HFEB Guide

Core Lines

In this section, you will find the main lines the deck is built around: the cleanest, most common, and most frequently used sequences to win games with hFEB.

These are the baseline patterns you should learn first. They are not always the most complex lines available, but they are the ones that define the deck’s core game plan and come up most often across different matchups.

Hermit Kill with Akroma

The typical combat kill assembled with Hermit Druid.

Graveyard order (top to bottom):
Karmic Guide

Volrath's Shapeshifter
Cabal Therapy
Akroma, Angel of Wrath
Psychatog
Karmic Guide
  1. Activate Hermit Druid
  2. (If you are in your upkeep cast Krosan Reclamation and shuffle up to two Unearth in the deck and go to draw step)
  3. Put Karmic Guide on top of your graveyard
  4. Cast Unearth targeting Shapeshifter
  5. Shifter enters as Guide and targets Guide itself
    (do this if you want an extra body for Therapy)
  6. Guide enters and targets Psychatog
  7. Sacrifice Psychatog with Cabal Therapy
  8. Activate Shifter/Tog to pump it (at least 14 times)
  9. Reveal Akroma on top of graveyard and attack
Hermit Kill with Devourer — 20 Damage

If you can’t go into combat to kill with Akroma, you can still use Hermit and shoot with Triskelion. If you need more than 20 damage, use Animate Dead to bring back two Shifters and shuffle more cards back into the library, or you can activate Shifter/Scrounger once in your turn and once in your opponent upkeep.

Graveyard order (top to bottom):
Karmic Guide
Battlefield Scrounger
Phyrexian Devourer
Triskelion

Volrath's Shapeshifter
Psychatog
Triskelion
Phyrexian Devourer
Battlefield Scrounger
Karmic Guide
  1. Activate Hermit Druid
  2. (If you are in your upkeep cast Krosan Reclamation and shuffle up to two Unearth in the deck and go to draw step)
  3. Put Karmic Guide on top of your graveyard
  4. Cast Unearth targeting Shapeshifter
  5. Shifter enters as Guide and targets Guide itself
    (do this if you want an extra body for Therapy)
  6. Shifter/Guide enters and targets Psychatog
  7. Remove Unearth + Guide with Psychatog
  8. Reveal Battlefield Scrounger on top of graveyard
  9. Activate Shifter/Scrounger to shuffle Scrounger + Palinchron + Akroma back into the library (20 CMC)
  10. Reveal Devourer on top of graveyard
  11. Activate Shifter/Devourer 3 times
  12. Remove Devourer with Psychatog
  13. Reveal Triskelion on top of graveyard
  14. Shoot the opponent with Shifter/Triskelion
Shifter Combat Kill — with Hermit Druid

A simple line using both Hermit Druid and Volrath’s Shapeshifter on the battlefield. Go to combat, activate Druid to put Psychatog on top of the graveyard, pump Shifter/Tog, then reveal Akroma for flying and attack.

Graveyard order (top to bottom):
Psychatog
Akroma, Angel of Wrath

Akroma, Angel of Wrath
Psychatog
  1. Activate Hermit Druid
  2. Put Psychatog on top of your graveyard
  3. Activate Shifter/Tog to pump it
  4. Reveal Akroma on top of graveyard
  5. Attack with Shifter/Akroma

This line can be performed by attacking with a 0/1 Shifter and then activating Hermit in combat for an unexpected kill.

Side note: If you have both Psychatog and Hermit in play without summoning sickness, you can attack with Psychatog, activate Hermit, and eat the graveyard to pump Tog directly.

Shifter Combat Kill — with Devourer

Activate Shapeshifter/Devourer while retaining priority, then discard a card so that the Devourer sacrifice trigger never goes on the stack. You end up with a gigantic Shapeshifter ready to attack. You can use Psychatog, Survival or the Shapeshifter itself to discard any cards to prevent the sacrifice trigger to go on the stack.

Graveyard order (top to bottom):
Akroma, Angel of Wrath
Phyrexian Devourer

Phyrexian Devourer
Akroma, Angel of Wrath
  1. Discard Devourer from your hand
  2. Activate Shifter/Devourer and hold priority
  3. Discard a card from your hand
  4. Let the triggers resolve
  5. Attack with Shapeshifter

Discard a flying creature — ideally Akroma — to make Shapeshifter lethal. You can also remove the last counter from a Gemstone Mine instead of discarding a card to achieve the same result.

Classic FEB Kill

The basis of Full English Breakfast. Straightforward and uninterruptable when assembled.

Survival of the Fittest
Volrath's Shapeshifter
Phyrexian Devourer
Triskelion
  1. Start with Survival and Shapeshifter in play
  2. Discard Phyrexian Devourer to Survival
  3. Activate Shifter/Devourer X times until it has enough counters
    Let each activation resolve before the next one
  4. Discard Triskelion to Survival
  5. Shoot the opponent with Shifter/Triskelion

With all pieces in hand and in play the opponent has no chance to interact. Just be sure to have enough CMC left in the deck to kill: this is not infinite damage!

FEB Kill with Palinchron

A mana-efficient line using Palinchron to cheat on mana costs. Can be started on the opponent’s turn.

Graveyard order (top to bottom):
Palinchron
Volrath's Shapeshifter

Volrath's Shapeshifter
Palinchron
Phyrexian Devourer
Triskelion
  1. Start with Survival in play and Palinchron in hand
  2. Discard Palinchron to Survival
  3. Get Volrath’s Shapeshifter
  4. Discard Volrath’s Shapeshifter to Survival
  5. Get Phyrexian Devourer
  6. Cast Unearth targeting Shapeshifter
  7. Shapeshifter enters and you untaps up to seven lands
  8. Discard Phyrexian Devourer to Survival
  9. Get Triskelion
  10. Activate Shifter/Devourer X times until it has enough counters
    Let each activation resolve before the next one
  11. Discard Triskelion to Survival
  12. Shoot the opponent with Shifter/Triskelion

In this line, Shapeshifter and Palinchron are interchangeable, one can be discarded to get the other.

You only need 2 lands: at least one producing for Unearth and then to activate Survival twice.

If not using Unearth, pay to cast Shapeshifter and then untap at least 2 lands to discard Devourer and Triskelion.

FEB Kill with Only One Creature to Pitch

Useful when you have Survival of the Fittest out but only one creature in hand. This line can be started on the opponent’s turn, discarding creatures and sculpting your hand.

Graveyard order (top to bottom):
Karmic Guide
Phyrexian Devourer
Triskelion

Triskelion
Phyrexian Devourer
Karmic Guide
  1. Start with Survival out and a creature in hand
  2. Discard Triskelion to Survival
  3. Get Phyrexian Devourer
  4. Discard Phyrexian Devourer to Survival
  5. Get Karmic Guide
  6. Discard Karmic Guide to Survival
  7. Get Volrath’s Shapeshifter
  8. Cast Volrath’s Shapeshifter — it enters as Guide
  9. Guide targets itself
  10. Guide enters and targets Triskelion
  11. Reveal Phyrexian Devourer on top of graveyard
  12. Activate Shifter/Devourer X times until it has enough counters
    Let each activation resolve before the next one
  13. Activate Triskelion dealing damage to itself
  14. Triskelion dies and goes on top of graveyard
  15. Shoot the opponent with Shifter/Triskelion

If you have Unearth in hand, you can fetch for a Psychatog before Karmic Guide and then discard the Shapeshifter to reanimate it. In this way you need less Blu mana and its easier to set up if you start in your opponent’s turn.