Not really - 2/4 of the cards need to be in the deck when Pocket Galaxy gets played to even pull it off with a Faceless or Molten in Hand, for 3 x 5.
5 x 5 is very unlikely - resp. unlucky for the opponent.
Itās a cute for deck building thought experiments but itās really difficult for me to see this ever being something beyond 30% winrate meme deck.
Compare this thing to Star Aligner. I had a Star Aligner Quest Druid that was kinda fun to play, and Iāve been theorycrafting a similar deck that uses Lunaās Pocket Galaxy. Thereās some fun to trying to puzzle out how to meet the win condition consistently enough.
But at the end of the day, itās not going to ever be a strong deck because the win condition is too fragile and isnāt necessarily game winning when you get it to go off. Even if you managed to assemble a full board of these things, itās not necessarily game winning if they have any kind of board, which they probably will since this will require a lot of setup.
Mad props the person who can get this off in Wild with a Drakkari Enchanter in play.
You could use the qqrlock togwaggle combo with a couple changes!
Summon stone>summon stone>obelisk>obelisk>faceless>drakkri enchanter would be 30 damage exactly for 10 mana, albeit split, although you could potentially fit one more something in there if you use Prince Taldarim for summoning stone #2 or some other mana cheat.
Best I can think of would be Summoning Stone>Prince Taldarim(stone)>Drakkari Enchanter>Faceless(Enchanter)>Obelisk>Obelisk>Faceless(obelisk)
That would be 45 damage!
Takes too many cards for even a meme deck but Iād love to see it work, lol
Just brainstorming whatās available (in standard) to get you more copies, along with cards that help with it
Neutral
Baleful banker
Elekk helps with shuffle
Faceless
Dollmaster Dorian
Archivist (RNG dependent)
Jepetto can help setup combo
Druid
Gloop Sprayer
Flobbidinous Floop
Dreampetal can help setup combo
Mage
Splitting image
Hex Lord Malacrass RNG on mulligan
CC RNG
Unexpected results RNG (needs the right amount of spell damage)
Paladin
Commander Rhyssa with redemption (requires enemy stupid enough to kill the obe first)
If youāve used neutral options to shuffle extra copies, prismatic lens may help in drawing them at reduced cost
Priests
A lot, not gonna list them all, but Iāll mention vivid nightmare as a less used card, and Iāll note that if you just happen to run into somebody who also runs obelisk, priest have ways to steal their obelisk
Rogue
Togwaggleās scheme
Lab recruiter
Get the goblet treasure and hope RNG draws it
LIke priest, if you run into another obelistk, Unidentified contract may give you the option to destroy it while adding it to your hand
Shaman
Double ancestral spirit on a single obe
Big bad voodoo RNG
Eureka
Warlock
Beltrug shuffle
Some kind of discard trick via soul warden (thereās going to be a card that discards the highest cost card in hand, and some peopel have theorycrafted soulwarden could do some silly loops)
Warrior
Boom Reaver RNG
Dimensional Ripper RNG
Heavy Metal RNG
Something makes me think there might be other cards in the set that can summon these as well. Five mana plus setup/shenanigans for 5 randon damage is beyond terrible.
Definitely feels like something Priest is primarily meant to take advantage of and I hope whatever meme it goes into is good enough to see play.
If I were going to put some serious thought into trying to make a deck around this, priest is probably my first choice. With Spirit of the Dead and Elekk, you can shuffle in lots of 1 mana copies and then use Bwonsamdi to tutor them out at the end.
Priest does have a fair bit of stall cards, including the new Plague. And as a fall back plan, maybe you can fit in Divine Spirit/Inner Fire.
I currently have a just for fun priest deck thatās based around cloning and resurrecting, but it currently works to duplicate/rez Zerek and it would need a lot of modification to go this route.
Maybe somehow you stuff your deck full of Obelisks and then Zerekās Cloning Gallery them all out. And you Talanji out the copies if they wind up in your hand.
One of those cards that will most likely remain a theorycrafters meme, but if anyone does figure out a decent deck will have folks chasing the devs with pitchforks and fire, I love it!
More cards like this please, make you think , and with a cool new effect. Got to admit I like the idea of mechanics where you need to assemble a certain combo on board and then something cool happens.
Iām definitely going to have to build a spirit of the dead Priest deck using these beauties, should be fun , if not good!
Oh, I will make this happen. 6 + Drakkari OTK (all from hand) is possible. Its gonna take a while, but if I have the patience to get 7x 18/22 Vargoths on board, I will get this done as well
in theoryā¦this can work in a inner divine type deck with some of its silence and seance and rez effects.
Stand aloneā¦they either kill it immediately or you make a 10/10. If they kill it, you seance the second one. Maybe silent summoner it. Yeah, the two are now silenced and cant hit for 5. Any you play or res afterward can now, though. And each of those obelisks are standing inner fire threats.
I was imagining a scenario where you put down a Spirit of the Dead and Obelisk. If they leave the obelisk up, you can try to copy it with stuff like Seance, Vivid Nightmare, and PW: Replicate or Divine Spirit/Inner Fire them. If they kill it, they give you additional copies for later.
Itās not a particularly good plan since it involves playing lots of things with 0 attack in a tempo oriented game, but you might be able to get someone with it every now and then.