Obeka "turn-based trading card game" primer

Commander / EDH Combo Infinite Combo Theft UBR (Grixis)

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Land (32)

• 1x Badlands
• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Bloodstained Mire
• 1x Bojuka Bog
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 1x Hall of the Bandit Lord
• 1x Hanweir Battlements  ^{Flip  Meld}
• 2x Island
• 1x Minamo, School at Water's Edge
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Murkwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Plaza of Heroes
• 1x Polluted Delta
• 1x Reliquary Tower
• 1x Riverglide Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Scalding Tarn
• 1x Searstep Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Song-Mad Ruins  ^Flip
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Swamp
• 1x Training Center
• 1x Underground Sea
• 1x Volcanic Island
• 1x Watery Grave
• 1x Xander's Lounge

Enchantment (8)

• 1x Black Market Connections
• 1x Dawn of the Dead
• 1x Fable of the Mirror-Breaker  ^Flip
• 1x Psychic Vortex
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Splinter Twin
• 1x Underworld Breach

Creature (24)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Archaeomancer
• 1x Ardent Elementalist
• 1x Deadeye Navigator
• 1x Deceiver Exarch
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Firbolg Flutist
• 1x Hostage Taker
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Izzet Chronarch
• 1x Jaxis, the Troublemaker
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Magar of the Magic Strings
• 1x Mnemonic Wall
• 1x Molten Primordial
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
• 1x Peregrine Drake
• 1x Pestermite
• 1x Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance
• 1x Simian Spirit Guide
• 1x Thassa, Deep-Dwelling
• 1x Wormfang Manta
• 1x Xanathar, Guild Kingpin

Instant (11)

• 1x Cyclonic Rift
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Domineering Will
• 1x Fierce Guardianship
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Ghostly Flicker
• 1x Mana Drain
• 1x Mystical Tutor
• 1x Seething Song
• 1x Vampiric Tutor

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Conjurer's Closet
• 1x Erratic Portal
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Lotus Petal
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Mox Amber
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Thousand-Year Elixir
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Sorcery (9)

• 1x Call for Aid
• 1x Demonic Tutor
• 1x Gamble
• 1x Ideas Unbound
• 1x Last Chance
• 1x Mob Rule
• 1x Rite of Flame
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Warrior's Oath

Planeswalker (2)

• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Geyadrone Dihada

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Creature (22)

• 1x AEthersnipe
• 1x Elite Arcanist
• 1x Emrakul's Hatcher
• 1x Generator Servant
• 1x Great Whale
• 1x Grinning Ignus
• 1x Havengul Lich
• 1x Identity Thief
• 1x Ingot Chewer
• 1x Molten Gatekeeper
• 1x Nephalia Smuggler
• 1x Priest of Gix
• 1x Priest of Urabrask
• 1x Prosperous Pirates
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Rapacious Dragon
• 1x Sauron, the Lidless Eye
• 1x Sedris, the Traitor King
• 1x Shriekmaw
• 1x Thassa's Oracle
• 1x The Master, Multiplied
• 1x Willbreaker

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Followed Footsteps
• 1x In the Darkness Bind Them
• 1x Propaganda
• 1x The Horus Heresy

Land (11)

• 1x Arid Mesa
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Flooded Strand
• 1x Marsh Flats
• 1x Misty Rainforest
• 1x Smoldering Marsh
• 1x Sunken Hollow
• 1x Temple of Epiphany
• 1x Thundering Falls
• 1x Verdant Catacombs
• 1x Wooded Foothills

Instant (10)

• 1x Demonic Consultation
• 1x Flusterstorm
• 1x Force of Negation
• 1x Force of Will
• 1x Fumble
• 1x Grip of Phyresis
• 1x Stifle
• 1x Strix Serenade
• 1x Swan Song
• 1x Withering Torment

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Blasphemous Edict
• 1x Claim the Firstborn
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Insurrection
• 1x Kari Zev's Expertise
• 1x Mass Mutiny
• 1x Molten Duplication
• 1x Red Sun's Twilight
• 1x Tempted by the Oriq
• 1x Wrangle

Artifact (9)

• 1x Chrome Mox
• 1x Dimir Signet
• 1x Energy Refractor
• 1x Isochron Scepter
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Rakdos Signet
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

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"Turn-based trading card game" is a joke, because you take infinite turns and you take everyone's cards with this deck. Please laugh.

Anyway.... so, Obeka, Brute Chronologist, aka Sundial of the Infinite on a stick, is great. Not only does she let you dodge questionable end-of-turn effects, but she also serves as a capable combo piece in the command zone.

Before we get into combos (and by the gods there are SO many in here...), let's address the way she actually works in this deck. And before we can do that, we have to talk about how "end of turn" effects technically function.

If you end your turn during combat to dodge a trick, or during your main phase when evoking a Mulldrifter (after drawing and with the sac effect on the stack lets you keep it)... your "until end-of-turn" effects will still happen. That means you still have to sacrifice your tokens from Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker or whomever, you lose the game from Final Fortune, you still have to discard from Ideas Unbound, return control of creature from Firbolg Flutist, etc. It can be worth it to keep your Mulldrifter that you cast for {2}{U}, but you need to be mindful of when you use it like that.

Instead, what you usually want to do is interact with the stack during your own end step. Each of these things creates a delayed trigger which happens during your end phase. You, as active player, get to choose the order these triggers go on the stack. You can allow some end-of-turn effects to resolve (such as letting Call for Aid's restriction on who you can attack resolve, or having your Thassa, Deep-Dwelling trigger go through), and then leave the unpleasant ones (like "Lose the game" from Final Fortune or "Return control of creatures" from Call for Aid) on the stack, and then activate Obeka, Brute Chronologist to exile the stack and end your turn all over again. Those end-of-turn triggers, having fired already, are gone, and you can continue playing.

Understanding this turns Ideas Unbound into Ancestral Recall. It turns Final Fortune, Last Chance, and Warrior's Oath into Time Walk. It turns all your single-turn thievery spells into permanent thievery spells. You get the drift.

Other generally amazing cards in this deck

Xanathar, Guild Kingpin + Obeka, Brute Chronologist = each upkeep, you can Silence an enemy for the rest of the game...

Psychic Vortex: CUMULATIVE UPKEEP: DRAW A CARD. HOLY S***. Just dodge the crappy EOT trigger with Obeka, Brute Chronologist

Sneak Attack: all your creatures now cost R and can be cast at instant speed on your own turn (you still have to sac if you flash one in during someone else's turn)

Underworld Breach you just keep it forever lol

Use your thievery to keep people off balance and remove their combo pieces while you line up your own win.

In the end, the win cons are:

1. Infinite turns
2. Infinite Pestermites
3. Stealing people's creatures and beating them to death with their own cards

For win con 1, here's what you need:

Obeka, Brute Chronologist or Sundial of the Infinite +

Final Fortune, Last Chance, or Warrior's Oath +

Archaeomancer. Ardent Elementalist, Izzet Chronarch, or Mnemonic Wall +

Deadeye Navigator, Feldon of the Third Path (if your instant/sorcery return creature is in your graveyard), Ilharg, the Raze-Boar (if your instant/sorcery return creature is in your hand), Jaxis, the Troublemaker for blitz/no sac, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink, Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance, Thassa, Deep-Dwelling, Reflection of Kiki-Jiki  , Splinter Twin, Ghostly Flicker, Conjurer's Closet, Erratic Portal, or Mimic Vat

Here's how it works. Cast Final Fortune. Have your Archaeomancer enter, return it to your hand. Do whatever else you want on your turn, pass to yourself.

Next turn, from hand, cast Final Fortune again. On your end-of-turn, have your Thassa, Deep-Dwelling flicker your Archaeomancer, returning Final Fortune to your hand again. Leave the delayed "Lose the game" trigger from Final Fortune on the stack, and activate Obeka, Brute Chronologist, exiling that trigger. Pass to yourself, and continue with infinite turns.

You can sub in any other instant/sorcery like, say, Cyclonic Rift for a rift every turn, indefinitely.

You can also get infinite turns with careful manipulation of Wormfang Manta flickering/cloning + Obeka, Brute Chronologist. Magar of the Magic Strings can also get you there, you reanimate your Final Fortune as a 3/3, and swing at someone who can't block.

For win con 2, here's what you need:

Pestermite or Deceiver Exarch +

Splinter Twin or Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker... Or if you can't get one of those, Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink, Saheeli, the Sun's Brilliance, Reflection of Kiki-Jiki  , or Mimic Vat + infinite mana will do the trick (you get infinite mana with Deadeye Navigator + Peregrine Drake)

This gets you infinite hasty dudes who actually persist if, for some reason, you need them to via Obeka, Brute Chronologist.

For win con 3, here's what you need:

Imagine Firbolg Flutist + Thassa, Deep-Dwelling + Obeka, Brute Chronologist. This is stealing any creature from anyone, forever, every turn.

Or Call for Aid, let the delayed trigger for who they can attack resolve, and then activate Obeka, Brute Chronologist with the return control trigger on the stack, keeping them free and clear forever.

Hostage Taker is SO good in this context. Exile something, cast it, and then flicker Hostage Taker to exile something else.

Geyadrone Dihada lets you steal planeswalkers lol

This deck isn't CEDH or anything, but probably is around 8.5/10 in power level. With a great hand you could win on turn 3ish leveraging Pestermite, Splinter Twin, and fast mana, and turn 3-5 with infinite turns.

Date added	4 months
Last updated	3 days
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	19 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 9 - 0 Uncommons 17 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.37
Tokens	Copy Clone, Eldrazi Horror 3/2 C, Emblem Dack Fayden, Goblin Shaman, Shapeshifter 3/2 C, Treasure