Life Breakfast

richuncle · Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 6

Life Breakfast
//Creatures:
1x Sutured Ghoul
1x Krosan Cloudscraper
3x Cephalid Illusionist
3x Narcomoeba
3x Birds of Paradise
1x Outrider en-Kor
2x Daru Spiritualist
//Spells:
1x Dragon Breath
4x Serum Visions
4x Living Wish
1x Krosan Reclamation
4x Chrome Mox
2x Cabal Therapy
1x Dread Return
4x Shuko
3x Eladamri's Call
3x Careful Study
//Lands:
4x City of Brass
4x Tarnished Citadel
2x Starlit Sanctum
4x Mutavault
2x Brushland
2x Gemstone Mine
1x Yavimaya Coast

//Sideboard:
1x Cephalid Illusionist
1x Outrider en-Kor
1x Daru Spiritualist
1x Starlit Sanctum
11x Others

For those of you who are unfamiliar with Life Breakfast, it is a combo deck that relies on two creatures in play, one of which either Cephalid Illusionist or less preferably Daru Spiritualist. With Illusionist is in play with another creature, use Shuko or Outrider en-Kor to target Cephalid Illusionist until you have decked yourself. While decking, you will likely have at least two Narcomoeba put into your graveyard from your library allowing them to be put into play. When decked out, sacrifice a Narcomoeba to Cabal Therapy Sutured Ghoul, Krosan Cloudscraper, or Dragon Breath if needed, and then sacrifice the two creatures from the combo and the other Narcomoeba to Dread Return Sutured Ghoul from your graveyard into play. When he comes into play, remove all creatures in your graveyard from the game and he should be at least a 22/21 creature with the shuko equipped and Dragon Breath. Then simply attack. Spiritualist is my fallback guy that can act as another creature for illusionist or can be targeted along with another creature until he is a 1/1000 creature, and then sacrifice with Starlit Sanctum for infinite life.
If you need me to clarify anything please tell me and please critique my decklist. The last time I saw a deck like this was when the other en-Kors were part of extended along with Vampiric Tutor.

Grega · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 3

Do you think pact of negation would be a solid enrty into the sb?

trueeevil · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 142

I don't understand why mutavault is in there. It seems like you'll never want to use it as a creature. Also, i think running both combos makes it harder to combo off with either one. I think running goyf is also good, not only does it work with sutured ghoul, but it is also a good attacker if you don't manage to combo off.

//Creatures:
1x Sutured Ghoul
3x Cephalid Illusionist
3x Narcomoeba
3x Birds of Paradise
1x Outrider en-Kor
4x Tarmogoyf
//Spells:
1x Dragon Breath
4x Living Wish
1x Krosan Reclamation
4x Chrome Mox
2x Cabal Therapy
1x Dread Return
4x Shuko
3x Eladamri's Call
3x Careful Study
4x Pact of Negation
//Lands:
4x City of Brass
4x Tarnished Citadel
2x Temple Garden
2x Gemstone Mine
1x Breeding Pool
2x Windswept Heath
2x Wooded Foothills
1x Tenko Ice Bridge

Grega · Joined: 24 Mar 2008 Posts: 3

What about lightning greaves in there some where? It does the same thing the shuko does, just a little bit slower.

trueeevil · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 142

having more than 5 targeters is too much i think.

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 706

greaves sucks, you cant go off with 1 creature if u have a greaves instead of a shuko. also your mana base is bad, your kill condition isnt the most efficient, and why post this after the ptq season this deck becomes obsolete after the rotation, why do u play krosan reclamtion and careful study

Ashmatan · Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 48

OK. You obv don't get the fact that the combo is pretty broken due to the fact that you DON'T need Illusionist AND another creature to go off, JUST Illusionist or Spiritualist and here's why: READ Shuko. Equip 0: you may pay 0 to equip this card to a creature you control. Play this ability any time you could play a sorcery. That's right my man, Illusionist/Spiritualist is a creature you control when Shuko is out. Therefore, you can keep targeting him over and over with Shuko as long as you don't get disrupted cuz it's at sorcery speed, you know.

Just filling you in trying to help out. And yes, I've spoken to higherups in the DCI about it. Judges and such. It kind of rolls over and dies gms 2 & 3 in the meta right now. Gm 1 is a blast, though!

center425 · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 334

He was talking about greaves which you do have to have 2 creatures to go off with :/

thedarkness · Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 460

There's a list better than any sutured ghoul based one, since it doesn't scoop to life gain and removal. o-o

The combo takes up fewer slots than the goyf-based combo, and only one more than the 1 krosan cloudscraper combo.

Lands
1 Breeding Pool
4 City of Brass
2 Flooded Strand
1 Hallowed Fountain
1 Overgrown Tomb
3 Starlit Sanctum
1 Temple Garden
4 Windswept Heath
1 Gemstone Caverns

Creatures
1 Body Double
3 Cephalid Illusionist
3 Daru Spiritualist
1 Mirror Entity
1 Mogg Fanatic
4 Narcomoeba
1 Outrider en-Kor
1 Reveillark
2 Simian Spirit Guide

Spells
4 Cabal Therapy
4 Chrome Mox
1 Dread Return
4 Eladamri's Call
4 Living Wish
4 Shuko
4 Steelshaper's Gift

Sideboard
SB: 1 Starlit Sanctum
SB: 1 Cephalid Illusionist
SB: 1 Daru Spiritualist
SB: 1 Outrider en-Kor
SB: 1 Gaddock Teeg
SB: 2 Ingot Chewer
SB: 1 Offalsnout
SB: 2 Wispmare
SB: 1 Meddling Mage
SB: 1 Kataki, War's Wage
SB: 1 Darksteel Colossus
SB: 1 Burrenton Forge-Tender
SB: 1 Umezawa's Jitte

For the blind, the combo is lark + double + entity + fanatic.

You dread back the lark, sac it to a therapy, win. The sideboard is versatile, and 2-of sideboard cards can be boarded in as 1-of Call targets.

SSG enables a turn 1 win, which while uncommon, isn't THAT uncommon. I've pulled it off two or three times since picking the deck back up.

About some sideboard choices: Burrenton protects the Illusionist vs burn, Jitte can be fetched with a Steelshaper's Gift against some decks with too much graveyard hate, or some other specific situations. Keep in mind, you can hard cast Reveillark or Mirror Entity for the fat beats. :3 Darksteel Colossus I wondered about for a long time, but I finally figured it out (not recently.)

With 7 cards in your hand, you will never deck yourself with a colossus in the deck or wished for. AKA, he's for the life combo, in case your opponent is retarded and doesn't concede, AND you can't get a wincon for..whatever reason.

center425 · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 334

I knew Forge Tender was good x)
Anyway, for the DSC kill to work you have to leave 7 lands in your hand to keep it from being broken up by duress and the ilk. The Revillark kill is def the best kill.

aldaryn · Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 439

this is still an interesting deck for legacy, but i'm not sure when you're gonna use it in 1.x before the big switcheroo

however, i believe the whole reveillark kill stays legal, so i guess we just need to find a new way to flip our library over....no cabal therapy is rough though

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 706

just play bubble hulk if you want to reveilark kill someone

center425 · Joined: 06 May 2006 Posts: 334

In my personal opionin that deck is worse than this.

gypsy · Joined: 15 Jun 2007 Posts: 706

i agree but i was talking to the guy who said they needed to find a new way to dumb your deck into your grave.