Cephalid Breakfast

Aeosynth · Joined: 29 Sep 2006 Posts: 15

// Lands
2 [RAV] Temple Garden
2 [DIS] Hallowed Fountain
4 [ON] Flooded Strand
4 [ON] Windswept Heath
4 [DIS] Breeding Pool
2 [UNH] Forest
1 [UNH] Plains

// Creatures
4 [FS] Narcomoeba
2 [RAV] Flame-Kin Zealot
3 [TO] Cephalid Illusionist
1 [TSP] Outrider en-Kor
1 [FD] Eternal Witness

// Spells
3 [PS] Eladamri's Call
4 [BOK] Shuko
3 [FS] Bridge from Below
2 [TSP] Dread Return
3 [MR] Chrome Mox
4 [PS] Orim's Chant
4 [JU] Living Wish
4 [OD] Careful Study
2 [MR] Lightning Greaves
1 [RAV] Congregation at Dawn

// Sideboard
SB: 1 [TO] Cephalid Illusionist
SB: 1 [TSP] Outrider en-Kor
SB: 2 [FD] Steelshaper's Gift
SB: 1 [TSP] Harmonic Sliver
SB: 1 [FD] Engineered Explosives
SB: 2 [PS] Meddling Mage
SB: 1 [ON] True Believer
SB: 1 [FD] Trinket Mage
SB: 1 [CHK] Dosan the Falling Leaf
SB: 1 [SOK] Kataki, War's Wage
SB: 1 [RAV] Loxodon Hierarch
SB: 2 [FS] Pact of Negation

Turn one, shuko. Turn two, Cephalid Illusionist. Target Illusionist with Shuko. Repeat. Mill your Narcomoebas into play, then use them to flashback Dread Return targeting Flame-Kin Zealot. Get zombie tokens from Bridge from Below. Smash opponent for 20-50. Grin.

This is my verision of breakfast, which uses Bridge From Below instead of Sutured Ghoul. IMO, 10 zombies are much harder to deal with than one 26/26. I played against a decklist that used tarnished citadel and simian spirit guide and thought it was stupid, so I went with the more typical route of fetches, duals, and moxes. I realized cabal therapy sucked when i therapied a Rock player, hit putrefy, and saw a hand of smother, darkblast, extirpate, etc, and instead use 4x chant, which turn all of those off. I don't want to disrupt your hand, I want to win.

This deck does get pwowned by... extirpate, pithing needle, tormod's crypt, leyline of the void, chalice at 2, meddling mage, explosives, scepter + chant, any creature that can sac itself... but it wins on turn two. Easily.

For SB Wish targets, Silent Arbiter, Pentarch Paladin, Magus of the Disk, and Magus of the Tabernacle all look really great, except that they're 4 mana or more. I'm sticking with Hierarch right now as my lifesaver vs. agro.

The lone Eternal Witness is there as an emergency discard outlet - say you drew both FKZ's, no worries, just combo off, get witness in the yard, bring her into play w/ dread return, get careful study, then pitch.

Any (intelligent) critiques? I *do* have outs against hate via engineered explosives, harmonic sliver, orim's chant and pact of negation.

-Aeos

_bIxCAiA_ · Joined: 13 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

First....

u can only target cephalid 1 time....
u need 2 creatures to pull the combo off...read the equipement rulas in the oracle....

second....

having these fact in account..ur deck simply sucks....sorry to say...but since u didn t know how to build the deck...it doenst even work...lol...penis!

if u want a good build i have one that kill consistente on turn 3...and often on tur 2...

Just rearrange the deck....i would glady help u since i love the deck to..

Kudos

ant900 · Joined: 11 Oct 2004 Posts: 2477 Location: somewhere

Kaiser · Joined: 15 Sep 2004 Posts: 313

_bIxCAiA_ you can target the illusionist an infiinite amount of times with shuko. You don't need a second creature. Go read the rulebook or stay quiet plz thx.

R3wind · Joined: 24 Jul 2006 Posts: 884

Layline of the Void is a main deck must... 3-4 is needed to help the deck. This can also help the make the Balancing Tings and Ritual Desire matchups survivable. It turns off Terravore, Rite of Flame, Cabal Therapy (flashback), and Cabal Ritual (Threshold), It is also a good vs Threshold but most versions are ready for maindeck hate vs their gameplan.

Magx · Joined: 07 Sep 2004 Posts: 339

Thorns · Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 832 Location: Rath

Avata · Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 372

Life is better when Magx gets owned.

Thorns · Joined: 16 Aug 2006 Posts: 832 Location: Rath

sc4rs · Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 392

I'm willing to bet Magx never rereads these posts. Someone should really PM him.

As per the deck:

The other advantage I see to the Sutured Ghoul version is that they can't sacrifice a creature and remove half of your Bridges from the game in-between Illusionist resolutions to remove some Bridges from the game, possibly screwing your win.

I like the different outlets though. Meddling naming Dread Return would kinda screw you over too, though.

KeySam · Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 533

i realy like this deck but the rock matchup must be horrible, discard, deed.... i personaly think you should add some more disrupt i think this deck goes of turn 4 in worst case, i personally think it would be better if you put in some disrupt and kick some other cards out, i mean you have 3 cephalid 7 ways to get them 4 card draw. maybe 4 eldamaris + 4 cephalid is just strait enough then you can put 3 more disrupt cards in maybe 3 pact of negaition maindeck or just a force spike with your speed this is pretty enough and can help you vs the discards, also kick the congregation i dont see a way your deck take any advantage of it put in the 4th chrome instead. the rest is fine i think ill try this deck.

ah and ps. you shouldnt get owned by a creature that can sack itself cause they need to do it before you sac your creas and you can kill your opponent with 2 bridges in grave if you think of that maybe add a 4th bridge and kick some lands you playing 22 (when you count the moxes) and you need not more then 3 mana and that only for outrider/witness then you also could add the 4.th forcespike...)

Engrishskill · Joined: 15 Jan 2007 Posts: 400

Really cool deck. I would consider cabal therapy or duress, thanks to sudden shock, extirpate etc. Have you considered gemstone caverns? Your deck only requires two cards to win basically and getting a gemstone mine out allows you to play a shuko and a duress or what have you.

KrovikanMist · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 107

play std bridge. this is too inconsistent