Cereal Killers (Modern)

Alternative Titles: Cereal Stuff, Crinkles Remembers...

Based on original idea "Cereal Killers" by Pat McCallum for Inquest Magazine #2 (#3, June 1995 , p.25)

Original Description: "I was sitting one morning eating Cap'n Crunch and waiting for The Tick cartoon to start when my mind began wandering. During that brief period of scattered mental tangents, I noticed that the ship on the box of cereal I was eating (Mm... cardboard) looked an awful lot like the Pirate Ship from Magic.

"Two thoughts entered my brain after this revelation. First, I'm playing this game way too much if I'm seeing Magic cards on cereal boxes. Second, how many more Magic cards could I find that tied into breakfast cereal? I still had a couple of minutes before The Tick started, so off I went flipping through my Magic binders.

"I only expected to find two or three more that would tie into this weird idea for a Theme Deck. Wrongorama- there were enough cards to build a whole deck. And that's what I did (during commercials). "

Original decklist: Twenty classic dual lands that would cost a limb or three nowadays, an assortment of creatures up to Ice Age representing cereal mascots, and filler loosely associated with the act of eating.

None of the cards have any evident synergy, resulting in a theme deck that's a poor excuse for the most important meal of the day.

Time for a change in the menu ...

This decklist: I've modelled this after that infamous deck that involved "Breakfast", specifically the one where En-Kors poked a Cephalid Illusionist until their owner's library is destroyed, laying bear the macabre pieces of the deck's puzzle...

Frankenstein's Monster in the original decklist invited me to build around it's Modern-Legal counterpart Sutured Ghoul as the main winning condition.

And if that fails? Guess the other cereal mascots can pick up the slack.

Note: Several cereal mascots have been removed from the original decklist. The Quaker Guy himself declined to reappear due to his pacifist beliefs. (so he claims)