Obelisk of Urd is one of those cards players keep asking about. Here is, in plain words, what its official text says, the rulings published by Wizards of the Coast, and the combos players actually run.
Official card text
Convoke (Your creatures can help cast this spell. Each creature you tap while casting this spell pays foror one mana of that creature's color.) As this artifact enters, choose a creature type. Creatures you control of the chosen type get +2/+2.
How it works : Obelisk of Urd
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Tapping a multicolored creature using convoke will pay for
or one mana of your choice of any of that creature's colors.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If a creature you control has a mana ability with
in the cost, activating that ability while casting a spell with convoke will result in the creature being tapped before you pay the spell's costs. You won't be able to tap it again for convoke. Similarly, if you sacrifice a creature to activate a mana ability while casting a spell with convoke, that creature won't be on the battlefield when you pay the spell's costs, so you won't be able to tap it for convoke.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
Because convoke isn't an alternative cost, it can be used in conjunction with alternative costs.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
You can tap any untapped creature you control to convoke a spell, even one you haven't controlled continuously since the beginning of your most recent turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
Tapping an untapped creature that's attacking or blocking to convoke a spell won't cause that creature to stop attacking or blocking.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
When calculating a spell's total cost, include any alternative costs, additional costs, or anything else that increases or reduces the cost to cast the spell. Convoke applies after the total cost is calculated. Convoke doesn't change a spell's mana cost or mana value.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
The choice of creature type is made as Obelisk of Urd enters the battlefield. Players can't respond to this choice. The bonus starts applying immediately.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
You must choose an existing creature type.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Henry Wu, InGen Geneticist + Chatterfang, Squirrel General + Nadir Kraken + Artificial Evolution
- 1Cast Henry Wu by paying
. - 2When Henry Wu enters the battlefield, its exploit ability triggers.
- 3Holding priority, cast Artificial Evolution by paying , changing all instances of "Human" on Henry Wu to "Squirrel".
- 4Resolve the Henry Wu trigger, causing you to sacrifice another non-Squirrel creature with power 3 or greater.
- 5Henry Wu's second ability triggers, causing you to draw a card and create a 1/1 Squirrel creature token and a Treasure artifact token.
- 6The Squirrel's exploit ability and Nadir Kraken trigger.
- 7Activate the Treasure by tapping and sacrificing it, adding .
- 8Resolve the Nadir Kraken trigger, causing you to pay to put a +1/+1 counter on it and create a 1/1 Tentacle creature token.
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