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Poppy Flower Tattoo Set

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Dank-Jank Tech: Jodah Cheerios

Welp, here it is! Sorry for the long wait, I hope this makes up for it a little. Decklist is not complete, treat this post as more of guide on how to approach a Cheerios style EDH deck and what to keep in mind while building it.

What is Cheerios? No, we aren’t talking about the delicious breakfast cereal when we reference “Cheerios” in MtG! The deck archetype “Cheerios” is named such after the fact that the main win con of the deck is 0 mana costed artifacts, which resemble the O shape of a Cheerio! Now that we’ve defined Cheerios, how does it win? Cheerios win thru a few factors but primarily by taking advantage of an old boogie man mechanic called Storm! With most Cheerio combos we cycle thru loops of free casting 0 costed spells, gaining a huge storm count and then casting one giant spell (like Grapeshot) to one shot an opponent! Cheerios can also utilize EtB and LtB effects but they’re not as common. Why Jodah as our Commander? Wouldn’t Breya be a better Commander? While normally yes, I would agree that Breya is one of the best toolbox artifact commanders and would deff be a great fit for the archetype Cheerios, I don’t usually do meta, and Breya is very linear and boring to me. Don’t get me wrong, if you have Breya I fully encourage you to run her! She’s an AMAZING artifact commander, just not one I want to run in this deck. Jodah gives us access to all 5 colors of Magic, and this can be very powerful and very limiting at the same time. But that’s what makes this deck exciting! I’ve tried to work a few smaller combos and support cards into the deck to help us smooth out the rough edges that come with running 5 colors. Let’s dive right on in.

The Breakfast Cereal Combo

First off we need a creature or permanent (in this case mostly creatures) that lets us draw cards when we cast our 0 mana costed artifacts. For this purpose I enlisted Jhoira, Weatherlight Captain, Sram Senior Edificer, and Puresteel Paladin for their help. With an Artificer’s Assistant out we can filter our draws more when we cast our artifacts to get the good stuff faster. Now for the big problem we run into with running a Cheerios deck in EDH: the 99. We have a lot of cards to filter thru and cast to kill someone with 40ish life. Good thing we have a lot of 0 mana costed artifcts, to list a good few: Accorder’s Shield, Bone Saw, Chrome Mox, Claws of Gix, Dark Sphere, Darksteel Relic, Everflowing Chalice, Fountain of Youth, Kite Shield, Lodestone Bauble, Herbal Poltice, Mana Crypt, Memnite, Mishra’s Bauble, Ornithopter, Paradice Mantle, Phyrexian Walker, Mox Amber, Mox Opal, Shield Sphere, Spellbook, Spidersilk Net, Tormod’s Crypt, Urza’s Bauble, Welding Jar and Zuran Orb. That’s a fairly long list, you don’t have to use all of them but redundancy is key in EDH. Some of them also provide a nice toolbox effect with cards like Tormod’s Crypt to hose graveyard, the Moxs and Paradise Mantle to fix mana, and Spellbook to let us hold onto our big draws. We have a base for our brew!

Tutoring Effects

Generally I know that tutors can be frowned upon in certain playgroup, but for this combo, we need to assemble our pieces. For creature tutoring I’m using cards like Time of Need, Primal Command, Birthing Pod, Jarad’s Orders, Brutalizer Exarch, Eladamir’s Call, Fauna Shaman and Eldritch Evolution. I’ll explain why we run cards like Birthing Pod, Fauna Shaman and Eldritch Evolution here in just a moment, but with these cards we can tutor up most of our combo creatures or utility creatures whichever fits our need at the time.

With artifact tutoring we have Trinket Mage, Trophy Mage, Treasure Mage, Fabricate, Artificer’s Intuition, Enlightened Tutor, Tezzeret the Seeker, Whir of Invention, Sphinx’s Summoner, and Reshape. Some of these spells require the sacrificing of artifacts but fear not, we will have ways to recur them back! In EDH, only in exile can things find eternal rest.

Tutoring for the rest we run cards like Spellseeker, Mystical Tutor, Mystical Teachings, and Merchant Scroll to get our instant/sorceries and you know about black tutors like Vampiric and Demonic, I hope I don’t have to explain too much about them to cover the rest. Transmute is also an amazing ability we can’t forget about!

Now that we’ve covered all the tutors, let’s talk a bit about the utility of our permanents that tutor. The Mage trio (Trinket, Treasure, Trophy), Brutalizer Exarch and Spellseeker are good examples of why we run cards like Birthing Pod, Eldritch Evolution and Fauna Shaman. On EtB we get our tutor effect but once the creature is in play it’s done its part. We are a toolbox deck and everything has value to us in one way or another. By running Birthing Pod we can sacrifice the Trinket Mage to search up Teshar, Ancestor’s Apostle and thus bringing us to our next segment.

The Teshar Combo

This deck runs a lot of artifacts and smaller creatures, so we can take advantage of that using cards like Teshar, Ancestor’s Apostle (I’ve been trying to find a way to break Teshar so badly!). Using the Birthing Pod method we can sac Trinket Mage to the the Pod to fetch up Teshar and begin some shenanigans. You will need a free creature sac outlet (such as but not limited to: Phyrexian Altar or Ashnod’s Altar) to really keep the combo going. We can try this combo: 1) Have Ashnod’s Altar out on the field with Teshar. 2) Cast the Trinket Mage, go fetch a cheerio to hand. 3) Sacrifice the Mage to the Altar to get 2 colorless mana. 4) Play the cheerio we fetched for free to trigger Teshar, bringing back our Trinket Mage to go get another cheerio. 5) Loop as many times as needed until all your 0 and 1 mana costed artifacts are out of your deck and you have an excess of colorless mana to spend however you want. If we sacrifice Teshar to the Pod however, we can use it to go tutor up a Phyrexian Delver, and use Delver’s ability to return to our bird friend to play with the small expense of a few life, then continue to chain the Delver into bigger threats like Sun Titan and Brutalizer Exarch.

So what do I do with all this nonsense?

Win with the jankiest combos possible. I’ve shown you how the basics work and how to enable your combo, now you need to win!

Burn them to death with Molten Nursery and Grapeshot, amass an army of Golems with Golem Foundry. If you need a higher spell count, Hurkyl’s Recall and Retract can bounce your artifacts to give you more spell casts. Don’t forget about Aetherflux Resevoir either.

(After post edit: Birthing Pod and Prime Speaker Vannifar are interchangeable or run both for redundancy!)

Auntie Sidisi missed you all very much, and I hope I never take a long leave of absence again for a while! Let me know what you would run or use to streamline this deck concept! The jankier, the better I always say! What’s in a game if you’re not having fun?