Obeka EDH - Abusing delayed triggers

Commander / EDH* UBR (Grixis)

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Creature (24)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Araumi of the Dead Tide
• 1x Auton Soldier
• 1x Consecrated Sphinx
• 1x Dalek Squadron
• 1x Etali, Primal Storm
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Flamerush Rider
• 1x Identity Thief
• 1x It That Betrays
• 1x Jaxis, the Troublemaker
• 1x Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Mishra, Eminent One
• 1x Mulldrifter
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Notion Thief
• 1x Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
• 1x Sedris, the Traitor King
• 1x Solemn Simulacrum
• 1x The Master, Multiplied
• 1x Wurmcoil Engine
• 1x Zara, Renegade Recruiter

Sorcery (11)

• 1x Alchemist's Gambit
• 1x Black Sun's Zenith
• 1x Blasphemous Act
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Feed the Swarm
• 1x Hate Mirage
• 1x Ideas Unbound
• 1x Last Chance
• 1x Red Sun's Twilight
• 1x Twinflame

Land (36)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Clearwater Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Creeping Tar Pit
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Desolate Lighthouse
• 1x Dimir Aqueduct
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Haunted Ridge
• 5x Island
• 1x Lavaclaw Reaches
• 1x Luxury Suite
• 9x Mountain
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Shipwreck Marsh
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Stormcarved Coast
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 3x Swamp

Instant (11)

• 1x An Offer You Can't Refuse
• 1x Arcane Denial
• 1x Cauldron Dance
• 1x Counterspell
• 1x Disallow
• 1x Discontinuity
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Glorious End
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Thrill of Possibility

Commander (1)

Artifact (13)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Fellwar Stone
• 1x Izzet Signet
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Mimic Vat
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite
• 1x Swiftfoot Boots
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence
• 1x Urabrask's Forge
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Enchantment (4)

• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Psychic Vortex
• 1x Rhystic Study
• 1x Sneak Attack

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Sideboard

Creature (6)

• 1x Hellkite Courser
• 1x Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
• 1x Orthion, Hero of Lavabrink
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Rakshasa Debaser
• 1x The Twelfth Doctor

Sorcery (2)

• 1x Diabolic Tutor
• 1x Slave of Bolas

Instant (1)

• 1x Macabre Mockery

Artifact (1)

• 1x Chromatic Lantern

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Maybeboard

Sorcery (4)

• 1x Damnation
• 1x Ponder
• 1x Vandalblast
• 1x Voidwalk

Enchantment (2)

• 1x Mirror March
• 1x Phyrexian Arena

Instant (3)

• 1x Brainstorm
• 1x Deadly Rollick
• 1x Snuff Out

Land (1)

• 1x Watery Grave

Creature (2)

• 1x Blightsteel Colossus *list*
• 1x Goblin Electromancer

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Obeka, Brute Chronologist's ability is confusing at first, but basically we can use it to clear the stack. Why would we want to do that? Well, there are many cards are balanced around giving you something, and then taking it away later. Sneak Attack wants you to sacrifice the creature at the end of the turn. Nope. Now you can play ANY creature for one mana. You can see where this is going.

The deck heavily relies on Obeka, so we try to build as much redundancy of this fairly unique effect as possible. Sundial of the Infinite is the only thing that does exactly this but The Master, Multiplied also turns off the majority of the triggers we want to stop. He's also a monster on his own so he's good to have.

The majority of the triggers we stop are sacrifice ones Sedris, Traitor King Araumi of the Dead Tide pull things from the graveyard which we then can keep permanently. The deck is packed with Faithless Looting Careful Study effects to get us what we need and put expensive boys in the graveyard Massacre Wurm It That Betrays. Imagine suddenly having three hasty It That Betrays come down, that you get to keep after the encore effect. Nasty. Also red copy effects Flameshadow Conjuring Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker allow us to make cheap clones that stick around. If we end the turn during the myriad trigger we can also keep the clones from Auton Soldier and those clones also have myriad... that gets out of hand quickly.

We also can skip some of the bad discard effects. People get salty about Rhystic Study... well Psychic Vortex draws you n+1 card every turn. Identity Thief becomes Swords to Plowshares on a stick if you clear away the return to battlefield trigger. Red Sun's Twilight lets you keep all the artifact copies and Zara, Renegade Recruiter leveled up her game, because the cards you steal also stick around permanently.

Extra turn spells are strong, so let's put in the cheapest ones. Final Fortune Alchemist's Gambit Last Chance let you take an extra turn for way below cost, because you just end the turn to remove that pesky lose the game trigger.

The deck is very dependent on us being able to end the turn so we rely very heavily on the Obeka being around. Running the classic Swiftfoot Boots Lightning Greaves and a handful of Counterspells to make her stick.

Date added	1 year
Last updated	1 year
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 2 Mythic Rares 40 - 5 Rares 17 - 3 Uncommons 14 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.55
Tokens	Copy Clone, Mishra's Warform, Phyrexian Horror X/1 R, Treasure, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Deathtouch, Wurm 3/3 C w/ Lifelink
Folders	Current Commanders