Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time 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
Flying Whenever you cast an instant spell from your hand, it gains rebound. (Exile it as it resolves. At the beginning of your next upkeep, you may cast it from exile without paying its mana cost.) When Ojer Pakpatiq dies, return it to the battlefield tapped and transformed under its owner's control with three time counters on it. (Transforms from Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch.): Add
. Remove a time counter from this land.
Complete guide
Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch is a formidable God from Ixalan that turns every instant in your hand into a double-value threat. By granting your spells rebound, this creature ensures your magical dominance ripples across multiple turns. Even death is temporary for this deity, as it retreats into the Temple of Cyclical Time to eventually return to the fray.
Harnessing the Deepest Epoch
Ojer Pakpatiq provides a static ability that gives any instant spell you cast from your hand the rebound keyword. Rebound works by changing how the spell resolves: instead of going to the graveyard, the spell is exiled. Then, at the start of your next upkeep, a delayed triggered ability allows you to cast that spell again for free. Note that this only applies to spells cast from your hand; spells cast from your graveyard or library won't gain rebound.
The Cycle of Rebirth
When Ojer Pakpatiq dies, it doesn't stay in the graveyard. Instead, it returns to the battlefield transformed as the Temple of Cyclical Time with three time counters. You can tap the land for blue mana and remove a counter each time. Once all counters are gone, you can pay its transformation cost during your main phase to bring the God back to its creature form. Remember, if a copy of this card (that isn't a double-faced card) dies, it stays in the graveyard because it cannot transform.
Resolution and Timing
For rebound to trigger, the spell must resolve. If your opponent uses a counterspell, the instant goes straight to the graveyard and you lose the rebound effect. During your next upkeep, the rebound trigger goes on the stack. You must cast the spell at that moment if you wish to use it; you cannot save it for later in the turn. If the spell requires targets and there are no legal targets during your upkeep, you simply cannot cast it, and it remains in exile forever.
Interaction examples
Roaming ThroneIf you have Roaming Throne on the battlefield with 'God' chosen as the creature type, Ojer Pakpatiq's death trigger will fire twice. However, since the first trigger returns the card to the battlefield transformed, the second trigger will find the card is no longer in the graveyard and will do nothing. More importantly, Roaming Throne does not double the rebound effect because rebound is a replacement effect on resolution, not a triggered ability of the God itself.
Solemn SimulacrumWhile Solemn Simulacrum helps you ramp into the mana needed to transform the Temple of Cyclical Time back into Ojer Pakpatiq, it does not interact with the rebound ability. Only Instant spells gain rebound; since Solemn Simulacrum is a creature spell, it will go to the graveyard as normal upon death, regardless of whether Ojer Pakpatiq is on the battlefield.
Guide written with AI from the official text and rulings. Official English text prevails.
How it works : Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time
Original English text — Wizards of the Coast / Scryfall
- #1· Wizards of the Coast
Casting the card again due to rebound's delayed triggered ability is optional. If you choose not to cast the card, or if you can't because an effect prohibits it, the card will stay exiled. You won't get another chance to cast it on a future turn. If you do cast the card, it's put into its owner's graveyard as normal once it resolves.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #2· Wizards of the Coast
If a spell with rebound that you cast from your hand doesn't resolve for any reason, including being countered, that spell won't resolve and none of its effects will happen, including rebound. The spell will be put into its owner's graveyard and you won't get to cast it again on your next turn.
No other card is named in this ruling.
- #3· Wizards of the Coast
If a card that isn't a transforming double-faced card is a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch, it won't return to the battlefield when it dies.
No other card is named in this ruling.
Popular combos
Real combos played by the community, sorted by popularity.
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time + Altar of Dementia
- 1Defeat Invasion of Amonkhet
- 2Invasion of Amonkhet triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 3Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4Activate Altar of Dementia by sacrificing Lazotep Convert.
- 5When Lazotep Convert dies, it triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 6Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 7Resolve the Altar of Dementia ability, causing target player to mill cards equal to Lazotep Convert's power.
- 8Repeat from step 4.
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time + Phyrexian Altar
- 1Defeat Invasion of Amonkhet
- 2Invasion of Amonkhet triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 3Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4Activate Phyrexian Altar by sacrificing Lazotep Convert, adding one mana of any color.
- 5When Lazotep Convert dies, it triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 6Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 7Repeat from step 4.
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time + Ashnod's Altar
- 1Defeat Invasion of Amonkhet
- 2Invasion of Amonkhet triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 3Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4Activate Ashnod's Altar by sacrificing Lazotep Convert, adding
. - 5When Lazotep Convert dies, it triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 6Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 7Repeat from step 4.
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time + Blasting Station
- 1Defeat Invasion of Amonkhet
- 2Invasion of Amonkhet triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 3Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4When Lazotep Convert enters the battlefield, Blasting Station triggers, untapping Blasting Station.
- 5Activate Blasting Station by tapping it and sacrificing Lazotep Convert.
- 6When Lazotep Convert dies, it triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 7Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 8When Lazotep Convert enters the battlefield, Blasting Station triggers, untapping Blasting Station.
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time + Viscera Seer
- 1Defeat Invasion of Amonkhet
- 2Invasion of Amonkhet triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 3Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4Activate Viscera Seer by sacrificing Lazotep Convert.
- 5When Lazotep Convert dies, it triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 6Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 7Resolve the Viscera Seer ability, causing you to scry 1.
- 8Repeat from step 4.
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time + Bartolomé del Presidio
- 1Defeat Invasion of Amonkhet
- 2Invasion of Amonkhet triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 3Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4Activate Bartolomé del Presidio by sacrificing Lazotep Convert.
- 5When Lazotep Convert dies, it triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 6Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 7Resolve the Bartolomé del Presidio ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 8Repeat from step 4.
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time + Shilgengar, Sire of Famine
- 1Defeat Invasion of Amonkhet
- 2Invasion of Amonkhet triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 3Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4Activate Shilgengar by sacrificing Lazotep Convert.
- 5When Lazotep Convert dies, it triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 6Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 7Resolve the Shilgengar ability
- 8Repeat from step 4.
Invasion of Amonkhet // Lazotep Convert + Ojer Pakpatiq, Deepest Epoch // Temple of Cyclical Time + Bloodflow Connoisseur
- 1Defeat Invasion of Amonkhet
- 2Invasion of Amonkhet triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 3Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 4Activate Bloodflow Connoisseur by sacrificing Lazotep Convert.
- 5When Lazotep Convert dies, it triggers, causing you to exile it, and return it to the battlefield transformed as Lazotep Convert.
- 6Choose to have Lazotep Convert enter the battlefield as a copy of Ojer Pakpatiq that is a 4/4 Zombie.
- 7Resolve the Bloodflow Connoisseur ability, putting a +1/+1 counter on it.
- 8Repeat from step 4.
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