Card
Obscura Interceptor
Mana cost {1}{W}{U}{B}
Flash Lifelink When this creature enters, it connives. When it connives this way, return up to one target spell to its owner's hand. (To have a creature connive, draw a card, then discard a card. If you discarded a nonland card, put a +1/+1 counter on that creature.)
Part of 1 known combo, one of them two-card. 4 official rulings.
- Commander
- Legal
- Printing
- Rare · SNC · #209
- Cheapest printing
- €0.07
- EDHREC salt
- 0.88
- Color identity
- Black, Blue, White
- Keywords
- Lifelink, Flash, Connive
Bracket
- B1 Exhibition — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Approach of the Second Sun
- B2 Core — Not in the same deck as its two-card combo partner: Approach of the Second Sun
- B3 Upgraded — allowed: Its two-card combos are not early, which Bracket 3 allows
- B4 Optimized — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
- B5 cEDH — allowed: No restriction beyond the banned list
Why
- Two-card combo with Approach of the Second Sun (none of them early)
How Lotus Vault estimates a bracket
Bracket: Lotus Vault analysis, with Commander Spellbook flags
Combos
1 known combo, one of them two-card.
- Obscura Interceptor + Approach of the Second Sun
Produces: Win the game
View on Commander Spellbook
Combos: Commander Spellbook
Rulings
- 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
If no card is discarded, most likely because that player's hand is empty and an effect says they can't draw cards, the conniving creature does not receive a +1/+1 counter. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
Once an ability that causes a creature to connive begins to resolve, no player may take any other actions until it's done. Notably, opponents can't try to remove the conniving creature after you discard a nonland card but before it receives a counter. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives. If you discard a nonland card this way, you won't put a +1/+1 counter on anything. Abilities that trigger “when [that creature] connives” will trigger. - 2022-04-29 · Wizards of the Coast
If a resolving spell or ability instructs a specific creature to connive but that creature has left the battlefield, the creature still connives. Abilities that trigger “when [that creature] connives,” such as that of Obscura Interceptor, will trigger.
Rulings: Scryfall · Wizards of the Coast