I was wondering if anyone remembers the decklists for the old cereal decks from back in the day. Like trix, cocoa pebbles. If you could post links or the decklist themselves would be awesome.
I was wondering if anyone remembers the decklists for the old cereal decks from back in the day. Like trix, cocoa pebbles. If you could post links or the decklist themselves would be awesome.
The decks were hammered hard by the restrictions (in Vintage) and bannings (in Extended) of the broken mana (Mana Vault, Dark Ritual, Lotus Petal and a few others) and the restriction/banning of Necropotence.
The core was like this:
Fruity Pebbles (the first one):
4 Enduring Renewal
4 Goblin Bombardment
4 Academy Rector
4-6 0 mana creatures (Ornithopter, Shield Sphere)
Several of the lands with T, Sac: Add 2 mana or similar (Geothermal Crevice and the Mercadian Masques and Fallen Empires variants)
Broken mana, lands, as many tutors as were legal
Cocoa Pebbles (the first one to be broken):
As above, plus 4 Necropotence, 4 Demonic Consultation, some Duress/Hymn to Tourach/other disruption). Could also run Culling the Weak and more 0 drops; this was rare.
Trix:
4 Illusions of Grandeur
3-4 Donate
4 Necropotence
4 Force of Will
4 Necropotence
Broken mana, tutors, disruption (Unmask, Duress, Hymn). Demonic Consultation was the best tutor.
'Wheaties' was another Fruity Pebbles combo deck that utilized Recurring Nightmare/Survival of the Fittest to tutor up pieces of the combo, and otherwise played as a standard RecSur deck when needed.
Full English Breakfast, a deck that utilized Survival of the Fittest + Volrath's Shapeshifter. You'd generally cast the Shapeshifter with Palinchron as the top card of your 'yard to untap some lands, then pitch into a Flowstone Hellion. Swing with haste, stack 11 +1/-1 triggers, and then discard Phyrexian Dreadnought in response to become a 23/1 trample creature for the win.
There's also Cheerios, a fairly recent Legacy combo deck that runs a full suite of free creatures along with Glimpse of Nature, seeking to draw a large number of cards in the early turns. Scapegoat lets you bounce a bunch of your guys to replay for more cards.
The decks were hammered hard by the restrictions (in Vintage) and bannings (in Extended) of the broken mana (Mana Vault, Dark Ritual, Lotus Petal and a few others) and the restriction/banning of Necropotence.
The core was like this:
Fruity Pebbles (the first one):
4 Enduring Renewal
4 Goblin Bombardment
4 Academy Rector
4-6 0 mana creatures (Ornithopter, Shield Sphere)
Several of the lands with T, Sac: Add 2 mana or similar (Geothermal Crevice and the Mercadian Masques and Fallen Empires variants)
Broken mana, lands, as many tutors as were legal
Cocoa Pebbles (the first one to be broken):
As above, plus 4 Necropotence, 4 Demonic Consultation, some Duress/Hymn to Tourach/other disruption). Could also run Culling the Weak and more 0 drops; this was rare.
Trix:
4 Illusions of Grandeur
3-4 Donate
4 Necropotence
4 Force of Will
4 Necropotence
Broken mana, tutors, disruption (Unmask, Duress, Hymn). Demonic Consultation was the best tutor.
'Wheaties' was another Fruity Pebbles combo deck that utilized Recurring Nightmare/Survival of the Fittest to tutor up pieces of the combo, and otherwise played as a standard RecSur deck when needed.
Full English Breakfast, a deck that utilized Survival of the Fittest + Volrath's Shapeshifter. You'd generally cast the Shapeshifter with Palinchron as the top card of your 'yard to untap some lands, then pitch into a Flowstone Hellion. Swing with haste, stack 11 +1/-1 triggers, and then discard Phyrexian Dreadnought in response to become a 23/1 trample creature for the win.
Eggs was a Modern Breakfast reference, it's a combo deck that utilizes cards like Shadowblood Egg, Chromatic Star, Conjuror's Bauble, Lotus Bloom, and similar to draw cards while filtering or generating mana, and then casts Second Sunrise/Faith's Reward to return these cards to the battlefield to draw more Eggs.
There's also Cheerios, a fairly recent Legacy combo deck that runs a full suite of free creatures along with Glimpse of Nature, seeking to draw a large number of cards in the early turns. Scapegoat lets you bounce a bunch of your guys to replay for more cards.
Cephalid Breakfast is another Legacy deck from a few years back, utilizing Cephalid Illusionist plus free-targeting like Nomads en-Kor or Shuko to mill your entire deck into Narcomoebas and then Dread Return on Sutured Ghoul with Dragon's Breath to grant your huge Frankenstein's Monster haste.
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Legacy: Something U/W Controlish
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