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Obeka, Brute Chronologist
Legendary Creature — Ogre Wizard · {1}{U}{B}{R} · Black/Red/Blue commander
{T}: The player whose turn it is may end the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)
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What Obeka, Brute Chronologist actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Activated ability{T}: The player whose turn it is may end the turn.
What an Obeka, Brute Chronologist deck needs
Plays as end the turn. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- effects that sacrifice or exile at end of turn — unearth, Sneak Attack and temporary tokens (ending the turn skips them)
- haste for the commander
The Obeka, Brute Chronologist deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 8× Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- 8× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 5× Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- 3× Answer a whole board at once
- 9× Refill your hand
- 4× Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- 11× Get ahead on mana
- 20× A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
Best cards for Obeka, Brute Chronologist
Ranked by an engine that reads what each card does — its real cost, its delay and how reliably it works — rather than counting how often other people play it.
Put haste on the commander the turn it resolves — a tap ability is unusable otherwise
- Rising of the Day3 mana
- Thousand-Year Elixir3 mana
- Frostcliff Siege3 mana
- The Fire Crystal4 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Urabrask the Hidden5 mana
- Fervor3 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Reality Shift2 mana
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Pongify1 mana
- Rapid Hybridization1 mana
- Resculpt2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
Find the exact card the plan needs
- Demonic Tutor2 mana
- Diabolic Intent2 mana
- Vampiric Tutor1 mana
- Imperial Seal1 mana
- Demonic Consultation1 mana
- Grim Tutor3 mana
- Tainted Pact2 mana
- Scheming Symmetry1 mana
Answer a spell or ability before it resolves
- Mindbreak Trap4 mana
- Fierce Guardianship3 mana
- Force of Negation3 mana
- Force of Will5 mana
- Flare of Denial3 mana
- Pact of Negation0 mana
- An Offer You Can't Refuse1 mana
- Arcane Denial2 mana
Answer a whole board at once
- Toxic Deluge3 mana
- Damnation4 mana
- Blasphemous Act9 mana
- Chain Reaction4 mana
- Bontu's Last Reckoning3 mana
- Street Spasm1 mana
- Sickening Dreams2 mana
- Crypt Rats3 mana
Refill your hand
- Mystic Remora1 mana
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Curiosity1 mana
- Wizard Class1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lost in the Maze2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Dimir Signet2 mana
- Izzet Signet2 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
A permanent that does something every turn it is on the battlefield — the deck's body, for a commander whose text asks for nothing specific
- Crashing Drawbridge2 mana
- Bontu's Monument3 mana
- Oketra's Monument3 mana
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose3 mana
- Artist's Talent2 mana
- Goro-Goro, Disciple of Ryusei2 mana
- Nightscape Familiar2 mana
- Roiling Vortex2 mana
Combos with Obeka, Brute Chronologist
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Obeka, Brute Chronologist is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Obeka, Brute Chronologist + Isochron Scepter + Final Fortune1,972 decks
- Obeka, Brute Chronologist + Final Fortune + Archaeomancer + Feldon Of The Third Path276 decks
- Obeka, Brute Chronologist + Exalted Flamer Of Tzeentch + Last Chance125 decks
- Obeka, Brute Chronologist + Exalted Flamer Of Tzeentch + Final Fortune122 decks
- Obeka, Brute Chronologist + Final Fortune + Elite Arcanist111 decks
- Obeka, Brute Chronologist + Exalted Flamer Of Tzeentch + Warrior's Oath107 decks