Maw of the Obzedat

Creature — Thrull

Sacrifice a creature: Creatures you control get +1/+1 until end of turn.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Planechase	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (18)

Eonaut on What's Your Favorite Spooky MTG …

2 years ago

I feel as though Banewasp Affliction is quite unnerving, as are Spinal Graft, Maw of the Obzedat, and Appetite for Brains. As far as straight up creepy, Undying Evil and Hobblefiend rank pretty high for me. What about Ichorid or the original printing of Maze of Ith?

GrimlockVIII on Teysa EDH Budget

2 years ago

Carrion Feeder instead of Bloodthrone Vampire? The counters make his buffs permanent.

Maw of the Obzedat might also be a neat card to look into. He's pretty cheap, too.

kerk123 on Arcane Bishop

4 years ago

Maw of the Obzedat would be a nice piece for the combo. Pump your creatures infinite then swing until 1 creature gets through.

18ths on Five-Mizzet Re-experienced

4 years ago

Update 3:

Hadana's Climb  ^Flip replaces Forgotten Ancient - this guy synergizes with 3-4 cards in the deck. It can also do something just on it's own too, but its not anything particularly powerful, and the fact it cant be fetched by Niv is just a nail in his coffin. Climb can be enabled by some counters cards, triggers Daxos and then helps push his enormous tokens (or flying double striking Kalemne) at opponents faces. It's also yet another way to fix mana. (albeit slow)

Marchesa's Smuggler replaces Jhoira of the Ghitu - Jhoira was meant as a good cheap Izzet creature that can be also useful later. She ticks all these boxes but... it turns out proper sequencing is very important in this deck and suspend is straight opposite to that. Also she needs cards that would be powerful on completely empty board, because in 4 turns the situation can be vastly different. Smuggler also ticks those boxes, but giving haste and unblockable without the need to tap, even if the cost is quite high, can be game changing in this deck.

Maw of the Obzedat replaces Mycoloth - Mycoloth is a huge red flag to our opponents, even those with poor threat assessment. It also have to wait an entire turn to actually do something. And to be honest - I yet have to see this card actually untap. There are also a lot of token producers, we need some payoffs too. Maw is more subtle, and can do its stuff on the turn it hits the board, is a free sac engine and can save the most important creatures from damage based board wipes.

Expansion / Explosion replaces Secure the Wastes - StW is a very good spell but I found it to be suprisingly situational. It gets really good only with Mizzix on board. Without her, there are more exciting things to do with 6-12 mana than getting some 1/1s that barely affects the board. On the other hand, both modes of Expansion / Explosion are crazy. Expansion can be used as a counter-counterspell without even using blue and copy crazy amount of EDH staples - ramp, removal, tutors - you name it. Explosion also gives us a wincon to decks that are resilient against token strategies. When behind, can also be used as a very expensive draw AND removal.

squadcarxmar on

4 years ago

I don't know how much you want but I'm going to recommend some cards as a Teysa, Orzhov Scion fan.

Planar Cleansing or Hour of Revelation is great in EDH to start the board over all over again. Merciless Eviction is something you should definitely keep in the deck by the way.

Anointed Procession is really good for doubling up on token effects. Requiem Angel and Field of Souls can be really nice too. Army of the Damned can provide a lot of bodies to work with. I've won with Army of the Damned and Maw of the Obzedat before. Storm Herd is an absolute beast too.

Two artifacts that you should consider are Ashnod's Altar and Phyrexian Altar . These can let you go infinite if you also get a Darkest Hour or a Painter's Servant . I have a Darkest Hour in mine, can't justify the price of the Painter's Servant yet. Either way both of those Altars are great with or without going infinite.

Illusionist's Bracers are great on Teysa, Orzhov Scion and Maw of the Obzedat should you include one as well. Three tokens to exile two creatures? Yes, please. In theory, if you have a Maw with the Bracers out and you Storm Herd at 40 life, you can sacrifice 5 of them and have 35 11/11 flying pegasus. Great card, I think it's underrated.

Also consider getting gravepact and/or Dictate of Erebos and maybe a Martyr's Bond too. You may not exile creatures with Teysa when they're out because of the way the stack works and if you sacrifice three creatures they'll sacrifice theirs before Teysa can exile it, but it's extremely good to keep your creatures out and have everyone else open.

MrFuzzykenz on Tokenz for Dayz

4 years ago

squadcarxmar Thanks for the advice these card idea are great for this deck! the cards I really want are defiantly going to be Anointed Procession and Teysa, Orzhov Scion because those interactions are to great. Maw of the Obzedat seems alright however, my friend game me Phyrexian Altar which I think will be a great replacement. All I need is card draw.

squadcarxmar on Tokenz for Dayz

4 years ago

Sorry for double comment but wanted to also recommend Maw of the Obzedat which has won me plenty of games. Great when you generate tons of tokens especially with Storm Herd or Army of the Damned . And if you have Teysa, Orzhov Scion + Teysa Karlov with or without Anointed Procession ? You've won the game with 4-5 cards without going infinite. Example, if you had Army and those 4 other cards you could have 20 32/32 Zombies and if they die in combat you'll get 4 Spirits in their place.

rdbaron102 on Teysa aristocrats is almost done! …

4 years ago

I would take out the following. Maw of the Obzedat Endrek Sahr, Master Breeder Whisper, Blood Liturgist Crypt Ghast Xathrid Necromancer Flesh Carver Deathgreeter Elixir of Immortality Treasure Map  ^Flip Well of Lost Dreams Death Grasp If you really want an effect like that of Whisper, Blood Liturgist , I would use Hell's Caretaker , it just seems to work better during game play.