Identity thief Obeka combo?

Asked by brotherkoda 4 years ago

Ok so I am trying to do a thing with Obeka, Brute Chronologist and Identity Thief it’s my understanding that I can on attack exile and copy with thief then end turn with obeka... my question is the following turn is identity thief no longer able to do this. meaning identity thief is permanently the new card, and can no longer exile and clone new things due to him still being a clone? Or does he retain all previous abilities. Meaning he can become a beast of a card exiling and copying things over and over

Thanks in advance

Rhadamanthus says... Accepted answer #1

You can get the result you want. The card will stay in exile and Identity Thief will be ready to do the trick again.

The End Phase of the turn has two steps: the end step and the cleanup step. Using an "end the turn" effect skips straight to the cleanup step of the current turn, and that's when "until end of turn" effects wear off. In your example:

• Wait until the end step begins. The delayed trigger from Identity Thief ("Return the exiled card...at the beginning of the next end step") is put onto the stack
• Respond by activating Obeka, Brute Chronologist . As that ability resolves, the delayed trigger from Identity Thief gets exiled without resolving (meaning the card stays in exile) and the game moves to the cleanup step
• The "until end of turn" part of Identity Thief's ability ends and it goes back to being itself with all its written abilities

May 12, 2021 10:45 a.m.