Obzedat, Ghost Council + Trickbind
Asked by gurthang034 9 years ago
in an EDH commander game, can an Obzedat, Ghost Council commander be permanently exiled if its owner chooses to exile it at the end of turn and an opponent Trickbind s the triggered ability?
I understand an exiled commander may be returned to the command zone via replacement effects. but a friend of mine has been trying to exile my obzedat (in good humor) every time i play my deck.
gurthang034 says... #2
So for clarification, at the end of my turn i can choose to exile obzedat and place it into my command zone by the replacement effect. The delayed trigger will occur at the beginning of my next upkeep i can return it the battlefield from my command zone. If trickbind is used it will only place obzedat back into the command zone.
October 27, 2014 12:07 p.m.
Rhadamanthus says... #3
He'll stay in the command zone if trickbind is used, not "go back", but yes. That's how it works.
Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1
Yes, that trick works. The delayed trigger ("...at the beginning of your next upkeep") only triggers once. If it's countered, it won't trigger again.
However, there's a way to protect yourself from this. Because moving a commander to the command zone is a replacement effect, you can put Obzedat, Ghost Council into the command zone instead of exile at the end of the turn, and the delayed trigger will return it from the command zone later, as long as it doesn't change zones again before that. An effect that moves an object will track it to the first zone it moves to, and the replacement effect makes that zone the command zone. This won't increase the "commander tax" counter, because that's based off of casting from the command zone.
October 27, 2014 11:56 a.m.