Another week in the battle for tribal supremacy has passed with one tribe reigning supreme. Fierce battles were waged by elves, humans, golems, Illusions, horses, vampires, and two armies of soldiers. I would like to congratulate Lord Erman on completely winning the day with his deck of humans. Onwards to the fun.
In my eyes the standout deck this week was Elves played by Cheetoe. The best part was that this was no ordinary play elves make mana and burn you deck. Even the elves stretched the imagination of a typical elf deck, but still powered Cheetoe into second place. Running a collection of unloved elves he was able to power out armies of saproling tokens and pump them with various abilities and best of all Violent Ultimatum.
I tried to watch every game this deck played and seeing the number of tokens it could produce as well as the amount of damage that was possible was strictly impressive. I would like to congratulate Cheetoe on this awesome idea and wish him the best in the future.
Next up is soldiers. A deck that has only gotten more powerful with recent additions. I think with cards such as (Elspeth, Knight Errant) and Veteran Swordsmith this deck could quickly become a powerful if paired with the right removal. I think upcoming cards like Journey to Nowhere in Zendikar might be the push this deck needs to succeed. Day of Judgement or Wrath of God can also be great if the player hits Elspeth's ultimate ability.
Now onto possibly a touchy subject. The winner of week two was Humans. But not just any humans. The main goal of the deck was to assemble the Painter's Servant+Grindstone combo.
Now let me preface this entire next section saying I totally support someone's decision to play any deck desired. I for one, loved Lord Erman's deck and thought it was a great use of the human tribe since they do tend to be a little week in combat it seems. Some others who read this may disagree with me and I understand maybe turn two kills are thoroughly enjoyable for both players. However, regardless of if it is tribal or not we are playing classic which just like legacy and vintage is known for its quick combo kills. The fact that someone is able to take a classic deck and mold it to tribal standards isnt bad but rather in my mind highly creative. That was just my two cents feel free to berate/agree with me in the comments.
Onto my newest tribal decklist. Today I will look at a rather "large" tribe and a possibly fiery deck as well. The first of these decks is based solely on the power of red's biggest nastiest beasties. Dragons. Powered out on the cheap by Dragonspeaker Shaman and powered up by Crucible of Fire this deck aims to smash face for huge amounts as early as turn 4. And by huge I mean in the "I just knocked off half your life points" huge. The deck uses Dragon Fodder and Lightning Bolt to stay alive in the early turns as well.
Yes, that is Knollspine Dragon. Getting him out is what I think is critical to this deck as far as win conditions go. Playing him as your second dragon will totally refill your hand and give you the final components to finish off any opponent most of the time.
-Championship Information
As I mentioned last week there will be a Tournament of Champions. Every player who participates in Tribal Apocalypse has a chance. Points are awarded for every match win. The standings are as follows-
Lord Erman-4
Flippers_Giraffe-4
bingobongo-3
Cheetoe-2
StealthBadger-1
Well friends that is all for this week. Please join us Saturday October 3rd at 1:30 pm EST in /join Tribal for the next round of Tribal Apocalypse. Hope to see you there and lets see if your tribe of choice can live through the Apocalypse.
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Unfortunately I couldn't make it this weekend due to a very tempting barbeque offer from a friend of mine. Kids played, wifes chatted about the latest shoes and bags(as they always do) and we ate all the meat! So I got a good excuse.
By the way, what happened in week 3? Who played what? Who won?
Info? Please?
LE
lol yes yes, info as it comes. Im working on that article as we speak..but the trend has continued...the winner was a dredge deck with wizards as a tribe.
I'm definately not surprised. Graveyard manipulation is another shortcut to victory. Especially when there is no or very little main deck hate against it. Good idea, congrats to the winner.
LE
and of course, no sideboards...(grumble)
The one thing Ive noticed from AJ's and LE's articles is that there is a lot of discussion about spirit of format issues in this format. I don't think any play is wrong in tourney. As long as it is a legal play. That said combo seems to violate the spirit of the format by bypassing the need for good tribes to win. You can play any tribe that enables the combo and if you do it right you can make it consistent enough to win. I am a bit confused about where the format is going which is one reason I haven't bothered to show up for these things. The other being that I seem to not be online whenever they are scheduled. That said I think it is very cool that you are supporting this format and hope you continue to do so.
No dredge in the deck. It was Cephalid Breakfast (Cephalid Illusionist + Shuko).
Next week if I can afford the cards (or borrow some), I'll bring a different broken combo deck.
cephalid breakfast with bridge from below and dread return...it was a dredge combo skeleton since Cephalid Breakfast won from a 26/26 sutured ghoul
Cephalid Breakfast:
1 Riftstone Portal
2 Tarnished Citadel
2 Yavimaya Coast
1 Tendo Ice Bridge
1 Brushland
1 Caves of Koilos
2 Underground River
4 City of Brass
4 Forbidden Orchard
4 Chrome Mox
4 Birds of Paradise
4 Brainstorm
2 Shaman en-Kor
4 Vampiric Tutor
1 Dragon Breath
1 Sutured Ghoul
1 Krosan Cloudscraper
1 Gilded Drake
1 Krosan Reclamation
4 Nomads en-Kor
1 Kami of Ancient Law
4 Cephalid Illusionist
4 Worldly Tutor
1 Exhume
3 Cabal Therapy
2 Reanimate
Seems strong! I never seem to be available when this event's on, and can't really afford to spend on the deck I'd been thinking of.. It's a pretty obvious port that I'm surprised nobody's tried yet: Basically, copy and past an extended/legacy cascade-hypergenesis list and run it as either dragons:
4 Bogardon Hellkite
4 Hellkite Overlord
2 Karthuss, tyrant of jund
2 Rorix Bladewing
8 other hasty dragons (can't remember their names)
or angels
4 Angel of Despair
3 Akroma, angel of wrath
4 twilight shepherd
2 Redkroma
some other angels (razia, etc)
The dragon list is more likely to kill immediately, but if you can't manage an immediate kill, it's vulnerable to wrath effects. The angels build is more resilient to wraths and stuff, and can nuke anything too dangerous that they drop with aod, but will never kill the turn it goes off.
Elementals could also be fitted into the same shell, i think, but I don't really have the tickets to invest, and don't really enjoy playing combo-decks (possible exception of the casual roflthopter deck in extended).
Dont worry about Hypergenesis it's not forgotten, I've been testing it this week and its a real killer ;) 4 Bogardan Hellkite and Kokusho, the Evening Star's leaves a real mess.
Your angel deck wont work very well as you cant run multiples of the same legend, it causes lots of issues when you have the same two in your hand.
The Ultimatum I was running in my deck was the Titanic Ultimatum. Not the one you linked.
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