Naming combo's after breakfast cereals

[ilovejess2]

Hiya,

I am fairly new to legacy and have been looking at all the decks. When reading the "Established Decks" Threads I came across the combo deck "Golden Grahams" and asked how it got its name. Someone kindly replied saying that all combo decks used to be named after cereals. This intrigued me as I could not think/find other decks named in this way. Is their some old "Kellogs" or "Crunchy nut" in Legacy's history? The only thing that I have found that come close is "Cephallid Breakfast". What other examples of this are there?

(This seemed the most relevant section of the forum in which to ask this - I did not want to continue this line of enquiry in the GG's thread as it is nothing to do with the deck)

[conboy31]

Trix (illusions of grandeur + donate)

Here is a small article on a few other decks:
http://www.phyrexia.com/magazine/LostArchives/CerealDecks.shtml

[edgewalker]

Trix, (illusions/donate combo)
Fruity Pebbles/Other Pebbles variants (Enduring Renewal/Free Sac outlet/Free creatures)

There are plenty more, but these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head while hung over.

Also, this wasn't so much a legacy trend, as it was a trend in old extended. (Urza's block era. remember the dread panda roberts? I do, I loved that deck)

[matelml]

There is also Full English Breakfast, but that's it as far as I know.

edit: Oh, and scrambled eggs in extended

[DrJones]

I wouldn't give importance to the naming pattern because all those names are the ugliest in magic and the people using them were adults behaving like 13 years old trying to sound cool.

If you are curious about the names used for combo decks, I remember "Trix" (donate + illusions of grandeur), "Full English Breakfast" (volrath's shapeshifter + survival of the fittest), "Pickles" (vesuvan shapeshifter + brine elemental), that "Golden Grahams" and I'm almost sure that the "Enduring Renewal + Goblin Bombardment" combo deck also had a cereal-based name, but I don't remember it.

Edit: Damn, I'm too slow. It was "Pebbles".

[Soldar]

If you are curious about the names used for combo decks, I remember "Trix" (donate + illusions of grandeur), "Full English Breakfast" (volrath's shapeshifter + survival of the fittest), "Pickles" (vesuvan shapeshifter + brine elemental), that "Golden Grahams" and I'm almost sure that the "Enduring Renewal + Goblin Bombardment" combo deck also had a cereal-based name, but I don't remember it.

I wouldn't lump pickles in with these, Pickles wasn't an arbitrary name, it was just playing off of Brine Elemental.

I don't know, I sort of liked it when people were naming things not directly in the deck, it feels less mechanical and more fun. At least there's not a lot of them that I can think of off hand in Legacy if you don't like it - off the top of my head:

Golden Grahams, Bomberman - Salvagers
Solidarity - High Tide
Spanish Inquisition - Culling the Weak Tendrils
Full English Breakfast

[DireLemming]

I love funky names, or maybe I'm just being nostalgic. Anyhow, off the top of my head (that's just legacy, there are heaps more in the annals of history):

Quinn The Eskimo/The Mighty Quinn, Rabid Wombat
Train Wreck, The Truffle Shuffle
The Rock
Eternal Garden
Deadguy Ale
Meathooks
Sun Tower

Borderline wtf:

Cephalid Breakfast
Spring Tide
The Game
Iggy Pop

[coraz86]

The Rock was called that by Sol Malka, one of the first (if not the first) players to make it big with the deck, because it ran a Phyrexian Plaguelord, whose art bears a striking resemblance to a certain Dwayne Johnson. It actually was called The Rock and His Millions at first, since it included a set of Deranged Hermits.

Also, Ben Rubin once played a u/w/b deck in Extended that bore a modest resemblance to Fish, and he called it Dump Truck. I don't think he ever gave a reason, but it was amusing. It was one of the first Extended GPs after duals and shit rotated out, which would've been fall of '02, I think.

[Parcher]

Rubin's deck was called Dump Truck because like most well-built Fish decks, it was an "answer" deck, or a "meta-killer". They are specifically tailored to a certain expected meta and run a ton of what should normally sideboarded "Hate" cards in the main, in expectations of the large majority of the field playing decks that would fall prey to them.

In Rubin's words, "My deck is designed to take a dump on this meta."

Hence the name.