We don't often get that many two card combos in Standard.
In older formats like Modern, they're almost a foregone conclusion giving the sheer size of the cardpool, but in smaller and more closely curated formats like Standard, they're far less common.
And when the combo is already in the best color pair in the format and works well with many of the format's best cards? Watch out!
Time Stamps:
02:57 - Match 1
14:38 - Match 2
Ob Infinite | MOM Standard | Jim Davis
- Creatures (16)
- 4 Bloodtithe Harvester
- 4 Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton
- 4 Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin
- 4 Voldaren Epicure
- Instants (3)
- 3 Go for the Throat
- Enchantments (7)
- 3 All Will Be One
- 4 Fable of the Mirror-Breaker
- Artifacts (6)
- 2 Mishra's Research Desk
- 4 Oni-Cult Anvil
- Battles (4)
- 4 Invasion of Azgol // Ashen Reaper
- Lands (24)
- 4 Swamp
- 5 Mountain
- 1 Blast Zone
- 1 Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- 1 Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- 4 Blackcleave Cliffs
- 4 Haunted Ridge
- 4 Sulfurous Springs
- Sideboard (15)
- 3 Cut Down
- 2 Razorlash Transmogrant
- 2 Lithomantic Barrage
- 4 Duress
- 2 Sheoldred, the Apocalypse
- 2 Glistening Deluge
The combo is simple. Have All Will Be One and the new Ob Nixilis, Captive Kingpin in play, and find some way to deal your opponent one damage. This will trigger the Ob and give it a counter, which triggers the All Will Be One to deal one damage to your opponent, which will trigger Ob and give it a counter, and so on and so forth.
Of course, it's a little more like a 2.5 card combo, because you do need some way to deal that single point of damage after assembling the two cards, but there are a myriad of ways to do so in the format for zero mana that are already excellent in the deck. Graveyard Trespasser // Graveyard Glutton is already one of the premier threats in Rakdos Midrange anyway, and while Oni-Cult Anvil has fallen out of favor it was once a major player in the format. The also new Invasion of Azgol // Ashen Reaper is a fine card that does the one damage deed as well, while also providing counters for All Will Be One absent of the combo.
Adding an infinite combo to the one of the best shells in the format is very exciting, as you really can't go wrong playing Bloodtithe Harvester and Fable of the Mirror-Breaker // Reflection of Kiki-Jiki in Standard right now, and this combo gives you a way to go way over the top of any sort of Atraxa, Grand Unifier or slow Mono-White Control deck that may give you trouble!