First printed in Outlaws of Thunder Junction (2024)
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Legendary Creature — Ogre Warlock
Menace
Whenever Obeka deals combat damage to a player, you get that many additional upkeep steps after this phase.
"You're living on borrowed time."
2/5
- Illustrated by
- Ryan Pancoast
Legality
- Legal in
- Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Vintage, Future Standard, Historic, Timeless, Penny Dreadful, Gladiator, Commander, Duel Commander, Oathbreaker, Brawl, Standard Brawl, Competitive Brawl
- Not legal in
- Pauper, Alchemy, Premodern, Old School 93/94, Pauper Commander, PreDH, Tiny Leaders
Rulings (5)
- If multiple phases are added to the same point in your turn, the most recently created phase happens first. For example, say Obeka deals combat damage and its ability resolves during your combat damage step, giving you two additional beginning phases each containing an upkeep step after this combat phase. During end of combat, another effect gives you an additional combat phase after this combat phase. The additional combat will happen first, followed by the additional beginning phases containing the two upkeep steps.
- After the beginning phases containing the additional upkeep steps, the game proceeds to the next phase as normal, which is likely to be your postcombat main phase (unless something has added even more phases; see below).
- Abilities that trigger "at the beginning of [your] upkeep" will trigger at the beginning of each additional upkeep step as well.
- Since the upkeep step can only occur during the beginning phase, getting one or more additional upkeep steps outside of the beginning phase actually means you get an additional beginning phase for each of those upkeeps after this phase. In those beginning phases, the untap and draw steps will be skipped.
- The beginning phases containing the additional upkeep steps occur after the current combat phase ends. The last step of the combat phase is the end of combat step.
Prices
MTGO price: 0.006 TIX, the cheapest non-foil print (average sell price on GoatBots, 1 Nov 2026).
Combos
17 combos, the most popular first:
- Win the game: Mechanized Production + Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
- Near-infinite Treasure tokens for all players, Near-infinite damage to all players: Descent into Avernus + Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
- Infinite colored mana, Infinite combat damage…: Aggravated Assault + Obeka, Splitter of Seconds + Replicating Ring
- Infinite turns, Lock: Court of Vantress + Obeka, Splitter of Seconds + Time Sieve
- Infinite turns, Lock: Obeka, Splitter of Seconds + Replicating Ring + Time Sieve
- Infinite turns, Lock: Obeka, Splitter of Seconds + Thopter Spy Network + Time Sieve
- Infinite artifact ETB, Infinite artifact LTB…: Aggravated Assault + Obeka, Splitter of Seconds + Smaug the Magnificent
- Win the game: Azor's Elocutors + Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
- Infinite combat phases, Infinite red mana…: Aggravated Assault + Braid of Fire + Leyline Tyrant + Obeka, Splitter of Seconds
- Infinite turns, Lock: Obeka, Splitter of Seconds + Smaug the Magnificent + Time Sieve