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Well, there's [[Havoc Festival]] + [[Wound Reflection]], and if anyone survives to make it to your turn, you just start skipping your own turn. Same schtick with the "Pact of ____" cycle
idk if you're already aware, but Obeka plays well with Myriad, making a slower-than-competitive but still explosively powerful style of play.
And [[Identity Thief]] is a fun exploration in the rules surrounding her, since she cancels the part where exiled things come back but doesn't cancel the thief returning to normal, allowing you to just exile a creature every turn until stopped.
Finally, Obeka naturally likes having backup spells like [[Discontinuity]], [[Stifle]], or [[Glorious End]], right? Well, those spells make for some really special fun when you start paying attention for cancellable triggers on opponents' turns. They send their commander for a ride in the [[Golden Argosy]]? Well, if you cancel the "return them all to the battlefield trigger", then that commander is trapped in exile forever. Oops.
The first ideas are nice, but in the last paragraph i get a bit lost. Canceling opponents triggers seems to be a nice idea, but you can only do them with [[Stifle]] etc. For me, it seems you give OP the idea to use [[Obeka]] on opponents turn. If you dont intend to, forget the next sentence. You "cant use" Obeka on opponents tur. Because the abbility reads "the player whose turn it is may end the turn". If opponent doesnt want to end, it doesnt. You can try it politicly if its trigger is from Player C and its Player B s turn. If B wants to end then it will work.
You are correct that Obeka only works if the player whose turn is being cancelled agrees to do so. However, Discontinuity and Glorious End both work during opponent's turns, and do not give your opponent a choice. The idea is that if you use them at the same sort of timing where you would use Stifle, you cancel their triggers and they can't do anything about it (except counterspells).
It's frequently good to run them in Obeka so you have a backup plan in case Obeka is removed, but if Obeka's on the field then you can use her to survive the downside of Glorious end. So basically, it's just a neat trick you can do with cards that might already be found in an obeka deck.