Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath card art — Art by Daarken · © Wizards of the Coast

Sworn To Darkness

Bracket 2

C14 — Commander 2014 · 2014-11-07

Commander: Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath · Color identity: B

Bracket

Power Level

4.4/10

Tipping Point

Game Changers

Why this bracket?

Card popularity is jank-tier (55% niche/jank), but the goldfish sim closes games around turn 10 in 99% of simulated hands — a deck that reliably works toward winning stays Bracket 2 (Core).
High optimization — score 25/75 (14 interaction spells, 12 card-advantage sources, 1 fast-mana sources) — raises this deck above its hard floor
Engine accuracy: 77.1% exact and 99.5% within one bracket on 1,229 organizer-labeled tournament decklists (engine v389).

How it compares

Against the 5 Commander 2014 decks we analyzed, this is 2nd strongest — power 4.4 versus a set average of 4.4. That is about average for the library (4.6 across 174 precons). Its Tipping Point lands on turn 3, 1 turn earlier than the library median of turn 4.

More Commander 2014 decks

Peer Through Time — Bracket 3, power 5.6
Guided By Nature — Bracket 2, power 4.3
Built From Scratch — Bracket 2, power 4.0
Forged In Stone — Bracket 2, power 3.9

Other Bracket 2 precons at a similar power

Ahoy Mateys — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Blame Game — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Calling All Angels — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Chaos Incarnate — Bracket 2, power 4.4
Draconic Destruction — Bracket 2, power 4.4

Upgrade this precon

6 staples this deck does not already run — all legal in Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath's color identity, none over $20, and none of them a Game Changer, so none forces a Bracket 3 floor on its own. Adding cards can still move the bracket: paste the updated list back into the calculator to re-check.

Arcane Signet Ramp $0.49
Wayfarer's Bauble Ramp $5.61
Night's Whisper Card advantage $6.25
Lightning Greaves Protection $4.10
Command Tower Lands $0.25
Reliquary Tower Lands $4.23

Add all 6 to TCGplayer cart — about $20.93

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Decklist (100 cards)

1 Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath
1 Skirsdag High Priest
1 Nantuko Shade
1 Vampire Hexmage
1 Burnished Hart
1 Flesh Carver
1 Crypt Ghast
1 Disciple of Bolas
1 Evernight Shade
1 Abyssal Persecutor
1 Nekrataal
1 Magus of the Coffers
1 Raving Dead
1 Shriekmaw
1 Bloodgift Demon
1 Demon of Wailing Agonies
1 Drana, Kalastria Bloodchief
1 Ghoulcaller Gisa
1 Gray Merchant of Asphodel
1 Morkrut Banshee
1 Grave Titan
1 Phyrexian Gargantua
1 Pontiff of Blight
1 Reaper from the Abyss
1 Butcher of Malakir
1 Overseer of the Damned
1 Pestilence Demon
1 Liliana's Reaver
1 Xathrid Demon
1 Sign in Blood
1 Read the Bones
1 Victimize
1 Syphon Mind
1 Dread Return
1 Mutilate
1 Infernal Offering
1 Aether Snap
1 Promise of Power
1 Necromantic Selection
1 Profane Command
1 Dregs of Sorrow
1 Black Sun's Zenith
1 Spoils of Blood
1 Tragic Slip
1 Malicious Affliction
1 Sudden Spoiling
1 Tendrils of Corruption
1 Annihilate
1 Skeletal Scrying
1 Wake the Dead
1 Sol Ring
1 Charcoal Diamond
1 Jet Medallion
1 Mind Stone
1 Swiftfoot Boots
1 Unstable Obelisk
1 Worn Powerstone
1 Lashwrithe
1 Commander's Sphere
1 Bad Moon
1 Arcane Lighthouse
1 Barren Moor
1 Bojuka Bog
1 Crypt of Agadeem
1 Everglades
1 Ghost Quarter
1 Myriad Landscape
1 Polluted Mire
8 Swamp
8 Swamp
8 Swamp
8 Swamp

Bracket assignment per WotC Commander Brackets Beta. Decklist sourced from MTGJSON (https://mtgjson.com/api/v5/decks/SwornToDarkness_C14.json). Analyzed against https://scrollvault.net on 2026-10-09.