OBEKA reanimator

Commander / EDH* Flashback Reanimator UBR (Grixis) Unearth

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Lands (35)

• 1x Blood Crypt
• 1x Cascade Bluffs
• 1x City of Brass
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Dragonskull Summit
• 1x Drowned Catacomb
• 1x Evolving Wilds
• 1x Graven Cairns
• 1x Grixis Panorama
• 4x Island
• 4x Mountain
• 1x Myriad Landscape
• 1x River of Tears
• 1x Shivan Reef
• 1x Steam Vents
• 1x Sulfur Falls
• 1x Sulfurous Springs
• 1x Sunken Ruins
• 7x Swamp
• 1x Terramorphic Expanse
• 1x Underground River
• 1x Watery Grave

Ramp (8)

• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Dark Ritual
• 1x Mana VaultGC
• 1x Nightscape Familiar
• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Talisman of Creativity
• 1x Talisman of Dominance
• 1x Talisman of Indulgence

Big Baddies (16)

• 1x Combustible Gearhulk
• 1x Drakuseth, Maw of Flames
• 1x Grave Titan
• 1x Hellkite Courser
• 1x Inferno Titan
• 1x Kederekt Leviathan
• 1x Massacre Wurm
• 1x Nicol Bolas
• 1x Pathrazer of Ulamog
• 1x Puppeteer Clique
• 1x Rune-Scarred Demon
• 1x Sphinx Ambassador
• 1x Stormtide Leviathan
• 1x Trench Gorger
• 1x Utvara Hellkite
• 1x Zara, Renegade Recruiter

Reanimation (13)

• 1x Animate Dead
• 1x Apprentice Necromancer
• 1x Araumi of the Dead Tide
• 1x Corpse Dance
• 1x Dance of the Dead
• 1x Dread Return
• 1x Exhume
• 1x Feldon of the Third Path
• 1x Living Death
• 1x Necromancy
• 1x Reanimate
• 1x Shallow Grave
• 1x Whip of Erebos

Removal (5)

• 1x Ashes to Ashes
• 1x Fire Covenant
• 1x Go for the Throat
• 1x Terminate
• 1x Toxic Deluge

Commander (1)

Looting (15)

• 1x Buried Alive
• 1x Careful Study
• 1x Chart a Course
• 1x Dack Fayden
• 1x Entomb
• 1x Faithless Looting
• 1x Frantic Search
• 1x Glimpse the Unthinkable
• 1x Izzet Charm
• 1x Merfolk Looter
• 1x Night's Whisper
• 1x Obsessive Stitcher
• 1x Thirst for Knowledge
• 1x Thought Courier
• 1x Unfulfilled Desires

Utility (7)

• 1x Anger
• 1x Baleful Strix
• 1x Final Fortune
• 1x Flameshadow Conjuring
• 1x Lightning Greaves
• 1x Sneak Attack
• 1x Sundial of the Infinite

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This is a commander reanimator deck that uses Obeka, Brute Chronologist to take advantage of cards that would normally punish you at the end of your turn.

Normally, at the beginning of your end step, delayed abilities will go on the stack in the order that you choose. If you activate Obeka's ability after these delayed abilities are on the stack, her ability will resolve first, ending the turn and exiling all remaining abilities on the stack (that would normally hurt you).

So why use Obeka as a reanimator commander? Being able to end your turn early allows you access to a bunch of cards that allow you to sneak your big, bad creatures onto the battlefield from either your hand or the graveyard without having to sacrifice them at the end of your turn. This is fantastic because it essentially doubles the amount of reanimation spells we have access to. Let's delve into some of the synergies:

Sneak Attack - casts creatures, gives haste for R

Flameshadow Conjuring - clones a creature, gives haste for R

Corpse Dance - reanimates, gives haste, has buyback

Shallow Grave - reanimates, gives haste

Apprentice Necromancer - reanimates, gives haste

Feldon of the Third Path - clones a creature in graveyard, gives haste, recurring

Puppeteer Clique - steals creatures from opponents graveyard, gives haste, repeatable

Zara, Renegade Recruiter - steal creatures from opponent's hands, gives haste

Whip of Erebos - reanimates, gives haste, gives lifelink, recurring

These cards combined with classic reanimator cards like Animate Dead, Dance of the Dead, Reanimate, Exhume, and Dread Return provide more than enough reanimation to consistently cheat your creatures onto the battlefield every game. Cast Living Death at the right time and it's essentially game over.

So how do we get these cards in our graveyard? Looting cards like Thought Courier, Dack Fayden, Frantic Search, Izzet Charm, Careful Study, Chart a Course, Faithless Looting allow us to draw cards then discard. Obsessive Stitcher is fantastic because it can fill your graveyard and reanimate! Then there's Buried Alive and Entomb which tutor to your graveyard.

For hate/removal we run Toxic Deluge, Ashes to Ashes, Fire Covenant, Terminate, Go for the Throat, and Massacre Wurm. Massacre Wurm and Toxic Deluge are especially good when it comes to removing creatures that are hexproof or indestructible.

Other fun synergies:

Final Fortune becomes a time walk with Obeka

Date added	4 years
Last updated	4 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	12 - 0 Mythic Rares 36 - 0 Rares 25 - 0 Uncommons 12 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.55
Tokens	Copy Clone, Dragon 6/6 R, Emblem Dack Fayden, Zombie 2/2 B