# Strategy Specifications
## Deck Name And Archetype

- Strategy name: Obeka Brute End Turn.
- Registered commander: Obeka, Brute Chronologist.
- Format validation: Commander is the active format, the registered main deck has exactly 100 cards including the commander, and the singleton rule is satisfied outside the basic lands Island, Swamp, and Mountain.
- Sideboard validation: the Veles policy sideboard has exactly 10 registered cards, matching the active validation contract for this strategy version.
- Color identity and mana shell: the deck is Grixis, using blue, black, and red sources from Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, Path of Ancestry, Xander's Lounge, the multiplayer dual cycle, shock lands, original dual lands, fetch lands, filter lands, pathway lands, channel lands, Reliquary Tower, Island, Swamp, and Mountain, plus artifact acceleration from Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, and the three Talismans.
- Archetype label: this is a rogue Commander engine deck, not a stock control, combo, reanimator, or theft list; its distinctive plan is to exploit turn-ending effects with delayed triggers, temporary control, temporary tokens, extra-turn-loss triggers, and end-step exile avoidance.
- Mechanic tags: end the turn, delayed triggers, temporary control, extra turns, end-step exile avoidance, edge-case, draft-only.
- Stock / rogue / hybrid status: treat the list as rogue-hybrid for gameplay routing, because it borrows known Commander staples and Grixis interaction but asks the pilot to make deck-specific timing decisions around Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Glorious End, Time Stop, Discontinuity, Final Fortune, Last Chance, Sneak Attack, Corpse Dance, Goryo's Vengeance, Shallow Grave, Whip of Erebos, and temporary-copy engines.
- Primary role identity: the deck is an end-the-turn abuse engine that wants a payoff creature, temporary access effect, delayed trigger, or extra-turn spell to be made favorable by ending the turn at the correct point.
- Secondary role identity: the deck can play Grixis value-control with Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, efficient interaction, tutors, reanimation, and large creature pressure when the turn-ending engine is not assembled.
- Legality concern: the registered list passes the supplied format-aware deck validation, but runtime play quality still depends on the rules engine surfacing end-the-turn choices, delayed-trigger cleanup decisions, temporary-control cleanup, and extra-turn loss-trigger handling as explicit legal actions.
- Support concern: Veles must not assume that ending the turn is legal or strategically correct without checking the current priority window, stack state, active player, trigger timing, and whether the action text presented by the rules engine actually matches Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Glorious End, Time Stop, or Discontinuity.
- Mana concern: the deck has powerful fixing but meaningful color pressure, because early black enables Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Feed the Swarm, and Terminate; early blue protects the engine with Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Stifle, and Tale's End; and red is needed for Sneak Attack, Feldon of the Third Path, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Final Fortune, Last Chance, and major threat deployment.
- Role concern: Obeka, Brute Chronologist is both an engine card and a fragile commander, so command-zone tax, recast timing, haste/protection equipment, and whether ending the turn benefits the opponent must be evaluated before committing the commander to the battlefield.
- Opponent information status: no user-supplied metagame or reflection concerns are available, so later matchup and policy sections must rely on visible battlefield, stack, graveyard, exile, known revealed cards, commander identities, public deck-archetype signals, and rules-engine legal actions rather than hidden-hand assumptions.
- Policy naming constraint: later Veles policy `Cards:` fields may name only exact registered main-deck or sideboard cards from this strategy version; opponent-only examples must either be prose outside `Cards:` fields or be explicitly prefixed with `opponent:` when the policy schema permits opponent examples.

## Thesis

- Priority: assemble an end-the-turn abuse position where Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, Time Stop, or Glorious End converts a delayed downside into a kept resource, a protected turn, or a lethal tempo swing.
- Core plan: pair a temporary-access effect such as Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Feldon of the Third Path, Mimic Vat, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, or Sedris, the Traitor King with a high-impact body, then end the turn only when the rules-engine legal action makes the delayed cleanup unfavorable for opponents and favorable for this deck.
- Win condition: keep or repeatedly access explosive creatures, copied creatures, stolen creatures, or reanimated creatures long enough for Etali, Primal Storm, Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Flayer of the Hatebound, Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, and Professional Face-Breaker to generate board, cards, mana, damage, or combat pressure.
- Extra-turn plan: Final Fortune and Last Chance are not generic ramp turns; cast them only when the deck can win, stabilize decisively, or answer the delayed loss trigger through a legal turn-ending or trigger-answer line.
- Control plan: when the engine is not assembled, play Grixis value-control with Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, tutors, cheap counters, spot removal, and reanimation until a payoff window opens.
- What this deck is not: do not pilot it as pure reanimator, pure theft, pure combo, or draw-go control; the highest-value lines are timing-dependent and often require waiting for the correct priority window rather than jamming the first powerful spell.
- Runtime caution: never assume Obeka, Brute Chronologist or Sundial of the Infinite can erase a drawback unless the visible stack, turn step, active player, and rules-engine legal action confirm the line.

## Role Package

- Threats: Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Flayer of the Hatebound, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, and Sedris, the Traitor King are the main pressure cards; prefer committing them when they create value before removal or can be paired with temporary-access cleanup avoidance.
- Payoffs: Obeka, Brute Chronologist and Sundial of the Infinite are the defining payoffs; Discontinuity, Time Stop, Glorious End, Stifle, and Tale's End are stack/turn tools that can convert dangerous triggers, opposing interaction, or extra-turn risks into manageable decisions when legal.
- Temporary-access engines: Sneak Attack, Feldon of the Third Path, Mimic Vat, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, and Sedris, the Traitor King turn graveyard or hand resources into short-window threats; prioritize them when an end-the-turn card, haste/protection, or immediate trigger makes the temporary body matter.
- Copy engines: Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, Strionic Resonator, and Lithoform Engine scale enter-the-battlefield, attack, death, or trigger-based payoffs; do not expose these engines into obvious removal unless the current turn creates value or protection is available.
- Velocity: Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Entomb, Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, Baleful Strix, Faerie Mastermind, Professional Face-Breaker, Solemn Simulacrum, and Path of Ancestry keep the deck from relying on commander-only draws.
- Interaction: Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Stifle, Tale's End, Chaos Warp, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Cyclonic Rift, Dauthi Voidwalker, Opposition Agent, and Otawara, Soaring City protect the engine, stop faster combo turns, or clear hate pieces.
- Protection: Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots are priority equipment for Obeka, Brute Chronologist and fragile engines; protect the commander before planning a line that requires tapping Obeka.
- Recursion: Reanimate and Animate Dead are efficient permanent reanimation; Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, and Sedris, the Traitor King are higher-risk because their cleanup text must be tracked exactly.
- Mana: Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Indulgence, Talisman of Creativity, Fellwar Stone, Command Tower, Exotic Orchard, Xander's Lounge, fetch lands, dual lands, filter lands, pathway lands, channel lands, and basics support a color-hungry Grixis curve; preserve early black for tutors/reanimation, early blue for protection, and red for temporary-access engines.
- Sideboard module: Dress Down, Grafdigger's Cage, Dauthi Voidwalker, Opposition Agent, Abrade, Rakdos Charm, Bedevil, Thoughtseize, Mindbreak Trap, and Feed the Swarm let Veles tune against graveyards, creature text, artifacts, enchantments, stack combo, tutors, and resilient permanents without changing the deck's end-the-turn thesis.

## Primary Win Conditions

- End-the-turn temporary threat conversion is the main win path: pair Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, Time Stop, or Glorious End with Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Feldon of the Third Path, Mimic Vat, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Flameshadow Conjuring, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, or Splinter Twin. Setup requires a legal temporary-access effect, a meaningful creature such as Etali, Primal Storm, Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Flayer of the Hatebound, Zealous Conscripts, Coercive Recruiter, or Solemn Simulacrum, and a verified turn-ending or trigger-answer window. Execute by taking the high-impact attack, enter-the-battlefield trigger, death trigger, copied trigger, or stolen-permanent swing first, then use the rules-engine surfaced action only if ending the turn actually prevents the unwanted delayed cleanup or loss event. Disruption to respect includes instant removal on Obeka, Brute Chronologist, artifact removal on Sundial of the Infinite, graveyard hate against recursion lines, counterspells on the temporary-access spell, and `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate` against the turn-ending spell. Prioritize this line when one turn of the creature creates lethal pressure, irreversible material, or a protected engine body; delay when the payoff is only medium value and the deck can keep drawing with Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, or The One Ring.

- Extra-turn liability conversion is the highest-ceiling kill path: Final Fortune and Last Chance should be treated as win-or-stabilize commitments, while Glorious End is both a turn-ending effect and a dangerous delayed-loss card. Setup requires either a visible deterministic kill, a legal way to handle the delayed loss trigger, or enough interaction and board presence that waiting is worse than acting. Execute by using the extra turn to attack with temporary threats, cast or copy a payoff, tutor for the missing piece with Demonic Tutor or Vampiric Tutor, or protect the stack with Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Stifle, Tale's End, or Time Stop. Disruption includes losing the turn-ending card, being forced to pass with no answer to the delayed trigger, or tapping below protection before the lethal step. Prioritize this line only when the game is closing, an opponent is about to win, or the extra turn converts a known board into lethal; do not spend it as a generic development spell.

- Copy-and-trigger snowball is the resilient fair win path: Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, Strionic Resonator, and Lithoform Engine multiply the best legal triggers from Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Flayer of the Hatebound, Solemn Simulacrum, Baleful Strix, Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, and Zara, Renegade Recruiter. Setup requires mana, a live creature or trigger worth copying, and enough protection that the engine survives long enough to matter. Execute by choosing the copy or trigger line that produces immediate cards, bodies, damage, stolen pressure, or mana through Professional Face-Breaker, then shift into combat before opponents untap. Disruption includes removal before the copied trigger resolves, creature-text suppression, graveyard denial, and blockers that make copied attackers irrelevant. Prioritize this line when the table is interactive and a single all-in delayed-trigger line is too fragile.

## Secondary Win Conditions

- Reanimation value can win without Obeka, Brute Chronologist: Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, and Takenuma, Abandoned Mire let the deck reuse Etali, Primal Storm, Sepulchral Primordial, Grave Titan, Flayer of the Hatebound, or Solemn Simulacrum. Use permanent reanimation when the body must remain; use temporary recursion when haste, a trigger, a death event, or a legal turn-ending line makes the short window profitable.

- Combat pressure closes games after one engine burst: Grave Titan, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Etali, Primal Storm, Sepulchral Primordial, Zealous Conscripts, Coercive Recruiter, and creature tokens can force lethal even when the original combo piece is removed. Attack when blockers, crackback, and known removal make the exchange favorable; hold back when life total or commander recast cost makes losing a blocker fatal.

- Theft and temporary-control pressure steals tempo from creature-heavy opponents: Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, Sepulchral Primordial, and Dauthi Voidwalker can convert opposing resources into damage or material. Prefer this line when opponents present better creatures than the deck can deploy, or when stealing a blocker opens lethal.

- Value-control wins long games through draw and protected interaction: Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, Faerie Mastermind, Baleful Strix, and Professional Face-Breaker let the deck hit land drops, hold counters, and find tutors. Preserve Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Stifle, Tale's End, Cyclonic Rift, Chaos Warp, Terminate, and Feed the Swarm for cards that stop the engine, threaten immediate loss, or break through lethal defense.

## Emergency Lines

- Behind on life: prioritize blockers, life-preserving interaction, and fast stabilization over cute delayed-trigger value. Use Baleful Strix, Solemn Simulacrum, Grave Titan, Terminate, Cyclonic Rift, Chaos Warp, Feed the Swarm, Otawara, Soaring City, and The One Ring to survive, and avoid Final Fortune, Last Chance, Black Market Connections life payments, Reanimate life loss, or Talisman damage unless the line prevents a larger loss or wins immediately.

- Behind on board: use Cyclonic Rift, Chaos Warp, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Zealous Conscripts, Coercive Recruiter, Sepulchral Primordial, and Grave Titan to reset combat math or steal tempo. If the rules engine offers an end-the-turn action during an opponent's winning turn, consider it only when it legally stops the decisive stack or combat sequence.

- Behind on cards: stop trading one-for-one unless the opposing card is lethal or engine-breaking. Lean on Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, Faerie Mastermind, Baleful Strix, Solemn Simulacrum, and tutors for recovery.

- Behind on mana: use Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Indulgence, Talisman of Creativity, Fellwar Stone, Solemn Simulacrum, treasures from Professional Face-Breaker, and fetchable color fixing before attempting color-heavy interaction chains. Do not strand protection by tapping all blue or black sources for a speculative threat.

- Engines removed or graveyards locked: pivot to hard-cast threats, copy engines, theft, and draw-control. Graveyard-dependent cards become lower priority until Dauthi Voidwalker, opposing hate, or stack conditions change.

- Win conditions removed: use Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor to find the remaining axis rather than rebuilding the same failed line. Move between end-the-turn conversion, extra-turn finish, reanimation, copy-trigger pressure, and value-control according to visible resources.

## Resource Model

- Life is a spendable buffer, not a blank check: Reanimate, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, Watery Grave, Blood Crypt, Steam Vents, Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Indulgence, and Talisman of Creativity can convert life into speed, cards, or colors. Spend life freely when it creates an engine, prevents a win, or enables a protected kill; preserve life when combat pressure makes Final Fortune, Last Chance, Reanimate, or repeated talisman damage unsafe.

- Hand size converts into timing choice: Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, Faerie Mastermind, Baleful Strix, Solemn Simulacrum, and Professional Face-Breaker let the pilot wait for protection instead of forcing a fragile Obeka, Brute Chronologist line. Do not cash tutors for generic value when the hand already has a live engine and lacks protection, mana, or a payoff.

- Mana converts into protected windows: Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Indulgence, Talisman of Creativity, Solemn Simulacrum, and Professional Face-Breaker treasure support turns that cast a threat while holding Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Stifle, Tale's End, Time Stop, or Discontinuity. A line that uses all blue sources before a delayed trigger or opposing interaction window is lower priority unless it wins immediately.

- Board presence converts into damage, blockers, and sacrifice/copy material: Grave Titan, Solemn Simulacrum, Baleful Strix, creature tokens, stolen creatures, and temporary reanimation bodies are not interchangeable. Keep deathtouch or token blockers when survival matters; convert expendable bodies into attacks, copy targets, Mimic Vat material, or Flayer of the Hatebound triggers when the visible crackback is controlled.

- Graveyard access is a second hand with exposure risk: Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Feldon of the Third Path, and Takenuma, Abandoned Mire turn the graveyard into threats and triggers. Treat opposing graveyard hate, exile replacement effects, and public Dauthi Voidwalker zones as resource denial; do not commit a temporary recursion spell unless the selected target and cleanup plan are legal and visible.

- Exile is both liability and leverage: Dauthi Voidwalker can make opposing cards usable only through the legal actions the rules engine exposes, while Mimic Vat and Whip of Erebos create exile-adjacent or exile-ending constraints that must be tracked exactly. Do not assume an exiled card can be recurred, cast, or copied unless the engine presents that action.

- Tempo is converted by ending the turn: Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Glorious End, Time Stop, and Discontinuity can stop a cleanup, combat, stack, or delayed-trigger problem only when the rules engine exposes the legal timing. Use tempo defensively to stop lethal or offensively to keep temporary creatures, dodge sacrifice/exile cleanup, or survive extra-turn loss triggers.

- Information converts into target discipline: Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, Faerie Mastermind, tutors, and public zones should shape which opponent is pressured or protected against. Sideboard bullets Dress Down, Grafdigger's Cage, Dauthi Voidwalker, Opposition Agent, Abrade, Rakdos Charm, Bedevil, Thoughtseize, Mindbreak Trap, and Feed the Swarm convert pregame slots into narrower answers; choose them for the matchup axis, not as generic card-count upgrades.

## Mana Guide

- Keep hands with three usable mana sources or two mana sources plus Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Indulgence, or Talisman of Creativity. A keep should normally produce blue and black by turn two or three, and red by the turn Sneak Attack, Feldon of the Third Path, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, or Coercive Recruiter matters.

- Prioritize early blue for stack discipline: Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Stifle, Tale's End, Cyclonic Rift, Time Stop, Discontinuity, Mystic Remora, Rhystic Study, Faerie Mastermind, and Obeka, Brute Chronologist all reward untapped blue access. Do not spend the only blue source on a speculative main-phase play when an opponent can win or remove the engine before the next turn.

- Prioritize early black for setup and recovery: Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Feed the Swarm, Terminate, Dauthi Voidwalker, Opposition Agent, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, and Takenuma, Abandoned Mire need black access at different points. Sequence black sources before red-only pressure when the hand contains graveyard setup or removal.

- Build red after stability unless the hand is engine-heavy: Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Feldon of the Third Path, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Flameshadow Conjuring, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Professional Face-Breaker, Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, Chaos Warp, Final Fortune, Last Chance, and Glorious End require red to turn resources into kills. Red is urgent when the hand already has payoff creatures or extra-turn commitments.

- Fetch and shock sequencing should preserve current-turn legality first and future protection second. Polluted Delta, Bloodstained Mire, Scalding Tarn, and Marsh Flats should find the color pair that fixes the hand’s missing action, commonly Watery Grave, Blood Crypt, Steam Vents, Underground Sea, Badlands, Volcanic Island, Xander's Lounge, Island, Swamp, or Mountain if legal under card-reference metadata. Use tapped Xander's Lounge only when the turn does not require immediate one-mana interaction.

- Utility and conditional lands need timing respect: Path of Ancestry, Drowned Catacomb, Dragonskull Summit, Sulfur Falls, Shipwreck Marsh, Haunted Ridge, Stormcarved Coast, Clearwater Pathway, Blightstep Pathway, Riverglide Pathway, Sunken Ruins, Graven Cairns, Cascade Bluffs, Otawara, Soaring City, Takenuma, Abandoned Mire, Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance, and Reliquary Tower should be sequenced around exact available colors. Choose Pathway faces by the hand’s missing color, not by abstract balance.

- Play lands before draw when the spell or ability needs a land drop to cast follow-up interaction, pay commander tax, or hold protection after The One Ring, Baleful Strix, Faerie Mastermind, or a tutor. Delay the land drop until after draw when all current plays are legal and the unknown card could change whether the turn needs blue protection, black recursion, red engine mana, or a fetchable untapped source.

## Mulligan Guide

- Strong keep: keep three mana sources plus Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Indulgence, or Talisman of Creativity when the hand also has Obeka, Brute Chronologist access, Sundial of the Infinite, Sneak Attack, Entomb plus Reanimate, or a tutor. Prefer hands that can produce blue early and reach black/red without spending the whole turn cycle shields-down.

- Strong engine keep: keep Command Tower, Watery Grave, Sol Ring, Sneak Attack, Grave Titan, Swan Song, and any third land because it curves acceleration into a protected temporary-threat line. Keep similar hands with Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Feldon of the Third Path, Mimic Vat, or Whip of Erebos if the mana already supports the active colors.

- Medium keep: keep two lands plus a two-mana rock and one setup card such as Mystic Remora, Rhystic Study, Baleful Strix, Faerie Mastermind, Entomb, Demonic Tutor, or Vampiric Tutor. This hand is acceptable if it can cast a turn-two play and has a credible path to Obeka, Brute Chronologist or Sundial of the Infinite before delayed triggers become risky.

- Risky keep: keep a one-land Sol Ring hand only when the land casts a rock or draw spell and the hand contains at least one cheap stabilizer such as Baleful Strix, Swan Song, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Stifle, or Tale's End. Ship if the hand needs a second colored source before doing anything meaningful.

- Automatic ship: ship zero-land, one-land no-rock, seven-mana-threat piles, and hands that contain Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, Time Stop, or Discontinuity without early mana and a visible plan to survive the delayed or stack consequences. Also ship hands with only red engines and no red source, or only black recursion with no graveyard setup and no black source.

- Matchup-dependent keep: keep Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, Counterspell, Fierce Guardianship, Swan Song, Stifle, or Tale's End higher against search-heavy, graveyard, storm, or commander-trigger tables. Against creature pressure, value Baleful Strix, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Chaos Warp, Cyclonic Rift, and early blockers over slow card draw.

- Play/draw adjustment: on the play, prioritize Sol Ring, two-mana rocks, Mystic Remora, and protected Obeka, Brute Chronologist starts; on the draw, a slower hand with Rhystic Study, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, or Baleful Strix is more keepable if it has interaction. Do not keep a draw-dependent hand that folds to a single missed land drop.

- Trap hand: do not keep Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, Etali, Primal Storm, Sepulchral Primordial, Grave Titan, and two lands just because the ceiling is high. This deck wins by setting a legal end-the-turn or recursion window first, not by hoping large spells become safe later.

## Turn Arc

- Turn 1: play an untapped source that enables Sol Ring, Mystic Remora, Vampiric Tutor, Entomb, Swan Song, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Stifle, or Dauthi Voidwalker if available. Prefer Command Tower, Underground Sea, Volcanic Island, Badlands, Watery Grave, Blood Crypt, Steam Vents, Polluted Delta, Bloodstained Mire, Scalding Tarn, or Marsh Flats when they make the hand functional; use Xander's Lounge tapped only when no turn-one spell matters.

- Turn 1 deviation: use Vampiric Tutor or Entomb only when the next turn has a concrete use for the card found. Entomb for Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Flayer of the Hatebound, or a reanimation target is strong only if Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, or Sedris, the Traitor King is already live or likely.

- Turn 2: develop mana or card flow before exposing fragile engines. Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Indulgence, Talisman of Creativity, Baleful Strix, Faerie Mastermind, Dauthi Voidwalker, Opposition Agent, Mystic Remora payments, and Rhystic Study are preferred unless removal or counter mana must stay open.

- Turn 3: cast Obeka, Brute Chronologist when she can matter immediately or be protected by Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Swan Song, Counterspell, Fierce Guardianship, Stifle, Tale's End, or An Offer You Can't Refuse. If Obeka is unsafe, build Sundial of the Infinite, Sneak Attack, Mimic Vat, Feldon of the Third Path, Whip of Erebos, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, or The One Ring instead.

- Turns 4-5: commit a payoff only when the cleanup plan is legal, visible, and timed. Sneak Attack, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Feldon of the Third Path, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Sedris, the Traitor King, Flameshadow Conjuring, Splinter Twin, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, and Mimic Vat should pair with Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, Time Stop, Glorious End, Stifle, or Tale's End only through actions the rules engine exposes.

- Turns 4-5 deviation: spend Chaos Warp, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Cyclonic Rift, Counterspell, Swan Song, Fierce Guardianship, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Stifle, or Tale's End before advancing if a visible permanent, spell, trigger, or commander line stops the engine or kills you. Do not tap out for a threat when one held interaction spell preserves both survival and the next end-the-turn window.

- Late game: shift from setup to protected conversion. Tutor for the missing piece among Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Sneak Attack, a recursion spell, a payoff creature, or stack protection; then execute in the same turn cycle when possible. Extra-turn cards Final Fortune and Last Chance are finishers or emergency bridges, while Glorious End, Time Stop, and Discontinuity are stack/turn tools that require exact visible timing.

## Card Roles

Obeka, Brute Chronologist is the deck's commander and the primary rules-pressure card: use her to end the turn only when the engine has exposed a legal activated ability and the stack/turn structure makes ending the turn beneficial. Treat Sundial of the Infinite as the backup end-the-turn engine, and never assume either card removes an obligation unless the rules engine shows the delayed trigger or turn-ending choice.

Temporary-threat engines are the main conversion package. Sneak Attack, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Feldon of the Third Path, Mimic Vat, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, and Sedris, the Traitor King turn one card into a short-lived threat; the pilot's job is to decide whether to cash in the trigger, end the turn before cleanup, or let the object go because interaction or mana makes the window unsafe.

Large creatures are payoff bodies, not random curve toppers. Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Flayer of the Hatebound, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Coercive Recruiter, and Zealous Conscripts are strongest when cheated, copied, reanimated, or kept past an end-step trigger; hard-cast them only when mana, protection, and board state justify exposing the turn.

Cheap permanents buy time and information. Baleful Strix, Faerie Mastermind, Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, Professional Face-Breaker, Solemn Simulacrum, Mystic Remora, Rhystic Study, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, and The One Ring either slow opponents, build mana/cards, or create treasure/card velocity for a protected combo turn.

Interaction protects the end-the-turn window first. Stifle, Tale's End, Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Glorious End, Time Stop, Discontinuity, Chaos Warp, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, and Cyclonic Rift should answer lethal pressure, opposing `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, commander-stopping pieces, and punishing delayed triggers before they answer ordinary value.

Tutors and graveyard setup must produce executable lines. Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and Entomb should find the missing engine, payoff, recursion spell, or stack shield that can be used with visible mana; Reanimate and Animate Dead are efficient only when the graveyard target and life/timing risks are already acceptable.

Mana rocks and lands should preserve blue interaction while enabling red engines and black recursion. Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Fellwar Stone, the three Talismans, premium duals, fetch lands, filter lands, pathways, channel lands, and Reliquary Tower are not neutral resources here: sequence them so Obeka, Brute Chronologist, counters, and red/black activation turns can coexist.

### Card Hover Notes


#### Obeka, Brute Chronologist
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, commander/core piece.
- Role type: engine, commander, priority tool.
- Deck-specific job: tap to have the player whose turn it is end the turn, mainly to exile stack objects and skip delayed end-step cleanup after temporary-control, reanimation, extra-turn, or token-copy effects when the rules engine exposes the legal action.
- Timing: cast from command zone when protection or immediate use exists; account for commander tax after each command-zone recast and avoid recasting into a board where she cannot survive or tap.
- Inputs / outputs: input is a legal activated ability with Obeka untapped and the active player choosing to end the turn; output is turn ending according to engine rules, not guessed trigger deletion.
- Partners / packages: Sundial of the Infinite; Sneak Attack; Final Fortune; Last Chance; Glorious End; Goryo's Vengeance; Corpse Dance; Shallow Grave; Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker; Splinter Twin; Flameshadow Conjuring; Mimic Vat.
- Failure modes: summoning sickness, removal before tap, opponent refusing if it is their turn, ending before beneficial triggers resolve, or assuming commander tax is optional.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, keep Obeka command-zone recast and commander-tax timing visible, use her tap ability only for a real cleanup or survival window, and avoid low-benefit activations.

- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.

#### Sundial of the Infinite
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, core piece.
- Role type: engine, artifact, priority tool.
- Deck-specific job: end your turn to clear stack/delayed cleanup from temporary threats or extra-turn loss windows when legal.
- Timing: hold activation until the unwanted trigger or stack object is visible, unless ending the turn now is required for survival.
- Inputs / outputs: costs one generic mana and tap; output follows engine end-the-turn handling.
- Partners / packages: Obeka, Brute Chronologist; Final Fortune; Last Chance; Glorious End; Sneak Attack; Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker.
- Failure modes: cannot end opponents' turns, cannot activate while tapped, and can strand your own unresolved beneficial triggers.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, treat this as backup Obeka timing: preserve activation mana, wait for the visible trigger or stack object, and keep commander-tax cleanup lines safe.

- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.

#### Sneak Attack
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, core piece.
- Role type: engine, red activation.
- Deck-specific job: put a creature card from hand onto battlefield with haste for a one-turn attack/ETB line, then use Obeka, Brute Chronologist or Sundial of the Infinite only if the sacrifice trigger is visible and worth avoiding.
- Timing: activate after protection and attackers are planned; prefer Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Flayer of the Hatebound, or Zealous Conscripts over low-impact bodies.
- Failure modes: committing into removal without an end-turn outlet or using it before combat math is known.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Ilharg, the Raze-Boar
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, payoff/engine creature.
- Role type: attack trigger, temporary threat enabler.
- Deck-specific job: put a creature from hand onto battlefield tapped and attacking, then return that creature to hand at end of combat unless another legal turn-ending line changes the turn.
- Timing: attack only into board states where Ilharg survives or the trigger wins enough tempo.
- Failure modes: forcing poor attacks, losing Ilharg before combat, or assuming the put-in creature stays without an exposed rules path.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Feldon of the Third Path
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, recursion engine.
- Role type: activated token maker.
- Deck-specific job: copy a creature card in your graveyard as an artifact creature token with haste and a delayed sacrifice trigger.
- Timing: activate after the graveyard target is chosen by board need; pair with end-turn effects only when preserving the token matters more than keeping mana open.
- Failure modes: targeting a low-impact creature, losing Feldon before activation, or sacrificing mana shields for a nonlethal token.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Mimic Vat
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, recursion/token engine.
- Role type: artifact, imprint engine.
- Deck-specific job: imprint a nontoken creature that dies, then create hasty token copies with exile-at-end-step cleanup.
- Timing: prioritize enemy bombs, Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, or Zealous Conscripts when deaths occur.
- Failure modes: imprinting the wrong creature when a better death is imminent or activating without an end-step plan.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, copy engine.
- Role type: activated token maker.
- Deck-specific job: copy a nonlegendary creature you control with haste and a delayed sacrifice trigger.
- Timing: copy Grave Titan, Solemn Simulacrum, Baleful Strix, Professional Face-Breaker, Coercive Recruiter, or Zealous Conscripts when legal and tactically useful.
- Failure modes: cannot copy legendary creatures; do not target illegal legendary payoffs or tap into instant-speed removal without need.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Splinter Twin
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, aura engine.
- Role type: enchanted-creature activation.
- Deck-specific job: give enchanted creature a tap ability that creates a token copy with haste and delayed sacrifice.
- Timing: enchant a creature that can survive a turn cycle or immediately use haste granted by other effects if legal.
- Failure modes: aura blowout, enchanting a low-impact creature, or ignoring summoning sickness.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Flameshadow Conjuring
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, ETB copy engine.
- Role type: triggered token maker.
- Deck-specific job: pay red when a nontoken creature enters under your control to make a hasty token copy exiled at end step.
- Timing: reserve red mana on turns casting or reanimating Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Flayer of the Hatebound, or Solemn Simulacrum.
- Failure modes: spending red mana before the best trigger or copying a creature with no immediate impact.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, red cheat engine.
- Role type: haste/temporary creature access.
- Deck-specific job: give other creatures haste and put a red or artifact creature from hand onto battlefield, sacrificing it at the next end step.
- Timing: use for Etali, Primal Storm, Solemn Simulacrum, artifact creatures, and red creatures when the sacrifice can be accepted or answered.
- Failure modes: assuming every creature qualifies for the activated ability; validate color/artifact legality.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Zara, Renegade Recruiter
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, attack payoff.
- Role type: temporary theft from opponent hand.
- Deck-specific job: attack to look at defending player's hand and put a creature from it onto battlefield tapped and attacking, returning it to hand at end of combat.
- Timing: attack players likely to hold creatures and when Zara can survive or the trigger is worth the risk.
- Failure modes: no creature in hand, poor attack, or overvaluing unknown hidden information.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Goryo's Vengeance
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, recursion burst.
- Role type: instant reanimation with delayed exile.
- Deck-specific job: return a legendary creature card from graveyard to battlefield with haste, then exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
- Timing: use on Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Etali, Primal Storm, or other legal legendary targets only with a reason for the short window.
- Failure modes: targeting nonlegendary cards or missing the delayed exile window.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Corpse Dance
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, recursion burst.
- Role type: instant buyback/reanimation.
- Deck-specific job: return the top creature card of your graveyard with haste and exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
- Timing: manage graveyard order if the engine exposes it; use buyback only when mana surplus matters less than repeatability.
- Mode map: normal cast uses the card once; buyback pays the additional cost to return Corpse Dance to hand as it resolves.
- Failure modes: wrong top creature, graveyard disruption, or paying buyback when protection mana is needed.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Shallow Grave
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, recursion burst.
- Role type: instant reanimation.
- Deck-specific job: return the top creature card of your graveyard to battlefield with haste and exile it at the beginning of the next end step.
- Timing: cast after arranging the top graveyard creature or when the current top creature is already the payoff.
- Failure modes: wrong graveyard order or assuming it can choose any creature card.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Apprentice Necromancer
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, creature recursion engine.
- Role type: activated sacrifice reanimation.
- Deck-specific job: sacrifice it to return target creature card from graveyard with haste and delayed sacrifice at end step.
- Timing: deploy when it can untap or when haste/protection lets activation resolve soon.
- Failure modes: losing it before activation, exposing the graveyard target, or reanimating without cleanup plan.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Whip of Erebos
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, lifelink and recursion engine.
- Role type: activated graveyard access.
- Deck-specific job: give creatures lifelink and return a creature card from graveyard for a one-turn line that is exiled if it would leave or at next end step.
- Timing: activate as a sorcery per card text; use lifelink to stabilize races.
- Failure modes: cannot surprise at instant speed and exile replacement can conflict with reuse plans.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Sedris, the Traitor King
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, recursion engine creature.
- Role type: unearth enabler.
- Deck-specific job: give creature cards in your graveyard unearth for temporary hasty attacks/ETBs with exile cleanup.
- Timing: cast when black/red/blue mana and graveyard density support repeated activations.
- Failure modes: graveyard hate, exile replacement, or activating low-impact unearth lines.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Flayer of the Hatebound
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, damage payoff.
- Role type: graveyard-entry payoff.
- Deck-specific job: turn creatures entering from your graveyard into damage equal to their power, including itself through undying if supported by visible rules.
- Timing: prioritize with Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, or Sedris, the Traitor King.
- Failure modes: no graveyard-entry event, wrong target, or losing to removal before trigger value.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Grave Titan
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, primary payoff.
- Role type: board pressure.
- Deck-specific job: produce Zombie tokens on entry and attack, creating durable pressure even if the Titan is temporary.
- Timing: cheat, copy, or reanimate when bodies matter or lethal pressure is close.
- Failure modes: walking into exile/sweeper before token value matters.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Sepulchral Primordial
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, multiplayer payoff.
- Role type: opponent-graveyard reanimation.
- Deck-specific job: reanimate up to one creature from each opponent's graveyard under your control when it enters.
- Timing: wait until opposing graveyards contain meaningful creatures unless pressure demands a large body.
- Failure modes: empty graveyards, graveyard hate, or choosing targets without checking legal availability.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Etali, Primal Storm
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, attack payoff.
- Role type: combat value engine.
- Deck-specific job: attack to exile the top card of each player's library and cast nonlands from among them without paying mana cost when legal.
- Timing: give haste or cheat into combat only when attack trigger is likely to resolve.
- Failure modes: removal before attack, bad attacks, or assuming exiled cards are castable when engine says no.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Solemn Simulacrum
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, utility creature.
- Role type: ramp/card replacement.
- Deck-specific job: find Island, Swamp, or Mountain on entry and draw on death.
- Timing: copy/recur when mana development or sacrifice/death value matters.
- Failure modes: cannot find nonbasic lands; do not claim colors beyond registered basics.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Baleful Strix
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, defensive cantrip.
- Role type: artifact creature, deathtouch blocker.
- Deck-specific job: draw a card and deter attacks while feeding copy or artifact synergies.
- Timing: cast early against creatures or copy later for extra cards.
- Failure modes: spending it into a board where deathtouch is irrelevant and card draw is not needed.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Faerie Mastermind
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, flash card-flow creature.
- Role type: draw punisher.
- Deck-specific job: punish opponents' second card drawn each turn and offer a mana sink for each player to draw.
- Timing: flash in before an opponent's extra draw or hold up with interaction.
- Failure modes: giving opponents cards at the wrong time with the activated ability.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Opposition Agent
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, disruptive creature.
- Role type: search hate, flash.
- Deck-specific job: control an opponent while they search and exile cards they find for you to play while exiled.
- Timing: hold for fetch lands, tutors, ramp searches, and commander search effects when visible.
- Failure modes: casting as a random body when a search window is imminent.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Dauthi Voidwalker
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, graveyard hate and payoff access.
- Role type: replacement hate, evasive attacker.
- Deck-specific job: exile opponent cards with void counters and later sacrifice to play one exiled card without paying mana cost.
- Timing: deploy before graveyard engines or sacrifice when a specific exiled card changes the game.
- Failure modes: sacrificing for low impact or forgetting it affects opponents' cards only.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Professional Face-Breaker
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, combat mana/value engine.
- Role type: Treasure generation, impulse access.
- Deck-specific job: create Treasure when creatures deal combat damage to players and sacrifice Treasures to exile playable cards.
- Timing: best with hasty temporary attackers and token swarms.
- Failure modes: attacking into bad blocks just to chase Treasure.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Coercive Recruiter
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, temporary theft payoff.
- Role type: Pirate trigger.
- Deck-specific job: gain control of target creature until end of turn when it or another Pirate enters under your control, untap it, and give haste.
- Timing: use with copies or creature chains when target restrictions are legal.
- Failure modes: few Pirates in list, so treat as single-shot theft unless copied.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Zealous Conscripts
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, temporary theft payoff.
- Role type: ETB control effect.
- Deck-specific job: gain control of target permanent until end of turn, untap it, and give haste if it is a creature.
- Timing: steal blockers, commanders, planeswalkers, or combo pieces at conversion moments.
- Failure modes: targeting a permanent that does not affect combat or engine safety.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Final Fortune
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, extra-turn finisher.
- Role type: extra turn with loss trigger.
- Deck-specific job: take an extra turn after this one and lose the game at that extra turn's end step unless a legal end-the-turn/trigger answer is used.
- Timing: cast only to win, survive immediate death, or when Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Stifle, Tale's End, Discontinuity, Time Stop, or Glorious End can address the exposed loss trigger.
- Failure modes: casting without a visible answer or enough mana.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, do not cast this without Obeka, Sundial of the Infinite, Time Stop, Discontinuity, Tale's End, or Stifle ready for the cleanup plan.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.

#### Last Chance
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, extra-turn finisher.
- Role type: sorcery extra turn with loss trigger.
- Deck-specific job: take an extra turn after this one and lose at that turn's end step unless the exposed trigger is handled.
- Timing: sorcery-speed commitment; cast only with a finish or legal trigger plan.
- Failure modes: tapping out before the loss trigger answer.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Glorious End
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, emergency turn stop.
- Role type: instant end-the-turn effect with loss trigger.
- Deck-specific job: end the turn now, then create a delayed trigger that makes you lose the game at your next end step unless answered.
- Timing: use to counter lethal stacks/attacks or protect combo only with later cleanup plan.
- Failure modes: solving this turn by creating an unanswerable next-turn loss.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Time Stop
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, stack/turn answer.
- Role type: instant end-the-turn spell.
- Deck-specific job: exile stack objects and end the turn when six mana is available.
- Timing: hold for lethal attacks, decisive spells, or delayed-trigger cleanup.
- Failure modes: spending six mana on low-value tempo.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Discontinuity
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, flexible end-the-turn spell.
- Role type: instant end-the-turn spell with cost reduction on your turn.
- Deck-specific job: end the turn cheaply on your turn or at full cost otherwise.
- Timing: prefer your turn for cleanup; use opponent-turn mode only for decisive survival/stack denial.
- Failure modes: assuming reduced cost applies on opponents' turns.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Tale's End
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`.
- Role type: counterspell for activated/triggered abilities or legendary spells.
- Deck-specific job: stop loss triggers, commander/legendary spells, and key abilities.
- Timing: hold for visible triggers/spells that beat the engine.
- Failure modes: cannot counter ordinary nonlegendary spells.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Stifle
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`.
- Role type: ability counter.
- Deck-specific job: counter activated or triggered abilities, especially delayed loss/exile/sacrifice triggers.
- Timing: hold until the exact trigger/ability is on stack.
- Failure modes: cannot counter spells.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Swan Song
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, cheap protection.
- Role type: stack-only counterspell.
- Deck-specific job: counter target enchantment, instant, or sorcery spell and give its controller a 2/2 Bird token.
- Timing: use to protect engines or stop game-ending noncreature spells.
- Failure modes: cannot answer creatures, artifacts, planeswalkers, or resolved permanents.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Counterspell
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, broad stack protection.
- Role type: stack-only counterspell.
- Deck-specific job: counter a spell that stops the engine, kills you, or wins for an opponent.
- Timing: preserve double blue on commitment turns.
- Failure modes: useless against resolved permanents and abilities.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### An Offer You Can't Refuse
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, cheap stack protection.
- Role type: stack-only counterspell.
- Deck-specific job: counter a noncreature spell and give that spell's controller two Treasure tokens.
- Timing: use when the spell matters more than the Treasures.
- Failure modes: cannot counter creature spells and may accelerate the opponent.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Fierce Guardianship
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, commander-enabled protection.
- Role type: stack-only counterspell.
- Deck-specific job: counter target noncreature spell, often for no mana while Obeka, Brute Chronologist is controlled.
- Timing: protect Obeka or conversion turns.
- Failure modes: free mode requires commander controlled; cannot counter creatures.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Chaos Warp
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, universal permanent answer.
- Role type: instant removal.
- Deck-specific job: shuffle target permanent into its owner's library, then that player may reveal the top card and put it onto battlefield if it is a permanent card.
- Timing: answer must-remove permanents despite replacement risk.
- Failure modes: giving a new permanent or using on low-impact targets.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Terminate
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, creature removal.
- Role type: instant removal.
- Deck-specific job: destroy target creature; it cannot be regenerated.
- Timing: use on lethal attackers, hatebears, or commanders stopping engine lines.
- Failure modes: cannot hit noncreatures or indestructible creatures.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Feed the Swarm
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, sorcery removal.
- Role type: creature/enchantment answer.
- Deck-specific job: destroy target creature or enchantment an opponent controls and lose life equal to that permanent's mana value.
- Timing: sorcery window; use precombat when blockers or hate enchantments must clear.
- Failure modes: life loss matters and it cannot target your own permanents.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Cyclonic Rift
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, tempo reset.
- Role type: instant bounce, overload.
- Deck-specific job: return target nonland permanent you do not control, or overload to return each nonland permanent you do not control.
- Mode map: normal cast handles one permanent; overload is a table reset that changes targets/wording through rules text.
- Timing: overload before a conversion attack or use single-target mode for survival.
- Failure modes: cannot hit your permanents or lands.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Demonic Tutor
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, universal tutor.
- Role type: selection.
- Deck-specific job: search library for the missing engine, payoff, interaction, or mana piece and put it into hand.
- Timing: cast when the found card can be used soon or hidden information does not expose a slow plan.
- Failure modes: tutoring a payoff without mana/protection.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Vampiric Tutor
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, instant topdeck tutor.
- Role type: selection.
- Deck-specific job: search for a card, shuffle, put it on top, and lose 2 life.
- Timing: use before draw step or instant-speed draw when the top card is needed.
- Failure modes: vulnerable to shuffle effects and costs life/card tempo.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Entomb
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, graveyard setup.
- Role type: tutor to graveyard.
- Deck-specific job: search for a card and put it into graveyard, usually a creature for reanimation or a flashback/recursion-relevant card only if text supports it.
- Timing: cast when Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, or Sedris, the Traitor King is live.
- Failure modes: stocking graveyard into visible graveyard hate.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Reanimate
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, efficient recursion.
- Role type: sorcery reanimation.
- Deck-specific job: put target creature card from a graveyard onto battlefield under your control and lose life equal to its mana value.
- Timing: use when life loss is survivable and the creature matters immediately.
- Failure modes: dying to life loss or targeting through graveyard hate.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Animate Dead
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, aura recursion.
- Role type: enchantment reanimation.
- Deck-specific job: enchant a creature card in a graveyard and return it with Animate Dead attached, applying its printed power modifier and sacrifice link if Animate Dead leaves.
- Timing: use on durable payoff targets when enchantment removal risk is acceptable.
- Failure modes: aura removal kills the creature.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Sol Ring
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, mana resource.
- Role type: artifact ramp.
- Deck-specific job: accelerate colorless costs, rocks, engines, and commander recasts.
- Timing: cast early unless holding up one-mana interaction is more important.
- Failure modes: does not produce colored mana for Obeka or counters.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Arcane Signet
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, mana resource.
- Role type: artifact fixing.
- Deck-specific job: produce blue, black, or red because Obeka, Brute Chronologist defines commander identity.
- Timing: cast early to enable three-color sequencing.
- Failure modes: vulnerable to artifact hate.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Talisman of Dominance
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, mana resource.
- Role type: artifact fixing.
- Deck-specific job: produce colorless or blue/black with 1 damage to you for colored mana.
- Timing: deploy early, preserve blue for interaction.
- Failure modes: life loss accumulates in races.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Talisman of Indulgence
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, mana resource.
- Role type: artifact fixing.
- Deck-specific job: produce colorless or black/red with 1 damage for colored mana.
- Timing: supports recursion and red engines.
- Failure modes: no blue output.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Talisman of Creativity
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, mana resource.
- Role type: artifact fixing.
- Deck-specific job: produce colorless or blue/red with 1 damage for colored mana.
- Timing: supports Obeka, counters, and red activation turns.
- Failure modes: no black output.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Fellwar Stone
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, mana resource.
- Role type: artifact fixing.
- Deck-specific job: produce a color an opponent's land could produce.
- Timing: strong early in multiplayer, but validate available colors from visible lands.
- Failure modes: may not provide needed color.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Lightning Greaves
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, protection/haste equipment.
- Role type: equipment.
- Deck-specific job: gives equipped creature haste and shroud, protecting Obeka and enabling tap/attack lines.
- Timing: equip before exposing engines, but remember shroud blocks your own targeting/equip targeting after attached.
- Failure modes: cannot target equipped creature with your own spells/abilities.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Swiftfoot Boots
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, protection/haste equipment.
- Role type: equipment.
- Deck-specific job: gives equipped creature haste and hexproof while still allowing your own legal targeting.
- Timing: protect Obeka or a payoff before passing.
- Failure modes: equip cost can compete with interaction mana.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Strionic Resonator
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, trigger multiplier.
- Role type: artifact activated ability.
- Deck-specific job: copy target triggered ability you control, such as ETB, attack, or card-flow triggers.
- Timing: reserve two mana for Grave Titan, Etali, Primal Storm, Sepulchral Primordial, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, or draw triggers when visible.
- Failure modes: cannot copy activated abilities or opponent triggers you do not control.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Lithoform Engine
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, copy utility.
- Role type: modal activated artifact.
- Deck-specific job: copy activated/triggered abilities, instant/sorcery spells you control, or permanent spells you control depending on legal activation.
- Mode map: ability-copy mode supports Etali, Grave Titan, Obeka-adjacent triggers only if you control them; spell-copy mode supports interaction/tutors where legal; permanent-copy mode copies your permanent spell on stack.
- Timing: use only when mana surplus and copied object materially changes outcome.
- Failure modes: expensive activations and wrong object type.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Rhystic Study
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, card-flow engine.
- Role type: enchantment tax draw.
- Deck-specific job: draw unless opponents pay one as they cast spells.
- Timing: cast early when it will see many spells.
- Failure modes: low impact late if opponents can pay.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Mystic Remora
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, early draw engine.
- Role type: cumulative-upkeep enchantment.
- Deck-specific job: draw when opponents cast noncreature spells unless they pay four.
- Timing: cast early against spell-heavy tables; pay cumulative upkeep only while expected cards justify mana.
- Failure modes: overpaying upkeep instead of developing.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Phyrexian Arena
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, steady draw.
- Role type: enchantment card advantage.
- Deck-specific job: draw one extra card and lose 1 life at your upkeep.
- Timing: cast when life total is stable and game will continue.
- Failure modes: too slow under lethal pressure.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Black Market Connections
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, flexible resource engine.
- Role type: modal upkeep resource.
- Deck-specific job: choose one or more resource modes at precombat main phase trigger for Treasure, card, and/or Shapeshifter token, paying life as required.
- Mode map: Treasure mode fixes combo turns; draw mode finds action; token mode adds board pressure/blocking.
- Timing: scale choices to life total and immediate need.
- Failure modes: self-burning under pressure.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### The One Ring
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, protection/card engine.
- Role type: legendary artifact.
- Deck-specific job: gives protection from everything until your next turn when cast and taps to put burden counters/draw cards.
- Timing: cast to survive a turn cycle or refuel before combo.
- Failure modes: burden life loss grows; legendary status matters.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Command Tower
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: perfect fixing.
- Deck-specific job: produces blue, black, or red for commander-identity needs.
- Timing: prioritize when hand has mixed color costs.
- Failure modes: nonbasic hate.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Exotic Orchard
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: conditional fixing.
- Deck-specific job: produces colors opponents' lands could produce.
- Timing: check visible opponent lands before relying on a color.
- Failure modes: may not make required color.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Path of Ancestry
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: enters-tapped fixing.
- Deck-specific job: produces commander-identity colors and may scry when casting Obeka, Brute Chronologist or shared-type creatures if applicable.
- Timing: not a turn-one untapped source; sequence on low-pressure turns.
- Failure modes: tapped tempo loss.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Xander's Lounge
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: triome, cycling.
- Deck-specific job: enters tapped for blue/black/red fixing or cycles when mana flooded.
- Mode map: land mode fixes colors tapped; cycling discards it to draw a card.
- Timing: play early if tapped land is acceptable.
- Failure modes: cannot support turn-one one-mana interaction.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Morphic Pool
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: multiplayer dual.
- Deck-specific job: blue/black source that enters untapped when two or more opponents are present.
- Timing: excellent early in Commander pods.
- Failure modes: check opponent count in nonstandard games.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Luxury Suite
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: multiplayer dual.
- Deck-specific job: black/red source that usually enters untapped in Commander pods.
- Timing: supports recursion plus red engines.
- Failure modes: opponent-count dependency.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Training Center
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: multiplayer dual.
- Deck-specific job: blue/red source that usually enters untapped in Commander pods.
- Timing: supports Obeka and red engines.
- Failure modes: opponent-count dependency.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Watery Grave
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: Island Swamp shock land.
- Deck-specific job: fetchable blue/black source.
- Timing: pay 2 life only when untapped mana matters.
- Failure modes: life pressure.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Blood Crypt
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: Swamp Mountain shock land.
- Deck-specific job: fetchable black/red source.
- Timing: supports Entomb/Reanimate and red engines.
- Failure modes: life pressure.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Steam Vents
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: Island Mountain shock land.
- Deck-specific job: fetchable blue/red source.
- Timing: supports counters plus Sneak Attack-style turns.
- Failure modes: life pressure.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Underground Sea
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: Island Swamp dual.
- Deck-specific job: fetchable untapped blue/black source.
- Timing: prioritize for early interaction and recursion.
- Failure modes: nonbasic hate.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Badlands
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: Swamp Mountain dual.
- Deck-specific job: fetchable untapped black/red source.
- Timing: supports black setup and red engines.
- Failure modes: no blue output.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Volcanic Island
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: Island Mountain dual.
- Deck-specific job: fetchable untapped blue/red source.
- Timing: supports Obeka/counters plus red activations.
- Failure modes: no black output.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Polluted Delta
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic land-search utility.
- Role type: fetch land.
- Deck-specific job: pay 1 life, sacrifice, search for Island or Swamp cards among Xander's Lounge, Watery Grave, Steam Vents, Underground Sea, Volcanic Island, Blood Crypt, Badlands, Island, or Swamp as legal by type, then put it onto battlefield and shuffle.
- Timing: fetch untapped colors when immediate interaction matters.
- Failure modes: opponent: Opposition Agent effects punish searches.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Bloodstained Mire
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic land-search utility.
- Role type: fetch land.
- Deck-specific job: pay 1 life, sacrifice, search for Swamp or Mountain cards among Xander's Lounge, Watery Grave, Blood Crypt, Steam Vents, Underground Sea, Badlands, Volcanic Island, Swamp, or Mountain as legal by type, then shuffle.
- Timing: get black/red early unless blue is required through typed duals.
- Failure modes: search hate and life total.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Scalding Tarn
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic land-search utility.
- Role type: fetch land.
- Deck-specific job: pay 1 life, sacrifice, search for Island or Mountain cards among Xander's Lounge, Watery Grave, Steam Vents, Underground Sea, Volcanic Island, Blood Crypt, Badlands, Island, or Mountain as legal by type, then shuffle.
- Timing: strongest for blue/red starts.
- Failure modes: search hate and wrong typed target choice.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Marsh Flats
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic land-search utility.
- Role type: fetch land.
- Deck-specific job: pay 1 life, sacrifice, search for Plains or Swamp; this deck has no registered Plains, so practical targets are Swamp-typed lands such as Xander's Lounge, Watery Grave, Blood Crypt, Underground Sea, Badlands, or Swamp as legal.
- Timing: use for black source/fixing.
- Failure modes: cannot fetch Island-only or Mountain-only lands unless they also have Swamp/Plains type.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Drowned Catacomb
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: check land.
- Deck-specific job: blue/black source that enters untapped if you control an Island or Swamp.
- Timing: sequence after typed dual/basic when possible.
- Failure modes: tapped without enabling land.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Dragonskull Summit
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: check land.
- Deck-specific job: black/red source that enters untapped if you control a Swamp or Mountain.
- Timing: sequence after typed dual/basic.
- Failure modes: tapped early without setup.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Sulfur Falls
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: check land.
- Deck-specific job: blue/red source that enters untapped if you control an Island or Mountain.
- Timing: supports counter-plus-red turns after typed land.
- Failure modes: tapped without setup.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Shipwreck Marsh
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: slow dual.
- Deck-specific job: blue/black source that enters untapped if you control two or more other lands.
- Timing: better from turn three onward.
- Failure modes: early tapped land.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Haunted Ridge
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: slow dual.
- Deck-specific job: black/red source that enters untapped with two or more other lands.
- Timing: supports midgame recursion/engine turns.
- Failure modes: early tapped land.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Stormcarved Coast
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: slow dual.
- Deck-specific job: blue/red source that enters untapped with two or more other lands.
- Timing: good midgame protection plus red activation source.
- Failure modes: early tapped land.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Clearwater Pathway
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: modal double-faced land.
- Deck-specific job: choose blue front or black back access as it enters, then it only produces that chosen color.
- Mode map: Clearwater Pathway side provides blue; Murkwater Pathway side provides black.
- Timing: choose the color missing from the current hand.
- Failure modes: irreversible color choice.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Blightstep Pathway
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: modal double-faced land.
- Deck-specific job: choose black front or red back access as it enters.
- Mode map: Blightstep Pathway side provides black; Searstep Pathway side provides red.
- Timing: choose based on recursion versus red engine needs.
- Failure modes: irreversible color choice.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Riverglide Pathway
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: modal double-faced land.
- Deck-specific job: choose blue front or red back access as it enters.
- Mode map: Riverglide Pathway side provides blue; Lavaglide Pathway side provides red.
- Timing: choose blue if holding counters/Obeka, red if engine mana is missing.
- Failure modes: irreversible color choice.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Sunken Ruins
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: filter land.
- Deck-specific job: filters mana into blue/black combinations.
- Timing: use when another mana source starts the filter.
- Failure modes: awkward as only colored source.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Graven Cairns
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: filter land.
- Deck-specific job: filters mana into black/red combinations.
- Timing: supports black recursion plus red engines.
- Failure modes: awkward without input mana.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Cascade Bluffs
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource.
- Role type: filter land.
- Deck-specific job: filters mana into blue/red combinations.
- Timing: supports counter plus red activation turns.
- Failure modes: awkward without input mana.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Otawara, Soaring City
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource/flexible channel land.
- Role type: blue land, channel interaction.
- Deck-specific job: tap for blue or channel to return target artifact, creature, enchantment, or planeswalker to its owner's hand with legendary-cost reduction.
- Mode map: land mode supplies blue; channel mode is an uncountered-by-normal-counterspell ability that bounces listed permanent types.
- Timing: keep as land unless bounce solves a key permanent.
- Failure modes: channel discards the land and cannot hit lands.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource/graveyard channel land.
- Role type: black land, channel recursion.
- Deck-specific job: tap for black or channel to mill three, then return a creature or planeswalker card from graveyard to hand with legendary-cost reduction.
- Mode map: land mode supplies black; channel mode stocks and recovers graveyard resources.
- Timing: channel when mana is abundant and a creature recovery matters.
- Failure modes: discards land and may miss if graveyard target unavailable.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic mana resource/token channel land.
- Role type: red land, channel token maker.
- Deck-specific job: tap for red or channel to create two 1/1 colorless Spirit creature tokens with haste with legendary-cost reduction.
- Mode map: land mode supplies red; channel mode creates emergency attackers/blockers.
- Timing: channel for lethal, blockers, or Professional Face-Breaker triggers.
- Failure modes: low impact compared with land drop early.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Reliquary Tower
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, nonbasic utility land.
- Role type: colorless mana and hand-size support.
- Deck-specific job: remove maximum hand size after Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, The One Ring, and large draw bursts.
- Timing: play when colored mana is already stable.
- Failure modes: colorless source can strand colored spells.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Island
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, basic mana resource.
- Role type: basic blue source.
- Deck-specific job: cast Obeka, counters, blue card-flow, and provide typed fetch/check support.
- Timing: fetch when nonbasic hate or untapped blue matters.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Failure modes: The card is poor when it is used off-plan, into visible hate, or while commander-tax and survival pressure make the named line unsafe.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Swamp
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, basic mana resource.
- Role type: basic black source.
- Deck-specific job: cast tutors, recursion, removal, and support typed checks/fetches.
- Timing: fetch when black is missing or life must be preserved.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Failure modes: The card is poor when it is used off-plan, into visible hate, or while commander-tax and survival pressure make the named line unsafe.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Mountain
- Deck role: main deck, 1 copy, basic mana resource.
- Role type: basic red source.
- Deck-specific job: enable Sneak Attack, red engines, and red interaction while insulating from nonbasic hate.
- Timing: fetch when red is missing and life total matters.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Failure modes: The card is poor when it is used off-plan, into visible hate, or while commander-tax and survival pressure make the named line unsafe.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Dress Down
- Deck role: sideboard, 1 copy, sideboard bullet.
- Role type: flash enchantment, creature-text suppression.
- Deck-specific job: remove abilities from creatures until end of turn and draw a card, disrupting creature combos, ETB reliance, or combat keywords.
- Timing: side in against creature-ability decks; cast in the exact turn where text removal changes outcome.
- Failure modes: also affects your creatures, including Obeka's ability if active at the wrong time.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Grafdigger's Cage
- Deck role: sideboard, 1 copy, sideboard bullet.
- Role type: graveyard/library hate artifact.
- Deck-specific job: stop creature cards from entering battlefield from graveyards/libraries and players casting spells from graveyards/libraries where card text applies.
- Timing: side in against graveyard, library-cast, and creature-cheat decks.
- Failure modes: anti-synergy with your own Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, and some opponent-card access lines.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Abrade
- Deck role: sideboard, 1 copy, sideboard interaction.
- Role type: modal instant removal.
- Deck-specific job: either deal 3 damage to target creature or destroy target artifact.
- Mode map: creature-damage mode answers small/medium creatures; artifact mode answers problem artifacts.
- Timing: side in when either mode has frequent targets.
- Failure modes: cannot hit enchantments or large creatures cleanly.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Rakdos Charm
- Deck role: sideboard, 1 copy, sideboard interaction.
- Role type: modal instant.
- Deck-specific job: choose graveyard exile, artifact destruction, or each creature damaging its controller.
- Mode map: graveyard mode exiles target player's graveyard; artifact mode destroys target artifact; creature-count mode punishes token swarms.
- Timing: side in against graveyards, artifacts, or wide creature decks.
- Failure modes: creature-count mode can hurt you too.

- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Bedevil
- Deck role: sideboard, 1 copy, sideboard interaction.
- Role type: instant removal.
- Deck-specific job: destroy target artifact, creature, or planeswalker.
- Timing: side in when flexible permanent killing is needed.
- Failure modes: cannot answer enchantments or indestructible targets.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Thoughtseize
- Deck role: sideboard, 1 copy, sideboard disruption.
- Role type: sorcery discard.
- Deck-specific job: target player reveals hand, you choose a nonland card, that player discards it, and you lose 2 life.
- Timing: side in against combo/control to clear a protection or win card before committing.
- Failure modes: life loss and poor topdeck against empty hands.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Mindbreak Trap
- Deck role: sideboard, 1 copy, sideboard stack hate.
- Role type: instant exile counter-adjacent effect.
- Deck-specific job: exile any number of target spells, with alternate cost if an opponent cast three or more spells this turn.
- Timing: side in against storm, cascade-like chains, and uncounterable/problem stack turns.
- Failure modes: targets spells only; no effect on resolved permanents.

- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

#### Feed the Swarm
- Deck role: sideboard, 1 copy, sideboard creature/enchantment answer.
- Role type: sorcery removal.
- Deck-specific job: add a second copy after sideboarding to answer opponent creatures or enchantments at life cost.
- Timing: side in when enchantments or must-kill creatures are central.
- Failure modes: sorcery speed and life loss.
- Inputs / outputs: Consumes the mana, card, target, combat step, graveyard access, or temporary-object resource described above; outputs cleanup safety, pressure, interaction, mana, or cards only when paired with the named Obeka plan.
- Partners / packages: `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` plus `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` are the exact in-deck reference cards for this note's package decisions.
- Role peers: No direct peer; closest role overlap is `Obeka, Brute Chronologist` for commander-family timing and `Sundial of the Infinite`, `Time Stop`, `Discontinuity`, `Tale's End`, `Stifle` for the related engine or support role.
- Matchup / visibility hooks: Check visible graveyard hate, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, removal, blockers, commander tax, and end-step or delayed-trigger windows before committing this card.
- Low-skill guidance: At Level 1 or 2, follow this card's timing line, preserve Obeka commander-tax and cleanup windows, and choose the legal action only when it protects the active line or prevents lethal pressure.

## Interaction Priorities

- Priority: protect the active end-the-turn engine before protecting generic value. When Obeka, Brute Chronologist or Sundial of the Infinite is required to clean up Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, Sneak Attack, Goryo's Vengeance, Shallow Grave, Corpse Dance, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, or token-copy exile triggers, spend Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Tale's End, Stifle, Time Stop, Discontinuity, or Cyclonic Rift to stop removal, tap effects, silence effects, and `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate` that would leave the delayed trigger unresolved.

- Priority: counter or discard effects that prevent the next cleanup decision, not the first scary spell by default. A resolved graveyard hate piece, Torpor-Orb-style creature text stopper, combat-lock card, or stack lock that makes Obeka unavailable can beat a hand full of temporary threats; use Thoughtseize after sideboarding to take the protection, hate, or win card that blocks the committed turn.

- Priority: use Tale's End and Stifle first on triggered or activated abilities that directly beat the line. Preserve them for delayed lose-the-game triggers, sacrifice/exile cleanup triggers, commander removal abilities, and opponent combo abilities; do not spend them on low-impact value triggers unless the current turn has no better protection need.

- Priority: remove hate that shuts off the deck's registered engines. Feed the Swarm answers creatures or enchantments at sorcery speed and life cost, Chaos Warp answers any problematic permanent with replacement risk, Cyclonic Rift buys a tempo window, Terminate kills a creature cleanly, and sideboard Abrade, Rakdos Charm, Bedevil, and Feed the Swarm expand the answer mix by matchup.

- Priority: exile or interrupt graveyards before costs or replacement windows remove your agency. Dauthi Voidwalker, Rakdos Charm, Grafdigger's Cage, and Opposition Agent are strongest against graveyard, tutor, and library-access decks, but Grafdigger's Cage also interferes with Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, and some opponent-card cheat lines, so deploy it only when the opponent's axis matters more.

- Priority: bounce or sweep timing should open a kill turn or stop lethal, not create a decorative reset. Cyclonic Rift overload is a high-leverage precombat or end-step play when it clears blockers/hate for Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, or reanimated threats; single-target bounce is acceptable when it removes the one permanent blocking Obeka activation or lethal damage.

- Bait with replaceable card-flow and redundant engines before exposing the must-resolve piece. Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, Solemn Simulacrum, Baleful Strix, and Faerie Mastermind can draw removal or counters; do not bait with Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, or the only available extra-turn spell when the hand cannot recover.

- Ignore low-pressure creatures when life total is high and the engine is assembling. Spend interaction on combo pieces, graveyard hate, commander engines, stack protection, and lethal attackers before trading premium answers for small attackers that do not shorten the clock below the planned setup turn.

- Archetype shift: against fast combo, become a stack-and-hand disruption deck with Swan Song, Counterspell, Fierce Guardianship, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Tale's End, Stifle, Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, Mindbreak Trap, and Thoughtseize. Against creature pressure, become a removal-tempo deck that preserves life until Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, or copied threats stabilize. Against control, sequence bait first, then commit only with protection or an end-step window.

## Combat And Trading Rules

- Attack only when combat advances a trigger, lethal clock, or resource conversion. Professional Face-Breaker wants damage to players for Treasure, Etali, Primal Storm wants safe attacks to trigger, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar wants attacks that put a high-impact creature onto the battlefield, and Zara, Renegade Recruiter wants attacks when the opponent hand can reasonably contain a creature worth using.

- Preserve Obeka, Brute Chronologist over chip damage. Do not attack or block with Obeka when her tap ability is needed this turn cycle for Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, Sneak Attack, Goryo's Vengeance, Shallow Grave, Corpse Dance, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, or Mimic Vat cleanup.

- Trade expendable bodies before engine bodies. Baleful Strix, Faerie Mastermind, Solemn Simulacrum, tokens from Grave Titan, and tokens from Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance can block to preserve life; do not trade Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Apprentice Necromancer, Feldon of the Third Path, Dauthi Voidwalker, Opposition Agent, or Professional Face-Breaker unless the alternative is lethal damage or losing the engine anyway.

- Protect haste and activation windows with Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots before combat. Move equipment to Obeka when a cleanup trigger is coming, to Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker or Feldon of the Third Path when an activated line is planned, or to a large temporary threat when immediate combat damage is the winning route.

- Use stolen or temporary creatures aggressively when cleanup is controlled. Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, and reanimation spells often create bodies that should attack now because Obeka or Sundial can remove the delayed penalty; without a confirmed cleanup action, value the body as temporary and avoid relying on it to block later.

- Block conservatively once life drops into two-attack range from visible boards. Trade tokens and expendable draw creatures to keep life above a range where a single haste creature, commander swing, or burn spell can force a premature Glorious End or Time Stop.

- Push damage when the opponent is shields-down and the cleanup engine is active. Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Flayer of the Hatebound, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, and copied threats can end the game quickly; prefer attacks that leave Obeka untapped or leave Sundial of the Infinite available.

- Avoid blocks that expose a key creature to postcombat removal if the same creature is needed for a deterministic next-turn line. A safe life total plus protected Obeka is usually worth more than trading her or Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker for a medium attacker.

- Archetype shift: race combo and control with protected burst damage, but stabilize first against creature decks. Against go-wide boards, value Cyclonic Rift, Rakdos Charm, Grave Titan tokens, and Sokenzan, Crucible of Defiance blockers; against tall commander boards, prioritize Terminate, Bedevil, Chaos Warp, and bounce before accepting a trade that leaves the main engine undefended.

## Selection And Tutor Rules

- Find the missing half of the end-the-turn engine before finding generic value. Demonic Tutor and Vampiric Tutor should normally get Obeka, Brute Chronologist access, Sundial of the Infinite, Sneak Attack, Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, or a protection/answer card only when the visible state already supplies the engine piece that is missing.

- Use Entomb as a tactical setup card, not as a random graveyard fill. The preferred targets are Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, or Sedris, the Traitor King payloads such as Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Flayer of the Hatebound, or a matchup-specific creature if public information makes that target stronger.

- Tutor for protection before payoff when one resolved answer beats the whole turn. If Obeka, Brute Chronologist or Sundial of the Infinite is already present and a delayed trigger line is available, prioritize Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Swan Song, Counterspell, Fierce Guardianship, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Tale's End, Stifle, Time Stop, Discontinuity, or Chaos Warp according to the visible threat type.

- Do not top-deck tutor without a draw path when the current turn requires the card immediately. Vampiric Tutor is strongest before a draw step, The One Ring draw, Rhystic Study trigger, Mystic Remora trigger, Faerie Mastermind draw, Phyrexian Arena trigger, or Black Market Connections draw; otherwise prefer a direct hand tutor or wait unless survival is at stake.

- Use card-flow engines to sculpt toward a protected commitment turn. Rhystic Study and Mystic Remora reward waiting with mana open, Phyrexian Arena and Black Market Connections reward stable life totals, The One Ring can bridge into a protected extra-turn attempt, and Faerie Mastermind is best when an opponent's second-card draw is visible or when two mana can be held without delaying the engine.

- Bottom or devalue redundant temporary-threat access when no cleanup outlet is present. Extra copies of Sneak Attack-style effects, reanimation, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker lines, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, or extra-turn spells become risky until Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Time Stop, or Discontinuity is available.

- Prioritize land drops that keep interaction live over perfect color greed. Fetch Polluted Delta, Bloodstained Mire, Scalding Tarn, or Marsh Flats for the colors needed this turn plus the next protected commitment turn; do not crack before deciding whether Mystic Remora, Rhystic Study, Counterspell, Swan Song, Stifle, Entomb, Vampiric Tutor, or An Offer You Can't Refuse must remain available.

- Treat Path of Ancestry scry as engine filtering only when the rules engine exposes the trigger. Keep cards that complete Obeka plus cleanup plus payoff, and bottom expensive threats when hand already has Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, or another high-cost payload without cheat, reanimation, or mana acceleration.

## Priority And Stack Rules

- End the turn only for a concrete stack or cleanup purpose. Obeka, Brute Chronologist requires the player whose turn it is to choose to end the turn, Sundial of the Infinite can be activated only during your turn, and Time Stop, Discontinuity, and Glorious End should be used when the stack contains a losing spell/ability, an extra-turn loss trigger, or a delayed sacrifice/exile/return trigger that the deck wants gone.

- Hold priority for delayed penalties created by the deck's own cards. When Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Feldon of the Third Path, Mimic Vat, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Final Fortune, Last Chance, or Glorious End creates a delayed trigger, route the cleanup decision through Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Time Stop, or Discontinuity if legal and tactically intended.

- Do not fire Obeka before the relevant trigger or spell is actually on the stack unless the rules-engine output shows that ending the turn now is the chosen legal line. Ending too early can skip combat damage, skip beneficial triggers, or fail to remove a later delayed trigger that has not yet been created.

- Use Stifle and Tale's End on decisive triggered or activated abilities. Priority targets include extra-turn loss triggers, sacrifice/exile cleanup triggers, commander abilities, planeswalker abilities, fetch-like search abilities, or combo abilities; avoid spending them on low-impact value triggers while a known cleanup or lethal trigger remains pending.

- Counter stack-only threats before they resolve. Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, and Mindbreak Trap cannot remove resolved permanents, so reserve them for spells or stack objects that stop the engine, kill Obeka, win the game, or prevent a protected extra-turn/end-step line.

- Let opposing spells resolve when the resolved permanent is easier to answer and the counterspell is needed for the commitment turn. Chaos Warp, Feed the Swarm, Cyclonic Rift, Terminate, Abrade, Bedevil, and Rakdos Charm cover different resolved-card classes after sideboarding, so do not waste stack protection on a threat that the current hand can answer cleanly at lower strategic cost.

- Activate graveyard and tutor hate before the opponent pays irreversible costs when possible. Dauthi Voidwalker, Grafdigger's Cage, Opposition Agent, Rakdos Charm, and Mindbreak Trap are strongest when timed around visible search, cast-from-library/graveyard, mass graveyard use, or storm-like stacks; do not assume a response can stop a spell already legally cast from graveyard after costs are paid.

- Use copy and trigger enhancers only when the target or trigger is already worth protecting. Strionic Resonator and Lithoform Engine should copy high-impact triggers or spells from Grave Titan, Etali, Primal Storm, Sepulchral Primordial, Flayer of the Hatebound, Mimic Vat, Flameshadow Conjuring, or tutor/draw effects when mana remains for the resulting stack fight.

- Sequence equipment and haste protection before passing through vulnerable windows. Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots should protect Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Feldon of the Third Path, Apprentice Necromancer, or a temporary threat before the deck exposes a delayed-trigger line that cannot survive removal.

- Treat optional payments as board-state decisions, not defaults. Mystic Remora cumulative upkeep, Black Market Connections modes and life payment, The One Ring draw timing, and shock-land life payments from Watery Grave, Blood Crypt, and Steam Vents should preserve enough life and mana to survive the visible next attack while still assembling the protected end-the-turn turn.

## Sideboard Map

- Sideboard only to change the axis that matters for a visible opponent plan. Obeka Brute End Turn is still a protected delayed-trigger deck after sideboarding, so the default posture is to keep Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Sneak Attack, reanimation access, extra-turn cleanup, and enough mana acceleration unless the matchup punishes that exact axis.

- Dress Down enters against creature-combo tables, commander-static decks, and battlefield-trigger turns where removing creature abilities for a turn breaks a lethal line or protects a commitment turn. It is weaker when opponents win through `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, noncreature permanents, or graveyard recursion that does not depend on creature text; after boarding, treat Dress Down as a one-turn safety valve that may also blank your own Flayer of the Hatebound, Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Baleful Strix, Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, Professional Face-Breaker, Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, or Zara, Renegade Recruiter if timed carelessly.

- Grafdigger's Cage enters against graveyard-cast, library-cast, and creature-recursion engines when stopping the opponent matters more than your own reanimation velocity. It is poor when your hand depends on Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, or Sedris, the Traitor King; after boarding, shift toward hand-cast threats, Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Mimic Vat, and stack protection instead of graveyard commitment.

- Dauthi Voidwalker enters as a second graveyard-pressure body against graveyard decks, spell-heavy tables, and attrition pods where exiling opposing cards creates future cast access. It is weaker into creature combat boards that can remove or ignore a small creature before it matters; after boarding, main-deck Dauthi Voidwalker plus sideboard Dauthi Voidwalker increases the value of protecting a hate creature with Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots when it blocks the opponent's central resource.

- Opposition Agent enters against search-heavy commanders, fetch-heavy mana bases, and tutor-dependent combo decks. It is weak against low-search creature decks and when holding three mana open would prevent establishing Obeka, Brute Chronologist plus a cleanup outlet; after boarding, treat Opposition Agent as flash interaction first and a creature second, and do not expose it before an opponent search unless forcing a defensive blocker is necessary.

- Abrade enters when cheap artifact removal or creature damage is needed without spending Chaos Warp, Cyclonic Rift, or Bedevil. It is weaker against large creatures, enchantments, planeswalkers, and stack-based combo; after boarding, Abrade is the efficient answer that lets Counterspell, Swan Song, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Tale's End, and Stifle remain available for the commitment turn.

- Rakdos Charm enters against graveyard engines, artifact-heavy boards, and creature-token kills where one instant can punish a narrow axis. It is weak when opponents present planeswalkers, enchantments, single large creatures, or stack-only wins; after boarding, preserve red-black access and choose the mode that answers the visible threat instead of firing it as incidental damage.

- Bedevil enters against commanders, planeswalkers, dangerous artifacts, and creature threats that must die at instant speed. It is slower than Terminate or Abrade and can strain black-red mana, so it is weaker when the opponent's threats are cheap enchantments, stack-only spells, or graveyard resources; after boarding, Bedevil upgrades the deck's resolved-permanent coverage while increasing the need for untapped black-red sources.

- Thoughtseize enters against fast combo, control, and protection-heavy decks where taking a known answer before committing Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, Sneak Attack, or a reanimation line is worth two life. It is weaker against redundant creature boards, top-deck attrition, and pressure matchups where life total is already a visible constraint; after boarding, use Thoughtseize as pre-commitment information, not as a generic turn-one reflex when mana development or Mystic Remora is stronger.

- Mindbreak Trap enters against storm-like stacks, cascade-style chains, uncounterable or protection-heavy spell turns, and opponents who cast multiple spells before the critical stack object. It is weak against battlefield pressure and single-spell permanent decks; after boarding, keep it as stack exile insurance and remember it does not answer resolved permanents.

- Feed the Swarm enters when extra enchantment removal is necessary or when a creature must be answered despite black sorcery-speed constraints. It is weaker when life payment is unsafe, when instant timing is required, or when the matchup is mostly artifacts and `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`; after boarding, plan precombat sorcery windows carefully so tapping black mana does not expose the protected end-the-turn turn.

Graveyard Recursion / Cast-From-Graveyard Pressure
Side in: Grafdigger's Cage; Dauthi Voidwalker; Rakdos Charm; Thoughtseize
Cut: Whip of Erebos; Corpse Dance; Shallow Grave; Phyrexian Arena

- This plan is for opponents whose graveyard is faster than yours or whose graveyard access invalidates normal attrition. Grafdigger's Cage conflicts with your own graveyard cards, so reduce the most timing-sensitive recursion and keep Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, and Apprentice Necromancer only when the hand or board already supports a Cage-free line or when Cage is not yet drawn.

Search-Heavy Combo / Tutor Commander
Side in: Opposition Agent; Thoughtseize; Mindbreak Trap; Dauthi Voidwalker
Cut: Grave Titan; Sepulchral Primordial; Phyrexian Arena; Professional Face-Breaker

- This plan lowers battlefield bulk and raises pre-commitment disruption. Opposition Agent and Thoughtseize should create the window for Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, or a temporary-threat line; Mindbreak Trap protects against a stacked spell turn when normal counterspells are overloaded.

Artifact-Centric Board / Creature Utility Pressure
Side in: Abrade; Bedevil; Rakdos Charm
Cut: Phyrexian Arena; Black Market Connections; Sepulchral Primordial

- This plan adds instant resolved-permanent coverage while lowering slower life-cost or seven-mana cards. Keep Chaos Warp and Cyclonic Rift as flexible answers, and use Abrade before Bedevil when the threat class permits so black-red mana remains available for Terminate, Feed the Swarm, or Rakdos Charm.

Creature-Ability Combo / Battlefield Trigger Decks
Side in: Dress Down; Bedevil; Abrade; Feed the Swarm
Cut: Professional Face-Breaker; Phyrexian Arena; Sepulchral Primordial; Flameshadow Conjuring

- This plan treats creature text as the danger point. Dress Down should be held for the turn that stops a lethal ability or clears a protected attack, and the pilot must check whether it would suppress your own trigger-based payoff before resolving Grave Titan, Etali, Primal Storm, Sepulchral Primordial, Baleful Strix, Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, or Flayer of the Hatebound.

Enchantment / Stax Permanent Pressure
Side in: Feed the Swarm; Bedevil; Thoughtseize
Cut: Professional Face-Breaker; Sepulchral Primordial; Phyrexian Arena

- This plan increases access to enchantment or broad permanent answers while preserving the core end-the-turn engine. Feed the Swarm is sorcery-speed and life-costed, so use it before committing Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, or a large temporary creature unless the rules engine shows a safer later window.

- Add role cards: Mindbreak Trap, Thoughtseize, Opposition Agent, and Dauthi Voidwalker against fast spell combo. Reduce main-deck emphasis: seven-mana payloads, slow life-cost draw, and combat-only treasure plans when the opponent is not fighting on the battlefield.

- Add role cards: Abrade, Bedevil, Rakdos Charm, and Feed the Swarm against resolved permanent pressure. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow draw engines and expensive reanimation payoffs when the table demands immediate answers.

- Add role cards: Grafdigger's Cage, Dauthi Voidwalker, Rakdos Charm, and Opposition Agent against graveyard-search hybrids. Reduce main-deck emphasis: recursion lines that are shut off by Grafdigger's Cage, unless the visible hand can win through Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, or protected extra-turn cleanup.

- Preserve the commander's function after every sideboard plan. Do not board into a pure hate deck; Obeka, Brute Chronologist still needs a protected turn, a delayed trigger worth ending, and enough mana or haste/protection to make the opponent's interaction miss.

## Matchup Guidance

- Aggro: Stabilize first, then convert one protected temporary-threat turn into a race reversal. Prioritize hands with early mana from Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Indulgence, Talisman of Creativity, Fellwar Stone, or two-color lands plus at least one cheap stabilizer such as Baleful Strix, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Chaos Warp, Cyclonic Rift, or a fast Obeka, Brute Chronologist setup. Do not treat Final Fortune, Last Chance, or Glorious End as safe catch-up spells unless Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, or another legal end-the-turn answer is already available for the delayed loss trigger.

- Go-wide creature decks: Preserve sweep-like tempo and blockers over greedy engine turns. Cyclonic Rift, Grave Titan, Baleful Strix, and Sepulchral Primordial are the main board-stall tools, while Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, and Whip of Erebos can swing races only when the temporary exile or return trigger can be ended at the correct visible window. Add role cards: Rakdos Charm, Abrade, Bedevil, and Dress Down when tokens, artifacts, or creature text are central. Reduce main-deck emphasis: slow life-cost engines such as Phyrexian Arena and Black Market Connections when life total is under direct pressure.

- Burn: Treat life total as the protected resource and make every optional life payment justify itself immediately. Avoid unnecessary shock-land payments from Watery Grave, Blood Crypt, and Steam Vents when untapped mana is not needed this turn; be cautious with Reanimate, Feed the Swarm, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, and The One Ring if the resulting shields or cards do not change the next damage race. Lightning Greaves and Swiftfoot Boots are high priority because a protected Obeka, Brute Chronologist lets extra-turn and temporary-control lines stop being self-lethal.

- Tempo: Fight over mana efficiency and timing, not raw card count. Lead with cheap rocks and bait interaction with Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Baleful Strix, Faerie Mastermind, or Professional Face-Breaker before exposing Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sneak Attack, Splinter Twin, or Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker. Use Swan Song, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Counterspell, Fierce Guardianship, Tale's End, and Stifle for the interaction point that would either remove the end-the-turn engine or stop the delayed-trigger cleanup turn; spending them on low-impact cantrips or pressure is a mistake unless the rules engine shows lethal tempo.

- Control: Build a protected commitment window before casting the fragile payoff. Mystic Remora, Rhystic Study, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, and Faerie Mastermind help tax or outdraw permission, but the winning turn usually needs information or overload: Vampiric Tutor, Demonic Tutor, Entomb, Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, and protected counters should line up before Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, Sneak Attack, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Reanimate, Animate Dead, or a Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker / Splinter Twin line. Add role cards: Thoughtseize, Mindbreak Trap, Opposition Agent, and Dauthi Voidwalker. Reduce main-deck emphasis: combat-only pressure that does not force a counter or protect Obeka, Brute Chronologist.

- Combo: Identify whether the opponent wins on the stack, from graveyard, through searching, or through battlefield abilities before choosing disruption. Stack combo calls for Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Mindbreak Trap, Tale's End, Stifle, Time Stop, Discontinuity, and Glorious End; search-heavy combo calls for Opposition Agent and Thoughtseize; graveyard combo calls for Dauthi Voidwalker, Grafdigger's Cage, and Rakdos Charm; creature-ability combo calls for Dress Down, Bedevil, Abrade, Terminate, and Cyclonic Rift. Do not tap out for Etali, Primal Storm, Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, or Phyrexian Arena if the opponent can win before your next visible priority window.

- Midrange: Trade early, then win by making temporary resources permanent enough to matter. Baleful Strix, Solemn Simulacrum, Professional Face-Breaker, Grave Titan, and The One Ring create stable exchanges, while Feldon of the Third Path, Mimic Vat, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Flameshadow Conjuring, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, and Flayer of the Hatebound punish fair removal when Obeka, Brute Chronologist or Sundial of the Infinite can end the relevant delayed trigger. Keep Chaos Warp, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, and Cyclonic Rift for permanents that prevent attacking, stop graveyard access, or remove the commander.

- Removal-heavy decks: Do not expose Obeka, Brute Chronologist without either haste/protection or a redundant end-the-turn source. Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Sundial of the Infinite, Counterspell, Fierce Guardianship, Swan Song, An Offer You Can't Refuse, and Tale's End are the cards that let a delayed-trigger plan survive. If Obeka, Brute Chronologist has been taxed repeatedly, shift toward Sundial of the Infinite, Time Stop, Discontinuity, or ordinary value from The One Ring, Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, and Mimic Vat until recast timing is safe.

- Big mana: Pressure before their top-end invalidates one-for-one answers. Professional Face-Breaker, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Etali, Primal Storm, Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, and extra-turn spells can end the game quickly, but do not move into Final Fortune or Last Chance without visible cleanup. Use Opposition Agent against search turns, Counterspell or Fierce Guardianship on the payoff rather than the setup when possible, and Chaos Warp, Cyclonic Rift, Bedevil, or Feed the Swarm for resolved permanents that block the kill.

- Graveyard decks: Decide whether you are racing graveyards or using yours as the engine. Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Feldon of the Third Path, Mimic Vat, and Takenuma, Abandoned Mire all reward your graveyard, so Grafdigger's Cage is a deliberate pivot rather than a free inclusion. Add role cards: Dauthi Voidwalker, Grafdigger's Cage, Rakdos Charm, Opposition Agent, and Thoughtseize. Reduce main-deck emphasis: the most timing-sensitive recursion when your own hate is likely to be active.

- Artifact and enchantment decks: Keep flexible answers for the permanent that actually stops your engine. Abrade, Rakdos Charm, Bedevil, Feed the Swarm, Chaos Warp, Cyclonic Rift, Counterspell, and An Offer You Can't Refuse cover different windows, so match the answer to card type and timing shown by the rules engine. Do not waste Feed the Swarm on a marginal creature if an enchantment is the only visible way the opponent can stop Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Sneak Attack, Splinter Twin, Animate Dead, or Whip of Erebos.

- Single-threat decks: Answer the threat only when it matters, then punish the empty board. Terminate, Bedevil, Chaos Warp, Feed the Swarm, Cyclonic Rift, Tale's End, Stifle, Dress Down, Baleful Strix, and Dauthi Voidwalker can break commander-centric or single-payoff plans, while Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Sepulchral Primordial, and temporary reanimation can turn their own threat against them. If a borrowed or reanimated threat has a delayed return, sacrifice, exile, or end-step trigger, use Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Time Stop, or Discontinuity only at a legal window surfaced by the engine.

## Specific Matchup Notes
- General/archetype-only: Revealed cards override these assumptions. Treat the first exposed win condition, hate permanent, or interaction pattern as stronger evidence than the opponent's commander colors, and update priority targets before committing Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, Sneak Attack, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, or Splinter Twin.

- Fast stack combo: Protect the stack window before advancing the engine. Priority targets are the spell or activated/triggered ability that actually wins, not routine setup; use Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Tale's End, Stifle, Discontinuity, Time Stop, Glorious End, and Mindbreak Trap according to the legal action shown. Add role cards: Thoughtseize, Mindbreak Trap, Opposition Agent, and Dauthi Voidwalker. Reduce main-deck emphasis: Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, and slow draw permanents when tapping out gives away the next priority cycle.

- Graveyard combo or recursion mirrors: Decide whether hate helps more than your own recursion package before boarding heavily. Dauthi Voidwalker and Rakdos Charm can attack the opposing graveyard while preserving some of your own plan; Grafdigger's Cage is stronger but can conflict with Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Feldon of the Third Path, and Takenuma, Abandoned Mire. Add role cards: Dauthi Voidwalker, Rakdos Charm, Grafdigger's Cage, Thoughtseize, and Opposition Agent. Reduce main-deck emphasis: the most timing-sensitive recursion line if Grafdigger's Cage is present or likely to be cast.

- Creature-combo and commander-centric decks: Break the decisive creature or ability, then punish the exposed board. Priority targets are the creature that enables the loop, the commander that converts resources into a win, or the protection piece that makes later removal fail; use Terminate, Bedevil, Chaos Warp, Feed the Swarm, Cyclonic Rift, Dress Down, Tale's End, Stifle, and Abrade only when the legal target and timing match. Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Sepulchral Primordial, Mimic Vat, and temporary reanimation can convert their best threat into your closer if Obeka, Brute Chronologist or Sundial of the Infinite can clean up the delayed trigger.

- Removal-heavy midrange or control: Do not make Obeka, Brute Chronologist the only exposed point of failure. Lead with Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, Talisman of Dominance, Talisman of Indulgence, Talisman of Creativity, Fellwar Stone, Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Baleful Strix, Faerie Mastermind, The One Ring, or Black Market Connections to draw interaction before committing Sneak Attack, Splinter Twin, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, or an extra-turn spell. Priority targets are commander removal, graveyard hate, and permanent-based shutdown pieces that prevent end-the-turn cleanup.

- Artifact, enchantment, and hate-permanent decks: Match the answer to the permanent type and avoid spending the only answer on a low-impact body. Add role cards: Abrade, Bedevil, Rakdos Charm, and Feed the Swarm. Priority targets are permanents that stop activated abilities, prevent graveyard access, remove Obeka, Brute Chronologist before cleanup, or make temporary-control and reanimation lines fail. Reduce main-deck emphasis: fragile delayed-trigger lines until the hate piece is answered or a stack answer is held.

## Risk Summary
- Mana risk: The deck needs early blue, black, and red while also holding interaction windows open. Fetch and shock decisions should prioritize casting Obeka, Brute Chronologist with protection, then supporting Counterspell, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Sneak Attack, and Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker; Path of Ancestry, Xander's Lounge, and check/slow lands can make turn timing awkward if treated as untapped sources.

- Matchup risk: Fast combo can win before the deck assembles commander plus payoff plus cleanup. Do not tap out for Grave Titan, Etali, Primal Storm, Sepulchral Primordial, Phyrexian Arena, or Black Market Connections when the opponent has shown a near-term deterministic line and you have `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate` available.

- Draw risk: Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, Baleful Strix, and Faerie Mastermind find engines, but they do not replace legal cleanup. Extra cards should translate into protected Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, Time Stop, or `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, and `Fierce Guardianship` before Final Fortune, Last Chance, or Glorious End.

- Over-sideboarding risk: Grafdigger's Cage, Dauthi Voidwalker, Rakdos Charm, Opposition Agent, Thoughtseize, Mindbreak Trap, Dress Down, Abrade, Bedevil, and Feed the Swarm are powerful only when they answer the opponent's real axis. Do not dilute Sneak Attack, temporary reanimation, Obeka, Brute Chronologist, or recursion density so far that the deck becomes a pile of answers without a closer.

- Graveyard risk: The deck is both a graveyard deck and a graveyard-hate deck after sideboarding. Check whether Grafdigger's Cage or opposing graveyard hate makes Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Feldon of the Third Path, and Takenuma, Abandoned Mire worse before tutoring for them.

- Sweeper/removal risk: Losing Obeka, Brute Chronologist at the wrong time can turn a winning temporary-control, extra-turn, or delayed-trigger line into self-punishment. Prefer Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Fierce Guardianship, Counterspell, Swan Song, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Tale's End, Stifle, Sundial of the Infinite, or a redundant end-the-turn spell before exposing a fragile commitment.

- Closer risk: Large threats are not automatically wins without timing support. Etali, Primal Storm, Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Coercive Recruiter, and Zealous Conscripts should be committed when they either pressure lethal, generate immediate material, or connect to Obeka, Brute Chronologist / Sundial of the Infinite cleanup.

- Sequencing risk: The deck's strongest lines depend on exact priority and delayed-trigger handling. If the rules engine has not surfaced a legal end-the-turn, trigger-counter, or cleanup choice, do not assume Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Stifle, Tale's End, Time Stop, Discontinuity, or Glorious End can erase the drawback.

## Test Feedback Checklist
- Deciding factor: Identify whether the game was won or lost by protected end-the-turn execution, raw threat pressure, card-advantage engines, `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate`, graveyard access, or mana failure. Record the turn where Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, Time Stop, Stifle, Tale's End, Final Fortune, Last Chance, or Glorious End mattered.

- Mulligan quality: Check whether the opener had a credible path to mana plus engine, mana plus interaction, or mana plus draw. Flag hands that kept Sol Ring, Arcane Signet, a Talisman, or Fellwar Stone without the colors needed for Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Counterspell, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Sneak Attack, or tutors.

- Mana development: Review whether fetch lands, shock lands, Path of Ancestry, Xander's Lounge, check lands, slow lands, and filter lands produced the colors needed on the decisive turns. Note games where tapped lands delayed Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sneak Attack, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, or held-up interaction.

- Velocity: Ask whether Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, Baleful Strix, and Faerie Mastermind converted cards into protected action. Mark games where draw engines produced volume but not cleanup, pressure, or stack defense.

- Engine assembly: Verify whether Sneak Attack, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Feldon of the Third Path, Mimic Vat, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Splinter Twin, Flameshadow Conjuring, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Reanimate, and Animate Dead were used only when their temporary or recursion drawbacks were legally manageable.

- End-the-turn proof: Record every legal choice involving Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, Time Stop, and Glorious End. Flag any replay where a delayed trigger, extra-turn loss trigger, exile-at-end-step trigger, sacrifice trigger, or cleanup decision appeared to be skipped, auto-resolved incorrectly, or not surfaced to Veles.

- Removal and stack discipline: Check whether Terminate, Chaos Warp, Feed the Swarm, Cyclonic Rift, Swan Song, Counterspell, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Fierce Guardianship, Tale's End, Stifle, and sideboard Mindbreak Trap were spent on the opponent's decisive action rather than on low-impact bait.

- Closing: Ask whether Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Flayer of the Hatebound, Zara, Renegade Recruiter, Coercive Recruiter, Zealous Conscripts, Professional Face-Breaker, and copied or stolen creatures actually shortened the clock. Flag turns where the pilot generated material but did not attack, pressure planeswalkers, or set up lethal.

- Sideboard accuracy: In sideboard games, confirm that Dress Down, Grafdigger's Cage, Dauthi Voidwalker, Opposition Agent, Abrade, Rakdos Charm, Bedevil, Thoughtseize, Mindbreak Trap, and Feed the Swarm entered only for the opponent's actual axis. Record whether Grafdigger's Cage conflicted with the deck's own Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Feldon of the Third Path, or Takenuma, Abandoned Mire lines.

- Mistakes and stranded cards: List cards stranded in hand, cards cast into poor windows, and cards that were tutored but never used. Pay special attention to Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, Splinter Twin, Sneak Attack, Entomb, Demonic Tutor, Vampiric Tutor, and The One Ring.

- Overperformers and underperformers: Record which exact cards created decisive advantage and which cards were dead or win-more. Separate engine failure from support failure so a weak game with Sepulchral Primordial or Etali, Primal Storm does not incorrectly indict the whole temporary-cheat package.

## First Tuning Questions
- Engine density: Does the deck have enough independent cleanup access between Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, Time Stop, Stifle, Tale's End, and Glorious End, or are Final Fortune, Last Chance, Sneak Attack, and temporary recursion too often stranded without protection?

- Mana shape: Are Island, Swamp, Mountain, Path of Ancestry, Xander's Lounge, Clearwater Pathway, Blightstep Pathway, Riverglide Pathway, filter lands, and fetchable duals producing early blue-black-red consistently enough, or does the deck need fewer colorless-timing risks and more untapped colored sources?

- Threat package: Are Grave Titan, Sepulchral Primordial, Etali, Primal Storm, Ilharg, the Raze-Boar, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, Flayer of the Hatebound, and Zara, Renegade Recruiter closing games, or should the high-cost threat package be reduced for cheaper interaction or faster setup?

- Graveyard balance: Are Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, Shallow Grave, Apprentice Necromancer, Whip of Erebos, Sedris, the Traitor King, Feldon of the Third Path, and Takenuma, Abandoned Mire strong enough to justify sideboard tension with Grafdigger's Cage?

- Protection quantity: Does Lightning Greaves, Swiftfoot Boots, Fierce Guardianship, Counterspell, Swan Song, An Offer You Can't Refuse, Tale's End, Stifle, and Discontinuity protect the commander and commitment turns often enough, or are more stack/protection slots needed over slow engines?

- Aggro plan: Against fast creature pressure, are Baleful Strix, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Chaos Warp, Cyclonic Rift, Grave Titan, Abrade, Bedevil, and Dress Down enough to stabilize, or does the deck need a lower curve and fewer delayed-value permanents?

- Control plan: Against removal-heavy control, is the deck winning by card flow and redundant engines, or is Obeka, Brute Chronologist too central? Consider whether Rhystic Study, Mystic Remora, Phyrexian Arena, Black Market Connections, The One Ring, and protected tutor sequencing need more emphasis.

- Sideboard slots: Are Thoughtseize, Mindbreak Trap, Opposition Agent, Dauthi Voidwalker, Rakdos Charm, Abrade, Bedevil, Dress Down, Grafdigger's Cage, and Feed the Swarm each solving distinct matchups, or are some roles duplicated while a major weakness remains uncovered?

- Role conflict: Is the deck trying to be combo-control, graveyard recursion, temporary-threat midrange, and theft engine all at once? If losses come from mixed plans, identify whether to prioritize Obeka, Brute Chronologist cleanup lines, graveyard lines, or fair interaction in the next version.

## Veles Tactical Policy

### Policy: Opening Hand Functional Core
- Priority: High
- Decision families: mulligan
- Cards: Obeka, Brute Chronologist; Sol Ring; Arcane Signet; Talisman of Dominance; Talisman of Indulgence; Talisman of Creativity; Fellwar Stone; Sundial of the Infinite; Sneak Attack; Entomb; Reanimate; Animate Dead; Counterspell; Terminate
- Phase windows: Opening hand, pregame mulligan.
- Runtime cues: visible opening hand; commander identity; land count; available colors.
- Use when: Deciding whether the hand can cast mana development, reach blue-black-red, and present either Obeka, Brute Chronologist, cleanup access, draw, tutor, or interaction.
- Avoid when: The hand has fast mana but cannot produce required colors, or has temporary-threat payoffs without Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, Time Stop, Stifle, or Tale's End.
- Instructions: Keep hands with 2-4 lands or credible fast-mana equivalents, at least two colors, and a plan that either develops Obeka, Brute Chronologist or protects a setup engine. Ship hands that rely on Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, Sneak Attack, Goryo's Vengeance, Corpse Dance, or Shallow Grave without cleanup or interaction.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 2.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Early Setup Before Engines
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: mana; priority
- Cards: Obeka, Brute Chronologist; Lightning Greaves; Swiftfoot Boots; Rhystic Study; Mystic Remora; Black Market Connections; The One Ring; Baleful Strix; Faerie Mastermind
- Phase windows: Turns 1-4 main phases and opponent draw/commitment windows.
- Runtime cues: legal cast actions; available mana; commander recast tax; known opposing removal.
- Use when: Choosing between protection, card flow, and the first enabling permanent.
- Avoid when: Opponents threaten lethal, a must-answer stack object exists, or tapping out exposes Obeka, Brute Chronologist before a required cleanup turn.
- Instructions: Establish mana and card flow before fragile temporary engines unless the hand already has cleanup and protection. Prefer Lightning Greaves or Swiftfoot Boots before committing Obeka, Brute Chronologist into visible removal-heavy boards.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 2.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Mana Colors Over Raw Speed
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: mana
- Cards: Command Tower; Exotic Orchard; Path of Ancestry; Xander's Lounge; Polluted Delta; Bloodstained Mire; Scalding Tarn; Marsh Flats; Clearwater Pathway; Blightstep Pathway; Riverglide Pathway; Sunken Ruins; Graven Cairns; Cascade Bluffs
- Phase windows: Land play, fetch activation, mana payment.
- Runtime cues: action:play; action:activate; action:pay mana; visible hand costs.
- Use when: Selecting lands or payment sources for turns involving Obeka, Brute Chronologist, Counterspell, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Sneak Attack, or tutors.
- Avoid when: Spending a filter source or fetch source prevents holding the only color needed for `Counterspell`, `Swan Song`, `An Offer You Can't Refuse`, `Fierce Guardianship`, and `Negate` this turn.
- Instructions: Preserve blue for Counterspell, Swan Song, Tale's End, Stifle, Discontinuity, and Time Stop when a commitment turn is planned. Preserve black for Entomb, Reanimate, Animate Dead, Terminate, Feed the Swarm, Demonic Tutor, and Vampiric Tutor. Preserve red for Sneak Attack, Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker, Flameshadow Conjuring, Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded, and Chaos Warp.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 2.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Obeka Cleanup Commitment Gate
- Priority: High
- Decision families: priority; interaction
- Cards: Obeka, Brute Chronologist; Sundial of the Infinite; Sneak Attack; Goryo's Vengeance; Corpse Dance; Shallow Grave; Apprentice Necromancer; Whip of Erebos; Sedris, the Traitor King; Final Fortune; Last Chance; Glorious End
- Phase windows: Precombat main, combat, beginning of end step, cleanup-sensitive stack windows.
- Runtime cues: visible delayed trigger; action:activate Obeka, Brute Chronologist; action:activate Sundial of the Infinite.
- Use when: Starting a line that creates an exile, sacrifice, return, lose-the-game, or extra-turn loss trigger that can be managed by ending the turn.
- Avoid when: Cleanup access is summoning-sick, tapped, unprotected, illegal this turn, or needed to answer a more dangerous opponent action.
- Instructions: Do not begin temporary-control, temporary-reanimation, Sneak Attack, or extra-turn-risk lines until a legal cleanup route and backup interaction are identified. Treat this as the deck's defining commitment gate.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 3.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Deterministic Obeka Target Self
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: priority
- Cards: Obeka, Brute Chronologist
- Phase windows: Your turn, especially end step or response to a visible delayed trigger.
- Runtime cues: action:target self Obeka, Brute Chronologist
- Use when: A prior selected line requires ending your current turn, Obeka, Brute Chronologist is already legally activated, and the legal target list includes the active player as self.
- Avoid when: The legal action text targets an opponent, Obeka, Brute Chronologist is controlled by another player, or the stack contains your own spell or ability that must resolve before the turn ends.
- Instructions: Choose target self for Obeka, Brute Chronologist only when the engine line has already committed to ending your current turn. Respect the targeted player choice on resolution if the rules engine exposes it separately.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 1.
- No-API allowed: yes
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Deterministic Sundial Activation
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: priority
- Cards: Sundial of the Infinite
- Phase windows: Your turn after a selected cleanup-sensitive action creates a visible pending drawback.
- Runtime cues: action:activate Sundial of the Infinite
- Use when: Sundial of the Infinite is untapped, the action text is legal during your turn, and a prior selected line requires ending the current turn before a visible delayed drawback resolves.
- Avoid when: Ending the turn would exile or skip your own unresolved spell, trigger, combat damage, or lethal action currently on the stack.
- Instructions: Activate Sundial of the Infinite as deterministic cleanup only after the commitment decision is made by model reasoning.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 1.
- No-API allowed: yes
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Extra-Turn Loss Trigger Discipline
- Priority: High
- Decision families: priority; interaction
- Cards: Final Fortune; Last Chance; Glorious End; Discontinuity; Time Stop; Stifle; Tale's End; Obeka, Brute Chronologist; Sundial of the Infinite
- Phase windows: Extra turn setup, end step, trigger-on-stack windows.
- Runtime cues: visible lose-the-game trigger; action:cast Stifle; action:cast Tale's End; action:cast Discontinuity; action:cast Time Stop.
- Use when: A legal action can prevent or bypass a visible loss trigger created by Final Fortune, Last Chance, or Glorious End.
- Avoid when: The loss trigger is not visible, the answer cannot legally affect that object, or using the answer exposes an immediate opponent win.
- Instructions: Treat loss-trigger handling as survival priority. Use stack answers or end-the-turn effects only when legality is visible from the engine; do not assume hidden cleanup timing.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 3.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Temporary Threat Deployment Gate
- Priority: High
- Decision families: priority; combat; interaction
- Cards: Sneak Attack; Ilharg, the Raze-Boar; Purphoros, Bronze-Blooded; Goryo's Vengeance; Corpse Dance; Shallow Grave; Apprentice Necromancer; Feldon of the Third Path; Mimic Vat; Flameshadow Conjuring; Kiki-Jiki, Mirror Breaker; Splinter Twin
- Phase windows: Main phases, beginning of combat, combat, end step.
- Runtime cues: legal cast or activate actions; available attack step; visible opposing blockers and removal.
- Use when: A temporary creature or token line can attack, trigger, stabilize, or set up lethal while its drawback is controlled or acceptable.
- Avoid when: The creature cannot usefully attack or trigger this turn, cleanup is unavailable, or the opponent has visible interaction that makes waiting safer.
- Instructions: Commit temporary engines for immediate pressure, lethal setup, or decisive board swing. Do not spend them as low-impact bodies that will be sacrificed, exiled, or returned without changing the game.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 3.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Reanimation Target Selection
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: selection; priority
- Cards: Entomb; Reanimate; Animate Dead; Goryo's Vengeance; Corpse Dance; Shallow Grave; Apprentice Necromancer; Whip of Erebos; Sedris, the Traitor King; Grave Titan; Sepulchral Primordial; Etali, Primal Storm; Flayer of the Hatebound; Solemn Simulacrum; Baleful Strix
- Phase windows: Tutor resolution, graveyard targeting, main phase, combat setup.
- Runtime cues: action:target; visible graveyards; legal target list.
- Use when: Choosing a graveyard card for Entomb or a reanimation spell or ability.
- Avoid when: Grafdigger's Cage or opposing graveyard hate visibly prevents the intended result, or the target's drawback cannot be managed.
- Instructions: Route target choice through light-model unless the legal target tuple is explicitly specified by a selected line. Favor targets that create immediate damage, cards, removal pressure, or bodies before end-step drawbacks matter.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 3.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Tutor Commitment Gate
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: selection
- Cards: Demonic Tutor; Vampiric Tutor; Entomb; Takenuma, Abandoned Mire
- Phase windows: Main phase, end step before your turn, channel/selection windows.
- Runtime cues: action:search; action:look; action:select; known hand and graveyard.
- Use when: Selecting a card to assemble cleanup, protection, mana, threat, or answer.
- Avoid when: The game state requires holding mana for interaction and the tutor does not solve that turn's visible problem.
- Instructions: Tutor first for missing cleanup or protection when the hand already has temporary payoffs. Tutor for threat or recursion only when mana, timing, and protection are already present.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 3.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Permission Spending Gate
- Priority: High
- Decision families: interaction; priority
- Cards: Swan Song; Counterspell; An Offer You Can't Refuse; Fierce Guardianship; Tale's End; Stifle; Discontinuity; Time Stop; Mindbreak Trap
- Phase windows: Opponent spell cast, triggered ability on stack, activated ability on stack, your commitment turn.
- Runtime cues: action:cast; action:counter; action:exile target spell; visible stack.
- Use when: The stack object stops your cleanup engine, kills Obeka, Brute Chronologist, wins the game, or invalidates a committed lethal or survival line.
- Avoid when: The object is low-impact bait and a later visible or likely commitment point matters more.
- Instructions: Spend permission on decisive stack objects, commander removal during a required cleanup turn, graveyard hate that stops a committed recursion line, or opponent win attempts. Preserve narrow counters for legal object types only.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 3.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Removal Target Discipline
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: interaction
- Cards: Terminate; Chaos Warp; Feed the Swarm; Cyclonic Rift; Abrade; Bedevil; Rakdos Charm; Dress Down
- Phase windows: Main phase, combat, opponent commitment, end step.
- Runtime cues: action:target; visible permanent types; attacking creatures; lethal threats.
- Use when: A visible permanent blocks your engine, threatens lethal, shuts off graveyard or commander function, or must be removed before combat.
- Avoid when: The target is replaceable pressure and spending removal leaves no answer to a known lock piece or lethal setup.
- Instructions: Use exact legal target classes from the rules engine. Prioritize hate pieces, lethal attackers, protection blockers, and permanents that invalidate Obeka, Brute Chronologist or recursion lines.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 2.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Combat Pressure After Temporary Deployment
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: combat
- Cards: Grave Titan; Sepulchral Primordial; Etali, Primal Storm; Ilharg, the Raze-Boar; Zara, Renegade Recruiter; Coercive Recruiter; Zealous Conscripts; Professional Face-Breaker; Dauthi Voidwalker; Baleful Strix
- Phase windows: Beginning of combat, declare attackers, declare blockers.
- Runtime cues: legal attack actions; tapped blockers; planeswalker or player targets.
- Use when: A temporary, stolen, copied, or reanimated creature can attack before its drawback or before ending the turn.
- Avoid when: Attacking loses Obeka, Brute Chronologist protection, opens lethal crackback, or sacrifices a needed blocker without lethal or decisive pressure.
- Instructions: Convert temporary bodies into damage and triggers before cleanup. Attack planeswalkers only when removing them matters more than player life pressure or commander-damage setup.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 2.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Deterministic Cast Free Protection
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: interaction; priority
- Cards: Fierce Guardianship
- Phase windows: Stack window while you control Obeka, Brute Chronologist.
- Runtime cues: action:cast Fierce Guardianship
- Use when: The selected interaction line requires Fierce Guardianship, Obeka, Brute Chronologist is your commander and is controlled by you, and the legal action text offers casting Fierce Guardianship without paying its mana cost.
- Avoid when: The legal target is not the selected stack object or the spell cannot legally counter that object.
- Instructions: Choose the free-cast action only after model reasoning selects Fierce Guardianship as the answer.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 1.
- No-API allowed: yes
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Sideboard Axis Selection
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: sideboard; pregame
- Cards: Dress Down; Grafdigger's Cage; Dauthi Voidwalker; Opposition Agent; Abrade; Rakdos Charm; Bedevil; Thoughtseize; Mindbreak Trap; Feed the Swarm
- Phase windows: Between games, pregame sideboard.
- Runtime cues: opponent archetype, revealed cards, graveyard use, search effects, artifact/enchantment reliance, stack-combo speed.
- Use when: Choosing which sideboard cards match the opponent's demonstrated axis.
- Avoid when: A sideboard card disrupts your own primary plan more than the opponent's plan, especially Grafdigger's Cage versus your own reanimation package.
- Instructions: Bring in exact answers for the opponent's visible plan: Grafdigger's Cage, Dauthi Voidwalker, and Rakdos Charm for graveyards; Opposition Agent and Thoughtseize for search/combo; Abrade, Bedevil, and Feed the Swarm for permanent pressure; Dress Down for creature text reliance; Mindbreak Trap for spell-chain turns.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 3.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Commander Tax And Recast Timing
- Priority: Medium
- Decision families: mana; priority
- Cards: Obeka, Brute Chronologist; Lightning Greaves; Swiftfoot Boots; Command Tower; Arcane Signet; Sol Ring; Talisman of Dominance; Talisman of Indulgence; Talisman of Creativity; Fellwar Stone
- Phase windows: Main phase, command-zone cast window, post-removal recovery.
- Runtime cues: command zone; commander tax; legal cast Obeka, Brute Chronologist; available protection.
- Use when: Deciding whether to recast Obeka, Brute Chronologist from the command zone.
- Avoid when: Recasting consumes the turn without protection and no cleanup-sensitive line is ready, or commander tax prevents holding required interaction.
- Instructions: Recast Obeka, Brute Chronologist when it enables an immediate or protected future cleanup line. Delay recast when Sundial of the Infinite, Discontinuity, Time Stop, Stifle, or Tale's End already covers the next commitment and mana is needed for interaction.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 2.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes

### Policy: Card-Draw Engine Risk Gate
- Priority: Low
- Decision families: priority; selection
- Cards: Rhystic Study; Mystic Remora; Phyrexian Arena; Black Market Connections; The One Ring; Faerie Mastermind; Baleful Strix
- Phase windows: Early main phase, opponent draw/cast windows, upkeep trigger choices.
- Runtime cues: legal cast actions; upkeep payment prompts; life total; opposing pressure.
- Use when: Choosing whether to deploy or maintain card-flow engines.
- Avoid when: Life payments, upkeep costs, or tapping out makes Final Fortune, Last Chance, Glorious End, or temporary-engine cleanup unsafe.
- Instructions: Use card-flow engines to find cleanup, protection, and finishers, not as a substitute for board survival. Pay ongoing costs only when they preserve enough mana and life for the next interaction window.
- Pilot skill floor: Level 2.
- No-API allowed: no
- Light-model allowed: yes
