Reliquary Tower
23% of 13 decks -9% synergy
Crypt of Agadeem
23% of 13 decks +13% synergy
Thespian's Stage
23% of 13 decks +17% synergy
Echoing Deeps
17% of 12 decks +16% synergy
Phyrexian Tower
15% of 13 decks -7% synergy
Temple of the False God
15% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Shizo, Death's Storehouse
15% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Nykthos, Shrine to Nyx
15% of 13 decks -15% synergy
Memorial to Folly
15% of 13 decks +12% synergy
Rogue's Passage
15% of 13 decks -2% synergy
Barren Moor
8% of 13 decks -4% synergy
Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
8% of 13 decks -9% synergy
Polluted Mire
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Dark Depths
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
The Black Gate
8% of 13 decks +4% synergy
War Room
8% of 13 decks -9% synergy
Westvale Abbey
8% of 13 decks +2% synergy
Terrain Generator
8% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Buried Ruin
8% of 13 decks +2% synergy
Lake of the Dead
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Mortuary Mire
8% of 13 decks -6% synergy
Command Beacon
8% of 13 decks -0% synergy
Mana Artifacts
Sol Ring
85% of 13 decks -2% synergy
Arcane Signet
46% of 13 decks -17% synergy
Charcoal Diamond
31% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Gauntlet of Power
23% of 13 decks +19% synergy
Nyx Lotus
23% of 13 decks +15% synergy
Caged Sun
23% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Throne of Eldraine
17% of 12 decks +5% synergy
Séance Board
17% of 6 decks +15% synergy
Extraplanar Lens
15% of 13 decks +10% synergy
Thought Vessel
15% of 13 decks -13% synergy
Mind Stone
15% of 13 decks -18% synergy
Coldsteel Heart
15% of 13 decks +14% synergy
Thran Dynamo
15% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Commander's Sphere
15% of 13 decks +5% synergy
Gilded Lotus
15% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Sceptre of Eternal Glory
8% of 13 decks -3% synergy
Chromatic Orrery
8% of 13 decks +7% synergy
Decanter of Endless Water
8% of 13 decks +4% synergy
Heraldic Banner
8% of 13 decks +2% synergy
Hedron Archive
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Fellwar Stone
8% of 13 decks -8% synergy
Jeweled Lotus
8% of 13 decks +3% synergy
Lands
Swamp
100% of 13 decks +6% synergy
Command Tower
31% of 13 decks +25% synergy
Demolition Field
31% of 13 decks +25% synergy
Evolving Wilds
23% of 13 decks +20% synergy
Myriad Landscape
15% of 13 decks -13% synergy
Agadeem's Awakening
15% of 13 decks +9% synergy
Ancient Ziggurat
8% of 13 decks +8% synergy