{"id":216,"date":"2018-06-20T18:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T16:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2018-06-20T12:44:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-20T10:44:35","slug":"brewing-with-andy-pebbles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premodernmagic.com\/blog\/brewing-with-andy-pebbles\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewing with Andy: Pebbles"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Good morning, everyone.\u00a0 I hope you brought your favorite milk variety, because this week we’re going to dive into a couple of classic breakfast cereal-named combo decks!<\/p>\n

Cocoa Pebbles was one of my favorite decks from old, pre-rotation Extended.\u00a0 Like all the Pebbles variants, it was based around the infinite damage combo of Goblin Bombardment<\/a>,\u00a0Enduring Renewal<\/a> and a zero-mana creature like\u00a0Shield Sphere<\/a> or Phyrexian Walker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Part of what made that deck tick was the fact that it used Necropotence<\/a> as a brute force way to assemble what was a somewhat awkward three-card combo.\u00a0 Necro of course is banned in Premodern, and we also lose one of that deck’s best tutors in Demonic Consultation<\/a>.\u00a0 However, I think the archetype could still be viable in Premodern, largely thanks to a shot in the arm from another black card that has a lot of synergy in the deck: Cabal Therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Let’s take a look at the deck.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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MAIN DECK | 60 cards<\/h4>
Lands: 24<\/div>
4<\/span> City of Brass<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Gemstone Mine<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Caves of Koilos<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Remote Farm<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Ancient Tomb<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Battlefield Forge<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Sulfurous Springs<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Plains<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Peat Bog<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Phyrexian Tower<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Swamp<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Others: 12<\/div>
4<\/span> Enduring Renewal<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Goblin Bombardment<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Lotus Petal<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Yawgmoth's Bargain<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Creatures: 12<\/div>
4<\/span> Shield Sphere<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Phyrexian Walker<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Academy Rector<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Instants and Sorceries: 12<\/div>
4<\/span> Enlightened Tutor<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Cabal Therapy<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Duress<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

SIDEBOARD | 15 cards<\/h4>
3<\/span> Abeyance<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Aura of Silence<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Defense Grid<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Pyroblast<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Pyroclasm<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Seal of Cleansing<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Tormod's Crypt<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Deck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n------------------------------------------------\nPebbles\n------------------------------------------------\nMAIN DECK (60)\n\nLands: 24\n4 City of Brass\n4 Gemstone Mine\n4 Caves of Koilos\n3 Remote Farm\n3 Ancient Tomb\n1 Battlefield Forge\n1 Sulfurous Springs\n1 Plains\n1 Peat Bog\n1 Phyrexian Tower\n1 Swamp\n\nOthers: 12\n4 Enduring Renewal\n4 Goblin Bombardment\n3 Lotus Petal\n1 Yawgmoth's Bargain\n\nCreatures: 12\n4 Shield Sphere\n4 Phyrexian Walker\n4 Academy Rector\n\nInstants and Sorceries: 12\n4 Enlightened Tutor\n4 Cabal Therapy\n4 Duress\n\n\nSIDEBOARD (15)\n3 Abeyance\n1 Aura of Silence\n2 Defense Grid\n3 Pyroblast\n3 Pyroclasm\n2 Seal of Cleansing\n1 Tormod's Crypt\n------------------------------------------------\nDeck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n<\/div>
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Demonic Consultation<\/a> is relatively easy to replace with Enlightened Tutor<\/a>, which finds all three parts of the combo.\u00a0 Filling out the tutor package are four copies of Academy Rector<\/a>, which happens to be best friends with the aforementioned Cabal Therapy<\/a>.\u00a0 Therapy not only represents a very powerful disruption package along with the four copies of Duress<\/a>, it then gives you a free sac outlet for your Rector, and even gives you something to do with extra zero CMC creatures.<\/p>\n

Speaking of disruption, it’s relevant to note that without Brainstorm<\/a> in the format, targeted discard spells are at their absolute zenith in terms of making your opponent stumble on their game plan and paving the way for your own combo to go off.<\/p>\n

So now between\u00a0Cabal Therapy<\/a>, Goblin Bombardment<\/a> and Phyrexian Tower<\/a>, we have more reliable ways to be able to sac our Rector, and we also have another juicy Rector target that goes a long way towards replacing Necropotence<\/a>: the “fixed” Necro itself, Yawgmoth’s Bargain<\/a>.\u00a0 Having the one Bargain in the deck means that we can keep any hand with a quick Rector and a sac outlet, even without multiple combo pieces.\u00a0 Just go get the Bargain and like the Cocoa Pebbles of old, it should draw you into whatever you need to assemble the win.<\/p>\n

I hope you still have some appetite left, because as a bonus we have the breakfast of champions itself, Wheaties!\u00a0 This deck uses a green-based\u00a0Survival of the Fittest<\/a> engine to assemble the Pebbles combo.\u00a0 The nice thing about this version is that it has a strong B plan (actually it’s probably the A plan) of just being a classic Survival-Recur deck.\u00a0 Then out of nowhere, you Recur an\u00a0Academy Rector<\/a> a couple of times, Survival for your single copy of Shield Sphere<\/a>, and boom, the combo kill.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Wheaties<\/div>
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MAIN DECK | 60 cards<\/h4>
Lands: 23<\/div>
4<\/span> Brushland<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Llanowar Wastes<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> City of Brass<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Phyrexian Tower<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Thran Quarry<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Mountain<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Forest<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Swamp<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Reflecting Pool<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Plains<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Creatures: 26<\/div>
1<\/span> Squee, Goblin Nabob<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Wall of Roots<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Birds of Paradise<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Academy Rector<\/a><\/div>
3<\/span> Mesmeric Fiend<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Shield Sphere<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Yavimaya Granger<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Monk Realist<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Wall of Blossoms<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Radiant's Dragoons<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Ghitu Slinger<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Uktabi Orangutan<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Spike Weaver<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Akroma, Angel of Wrath<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Bone Shredder<\/a><\/div><\/div>
Others: 11<\/div>
4<\/span> Recurring Nightmare<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Survival of the Fittest<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Enduring Renewal<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Goblin Bombardment<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Oath of Ghouls<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>

SIDEBOARD | 15 cards<\/h4>
1<\/span> Avalanche Riders<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Choke<\/a><\/div>
4<\/span> Cabal Therapy<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Dwarven Blastminer<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Elvish Lyrist<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Engineered Plague<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Mesmeric Fiend<\/a><\/div>
2<\/span> Pyroblast<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Spike Feeder<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Uktabi Orangutan<\/a><\/div>
1<\/span> Worship<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Deck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n------------------------------------------------\nWheaties\n------------------------------------------------\nMAIN DECK (60)\n\nLands: 23\n4 Brushland\n4 Llanowar Wastes\n4 City of Brass\n2 Phyrexian Tower\n1 Thran Quarry\n1 Mountain\n2 Forest\n2 Swamp\n2 Reflecting Pool\n1 Plains\n\nCreatures: 26\n1 Squee, Goblin Nabob\n4 Wall of Roots\n4 Birds of Paradise\n3 Academy Rector\n3 Mesmeric Fiend\n1 Shield Sphere\n2 Yavimaya Granger\n1 Monk Realist\n1 Wall of Blossoms\n1 Radiant's Dragoons\n1 Ghitu Slinger\n1 Uktabi Orangutan\n1 Spike Weaver\n1 Akroma, Angel of Wrath\n1 Bone Shredder\n\nOthers: 11\n4 Recurring Nightmare\n4 Survival of the Fittest\n1 Enduring Renewal\n1 Goblin Bombardment\n1 Oath of Ghouls\n\n\nSIDEBOARD (15)\n1 Avalanche Riders\n1 Choke\n4 Cabal Therapy\n1 Dwarven Blastminer\n1 Elvish Lyrist\n1 Engineered Plague\n1 Mesmeric Fiend\n2 Pyroblast\n1 Spike Feeder\n1 Uktabi Orangutan\n1 Worship\n------------------------------------------------\nDeck downloaded from - http:\/\/premodernmagic.com\n<\/div>
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That’s all for now, as always you can leave feedback in the Premodern Facebook group<\/a>, or hit me up on Instagram<\/a>.\u00a0 Until next week, have fun slinging those old cards!<\/p>\n

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