Obosh, the Preypiercer 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
Companion — Your starting deck contains only cards with odd mana values and land cards. (If this card is your chosen companion, you may put it into your hand from outside the game foras a sorcery.) If a source you control with an odd mana value would deal damage to a permanent or player, it deals double that damage to that permanent or player instead.
How it works : Obosh, the Preypiercer
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Scryfall
Once you put your companion into your hand, it behaves like any other card you’ve brought into the game. For example, if it’s countered or destroyed, it’s put into your graveyard, remaining in the game.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Scryfall
Wizards of the Coast has issued functional errata for the Companion mechanic. Instead of casting companions from outside the game: Once per game, any time you could cast a sorcery (during your main phase when the stack is empty), you can pay
to put your companion from your sideboard into your hand. This is a special action, not an activated ability. It happens immediately and can’t be responded to. It can’t be countered or stopped by cards like Phyrexian Revoker. For more information please see https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/june-1-2020-banned-and-restricted-announcementNo other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
The damage is dealt by the same source as the original source of damage. The doubled damage isn't dealt by Obosh unless it was the original source of damage.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #4· Wizards of the Coast
Paying
to put your companion into your hand is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and players can't respond to it. Once you take this action, you may cast that card if it's legal to do so before any other player can take actions.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #5· Wizards of the Coast
If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay
any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty). Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. For example, if it's discarded, countered, or destroyed, it's put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. This is a change from previous rules.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #6· Wizards of the Coast
For spells with
in their mana costs, use the value chosen for X to determine the spell's mana value. If a permanent or card in any other zone has in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #7· Wizards of the Coast
If a creature with trample you control would deal combat damage to a blocking creature while you control Obosh, you must assign its unmodified damage. For example, a 3/3 creature with trample blocked by a 2/2 creature can have 1 damage assigned to the defending player. It will then deal 4 damage to the blocking creature and 2 damage to the defending player.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #8· Wizards of the Coast
If an effect such as that of Ravenous Gigantotherium asks you to divide damage among targets, you must divide the unmodified damage before doubling it.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #9· Wizards of the Coast
If multiple replacement or prevention effects try to modify damage that would be dealt to a permanent or player, the player or the controller of the permanent chooses the order in which they apply.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #10· Wizards of the Coast
Your companion begins the game outside the game. In tournament play, this means your sideboard. In casual play, it's simply a card you own that's not in your starting deck.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #11· Wizards of the Coast
Before shuffling your deck to become your library, you may reveal one card from outside the game to be your companion if your starting deck meets the requirements of the companion ability. You can't reveal more than one. It remains revealed outside the game as the game begins.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #12· Wizards of the Coast
The requirements of the companion ability apply only to your starting deck. They do not apply to your sideboard.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #13· Wizards of the Coast
If more than one player wishes to reveal a companion, the starting player does so first, and players proceed in turn order. Once a player has chosen not to reveal a companion, that player can't change their mind.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #14· Wizards of the Coast
If you reveal a companion outside the game, for as long as it remains there, you may pay
any time you could cast a sorcery (that is, you have priority during your main phase and the stack is empty). Once you do, you put it into your hand and behaves like any other card you've brought into the game. For example, if it's discard, countered, or destroyed, it's put into your graveyard, remaining in the game. This is a change from previous rules.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #15· Wizards of the Coast
Paying
to put your companion into your hand is a special action. It doesn't use the stack and players can't respond to it. Once you take this action, you may cast that card if it's legal to do so before any other player can take actions.No other card is named in this ruling.
- #16· Wizards of the Coast
The companion's other abilities apply only if the creature is on the battlefield. They have no effect while the companion is outside the game.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #17· Wizards of the Coast
The companion ability has no effect if the card is in your starting deck and creates no restriction on putting a card with a companion ability into your starting deck. For example, Zirda may be in your starting deck even if your other permanent cards don't all have activated abilities.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #18· Wizards of the Coast
You may have one companion in the Commander variant. Your deck, including your commander, must meet its companion requirement. Your companion is not one of your one hundred cards.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #19· Wizards of the Coast
If a card in a player's library has
in its mana cost, X is considered to be 0.No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Obosh, the Preypiercer + Heartless Hidetsugu + Glacial Chasm
- 1Activate Heartless Hidetsugu by tapping it, causing it to deal lethal damage to each opponent with an even life total, nearly lethal damage to each opponent with an odd life total, and no damage to you due to Glacial Chasm.
Obosh, the Preypiercer + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Angel
- 1Activate Heartless Hidetsugu by tapping it, causing it to deal lethal damage to each player with an even life total and nearly lethal damage to each player with an odd life total.
- 2You cannot lose the game due to Platinum Angel.
Obosh, the Preypiercer + Heartless Hidetsugu + Platinum Emperion
- 1Activate Heartless Hidetsugu by tapping it, causing it to deal lethal damage to each opponent with an even life total, nearly lethal damage to each opponent with an odd life total, and damage to you that does not cause your life total to change due to Platinum Emperion.
Vigor + Hanabi Blast + Crystalline Crawler + Bösium Strip
- 1Activate Bösium Strip by paying and tapping it, allowing you to cast instants and sorceries from the top of your graveyard this turn.
- 2Cast Hanabi Blast either from your hand or from the top of your graveyard by paying
, targeting Crystalline Crawler. - 3Resolve Hanabi Blast, putting four +1/+1 counters on Crystalline Crawler due to Vigor's first ability, and then returning Hanabi Blast to your hand and discarding a card at random.
- 4Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability three times by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, adding .
- 5Repeat from step 2.
- 6Once you have infinite colored mana, you may instead target any other creature and/or player with Hanabi Blast.
Vigor + Hanabi Blast + Crystalline Crawler + Oskar, Rubbish Reclaimer
- 1Cast Hanabi Blast by paying , targeting Crystalline Crawler.
- 2Resolve Hanabi Blast, putting four +1/+1 counters on Crystalline Crawler due to Vigor's first ability, and then returning Hanabi Blast to your hand and discarding a card at random.
- 3Oskar triggers if the discarded card was a nonland card.
- 4Holding priority, activate Crystalline Crawler;s first ability three times by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, adding .
- 5Resolve the Oskar trigger, choosing to cast Hanabi Blast if it was the discarded card by paying targeting Crystalline Crawler, or choosing not to cast the card otherwise.
- 6If you did not cast Hanabi Blast using Oskar, cast it from your hand by paying , targeting Crystalline Crawler.
- 7Repeat from step 2.
- 8Once you have infinite colored mana, you may instead target any other creature and/or player with Hanabi Blast.
Vigor + Hanabi Blast + Crystalline Crawler + Conspiracy Theorist
- 1Cast Hanabi Blast by paying , targeting Crystalline Crawler.
- 2Resolve Hanabi Blast, putting four +1/+1 counters on Crystalline Crawler due to Vigor's first ability, and then returning Hanabi Blast to your hand and discarding a card at random.
- 3Conspiracy Theorist's second ability triggers, allowing you to exile the discarded card from your graveyard if it was a nonland card and cast it from exile this turn.
- 4Activate Crystalline Crawler's first ability three times by removing three +1/+1 counters from it, adding .
- 5Cast Hanabi Blast either from your hand or from exile by paying .
- 6Repeat from step 2.
- 7Once you have infinite colored mana, you may instead target any other creature and/or player with Hanabi Blast.
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