yum, breakfast.

Wish i could write a primer but im not good enough for that. This deck has evolved from karador boonweaver stax, to 4c hulkflash stax after the new partner commanders were relased. Now i run both stax hulkflash, and this the version that abuses the Cephalid breakfast combo.

Lines of play: Our main goal is to get our whole library into the GY as fast as possible. there are 2 ways of doing this. Hermit druid, and hulk flash grabbing nomads en-kor, and cephalid illusionist.

the first line of play requires 2 cards in hand to go off, flash, and protean hulk. preferably with counterspell protection or telepathy on the field to asses our opponents available options for removal or countermagic.

the second line of play is just tutoring up hermit druid, milling ourselves out, activating haunted dead to give us 3 creatures to sacrifice to dread return bringing back necrotic ooze.

the combo is as follows:----------------------------

cards needed:

1.Channeler Initiate

2.Devoted Druid

3.Wall of Roots

4.Cephalid Illusionist

6.blighted Bat

7.Hermit Druid

  1. narcomebeoa

  2. bloodghast

10.Necrotic Ooze

11.dread return

Get your whole library into your graveyard,either by hulk flashing nomads en-kor, cephalid illusionist, any 1cmc creature, and grand abolisher into play, or just straight up milling yourself with hermit druid, dont drop your land until you mill out to bring back bloodghast. and narcomebeoa will come in.

after you have milled your library

Flashback Dread Return, targeting Necrotic Ooze

1.Use Wall of Roots ability, putting a -0/-1 counter on ooze to make G

2.Use that G to pay for Blighted Bat's ability, giving ooze haste

3.Use a random Mana dork's ability to make one Mana and tap ooze

4.Use Devoted Druid's ability to put a -1/-1 counter on ooze then untap it

5.Use Channeler Initiate's ability, removing the -1/-1 counter to make one Mana of any colour(Loop steps 4 and 5 to make infinite Mana of any colour)

6.Use Walking Ballista's ability to put infinite +1/+1 counters on Nooze

7.Use Walking Ballista's other ability, removing +1/+1 counters to ruin everyone's life total

For both lines of play the combo will take at a minmum 10 card slots, which is a lot. Though dont fear if you are transitioning from hulkweaver there are a plethora of cards you can cut that no longer have a use in the deck. academy rector, pattern of rebirth, saffi, renegade ralliers, all your sac outlets, buried alive. you can cut entomb, and a few reanimation spells starting with necromancy, on top of all your stax cards.

This deck is fast, faster than hulkweaver and less able to be disrupted(with the first iteration of hulk's trigger grabbing everything and grand abolisher). stax are meta dependent i know, pick and choose wisely which ones you keep if you keep any.

after cuts you should have quite a few slots available to you with the addition of the combo. I personally fit 4 other 1-2cmc counterspells, memory's journey(which we will get into later) and telepathy(which is a must for this deck)

Last resort!

we have included Lab maniac into to deck. because we are going to be milling our whole library. if for some reason other lines of play dont work out. you can always dread return(or reanimate through other means) labman and draw a card with SDP, or by flashing back deep analysis. If your dread return does not work out, you can always memory's journey to return 3 cards to the top of your library. Lab man, hapless researcher, and git probe if you decide to play it. As ive said, this is kind of a last resort if you get blown out. which may happen

This deck is fast, has many sub par dedicated card slots. but functions elegantly. I like both hulkweaver stax, and the breakfast combo version. but i believe that the latter is functionally better, more resilient, and less able to be disrupted by opponents. Another thing i might note. is that the 10 slot card combo suite will inevitably have you ending up with a few combo pieces in your hand when you dont want them. There are a few ways of getting rid of them, scroll rack, phantasmagorian, brainstorm, fauna shaman, and survival of the fittest.

this deck is still a work in progress, if you have any input please leave a comment, i could be missing quite a few cards that would make the deck better, but ive kind of brewed this on my own, with the help of the age old legacy combo of illusionist+nomads en-kor, and some help from people on discord, and r/cedh.

feedback and comments are welcome and needed. As it is still a work in progress im sure im missing some key cards that would be vital to the deck, but i have not thought of them yet, so until i learn a little more this is the rough draft.

if you made it this far, thanks for reading and good luck.

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Date added 7 years
Last updated 7 years
Legality

This deck is not Commander / EDH legal.

Rarity (main - side)

13 - 0 Mythic Rares

55 - 0 Rares

14 - 0 Uncommons

18 - 0 Commons

Cards 100
Avg. CMC 1.86
Tokens Bird 2/2 U, Emblem Jace, Vryn's Prodigy
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