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Obeka, Brute Chronologist

Legendary Creature — Ogre Wizard

{T}: The player whose turn it is may end the turn. (Exile all spells and abilities from the stack. The player whose turn it is discards down to their maximum hand size. Damage wears off, and "this turn" and "until end of turn" effects end.)

CMC
4
Mana cost
{1}{U}{B}{R}
Color identity
BRU
Rarity
mythic
Set
Secret Lair Drop
Price
—
EDHREC rank
#7641
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Obeka, Brute Chronologist card art
Obeka, Brute Chronologist lets you end your turn on command, which means any end-step trigger that would exile or punish you never fires — the cost is a three-mana 3/3 with no evasion that opponents will prioritize killing the moment they understand what she does. She turns Isochron Scepter loops and Sedris, the Traitor King's unearth recursion from conditional to perpetual, and that upside is real enough to build around.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Sedris, the Traitor King

Sedris, the Traitor King

63.3% of decks · synergy 0.61

Sedris, the Traitor King's unearth clause exiles the creature at the next end step — Obeka, Brute Chronologist erases that clause entirely, letting you reuse the same unearthed creature every turn indefinitely and converting a tempo tool into a full recursion engine.

02
Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist

22.1% of decks · synergy 0.20

Inalla, Archmage Ritualist generates token copies that exile at end of turn, and Obeka, Brute Chronologist short-circuits that sacrifice requirement, letting token Wizards persist and compound instead of disappearing the moment they've done their work.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern not legal
pioneer not legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Commander is the only format where Obeka, Brute Chronologist matters, and even there she's a build-around rather than a staple — her ability does nothing without end-step triggers worth protecting. In Legacy and Vintage she's technically legal but the effect isn't remotely close to the power level those formats demand. Oathbreaker is the one other format where she could lead a shell, though the smaller deck size and faster games compress her window considerably.

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Current pricing data for Obeka, Brute Chronologist isn't available in this snapshot, so check Scryfall or TCGPlayer for a live number before buying. Given that she's a niche commander with a specific build requirement rather than a broad staple, expect her to sit in the budget-to-mid range unless a breakout combo brings renewed demand.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.