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Obosh, the Preypiercer
Legendary Creature — Hellion Horror · {3}{B/R}{B/R} · Black/Red commander
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with odd mana values and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game for {3} as a sorcery.)
If a source you control with an odd mana value would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
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What Obosh, the Preypiercer actually does
Read off the card by the same engine the Forge and Analyzer use — this is the mechanical classification, not a summary.
- Replacement effect · damage_doublerIf a source you control with an odd mana value would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
- Keyword · companioncompanion
- AbilityCompanion — Your starting deck contains only cards with odd mana values and land cards.
What an Obosh, the Preypiercer deck needs
Plays as damage amplifier. What the commander asks of the other 99 — read from the card and checked by hand.
- odd-mana-value damage sources (each deals double)
The Obosh, the Preypiercer deck plan
The roles the Forge fills for this commander, and how many cards of each.
- 24× A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
- 7× Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- 10× Find the exact card the plan needs
- 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
Best cards for Obosh, the Preypiercer
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.
A repeatable source of damage — a commander that adds to each damage event wants many small events, not one big one
- Impact Tremors2 mana
- Mount Doom0 mana
- Shivan Gorge0 mana
- Coruscation Mage2 mana
- Descent into Avernus3 mana
- Ramunap Ruins0 mana
- Agate Instigator2 mana
- Black Mage's Rod2 mana
Actually remove one problem permanent — preventing its damage is not removing it
- Wild Magic Surge2 mana
- Defile1 mana
- Tragic Slip1 mana
- Infernal Grasp2 mana
- Terminate2 mana
- Fatal Push1 mana
- Bitter Triumph2 mana
- Black Sun's Twilight1 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 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
- Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer1 mana
- Skullclamp1 mana
- Black Market Connections3 mana
- Braids, Arisen Nightmare3 mana
- Morbid Opportunist3 mana
- Phyrexian Arena3 mana
- Professional Face-Breaker3 mana
- The One Ring4 mana
Keep a permanent you control alive through removal
- Hexing Squelcher2 mana
- Lightning Greaves2 mana
- Swiftfoot Boots2 mana
- Eldrazi Monument5 mana
- Commander's Plate1 mana
- Mithril Coat3 mana
- Akroma's Memorial7 mana
- The Walls of Ba Sing Se8 mana
Get ahead on mana
- Sol Ring1 mana
- Rakdos Signet2 mana
- Palladium Myr3 mana
- Worn Powerstone3 mana
- Chrome Mox0 mana
- Everflowing Chalice0 mana
- Mox Diamond0 mana
- Mana Vault1 mana
Combos with Obosh, the Preypiercer
Known combos from Commander Spellbook that Obosh, the Preypiercer is a piece of, and how many decks list them.
- Obosh, the Preypiercer + Heartless Hidetsugu + Glacial Chasm70 decks
- Obosh, the Preypiercer + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Angel35 decks
- Obosh, the Preypiercer + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Emperion16 decks
- Obosh, the Preypiercer + Vigor + Hanabi Blast + Crystalline Crawler + Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer
- Obosh, the Preypiercer + Vigor + Hanabi Blast + Crystalline Crawler + Conspiracy Theorist
- Obosh, the Preypiercer + Vigor + Hanabi Blast + Crystalline Crawler + Bösium Strip