Welcome back to Tribal Apocalypse!
Table of Contents
- Last Week on Tribal Apocalypse...
- The High Price of Winning
- Announcement Time!
- What's Next
Check the full archive for the "Diaries of the Apocalypse" series
THOUGHTS OF A TRIBAL HOST
by Kumagoro
So, as promised during his interview, MisterMojoRising finally managed to take a Restore Balance deck to 1st place. It's a curiously inconsistent archetype, nonetheless worth of a Purification for the main signature card of the tribe that best exploits it: Greater Gargadon. This means it's likely one and done for Restore Balance Beasts in Pure events, but there's still a chance for the lesser tribal choices that are able to build around suspends bad boy.
Pictured: on the left, banned; on the right, still around.
In other news, you might have noticed how Battle for Zendikar is still not supported by Gatherling. This will be fixed soon, as Gatherling's current updater longtimegone is working on it (and by the next set, there will be an automatic updater in place, hopefully). Thanks all for the patience and longtimegone for the efforts!
LAST WEEK ON TRIBAL APOCALYPSE...
- Event Number: 5.47, Week 256 BE
- Date: November 28
- Attendance: 16
- Rounds:
- Subformat: Pure
- Winner: MisterMojoRising (Beast)
- 1 Loss: Gq1rf7 (Myr), NemesisParadigm (Assassin), Chamale (Goblin), ScionOfJustice (Spirit)
- Underdog Prize: Golden_Lin (Bear)
- Tribes: Assassin, Bear, Beast, Cleric, Demon, Eldrazi, Goblin (x2), Insect, Myr (x2), Scout, Spirit, Warrior, Zombie (x2)
- Event link (with all players, pairings, standings, decks, and results): here it is
And here's the 5-color list that gave Restore Beasts the highest honor thanks to an undefeated score after so many attempts by MisterMojoRising and others. Wait, 69 cards? Was that the secret? (It's not a sexual innuendo).
And this is the deck that officially brings comeback champ NemesisParadigm back into the fold (the fold that wins prizes, that is). Recurring Assassin, uh? Sounds appropriate.
Finally, ScionOfJustice is still going at full throttle, speeding towards the end of the season and his final #1 place in the leaderboard. This time with a cute Spirit deck that's mostly enchantments (and in fact got him that one achievement).
THE HIGH PRICE OF WINNING
Here's the prices of all the featured decks, courtesy of the amazing Deck Pricer from mtgGoldfish (MTGO Traders prices as of December 4, 2015):
- MisterMojoRising's Beasts: $13.66
- NemesisParadigm's Assassins: $25.80
- ScionOfJustice's Spirits: $97.11
The Top 10 Cheapest Decks that Went Undefeated
- mihahitlor's Warriors, $1.95, 1st place on Event 233
- morpphling's Goblins, $2.35, 2nd place on Event 102
- JogandoPelado's Berserkers, $2.80, 1st place on Event 248
- Gq1rf7's Goblins, $3.32, 1st place on Event 154
- MisterMojoRising's Insects, $3.55, 2nd place on Event 201
- Gq1rf7's Goblins, $3.58, 1st place on Event 169
- Gq1rf7's Goblins, $3.70, 1st place on Event 145
- Gq1rf7's Goblins, $4.12, 2nd place on Event 141
- Gq1rf7's Assassins, $4.18, 1st place on Event 147
- mihahitlor's Goblins, $4.22, 1st place on Event 240
NOTE: not adjusted to current prices; data collected since Event 85.
ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!
Just to remind you of a few things:
Cockatrice Wants You! And Badger, too! Be the first to win a match with these new eligible tribes and you'll win a 1-tix certificate from MTGO Traders. Remember: only tribes with at least 3 members are effectively considered tribes in Tribal Apocalypse (since tribes that field an equal or greater number of Changelings than actual members count as Shapeshifter decks). Tribes with exactly 3 members are allowed to play in Underdog events with 8 slots filled by Changelings, whereas nobody else (but, of course, Shapeshifter decks) can play with more than 4 Changelings in those events.
The Underdog Prize: During any event of the regular rotation (but not during the one-time special events), all players who are running an Underdog Tribe are eligible for a 1-tix credit on Pennybot. The tie-breakers are first the number of Underdog categories (for instance, a tribe that's simultaneously Endangered and Unhallowed will take the prize over one that's only Endangered), then the points achieved in the final standings. During Underdog events, only the True Underdog tribes are rewarded (those are the tribes belonging to all three categories of Underdog at once).
The Up-and-Coming Prize: When a tribe wins an event for the first time ever (losing Unhallowed status), its pilot will get a 3-tix certificate from MTGO Traders.
The Hamtastic Award: The Biodiversity Prize dedicated to the memory of Erik Friborg has started the fourth quarter of 2015. The quarter will end December 26. By that date, the player or players who registered the greatest number of different tribes will get a 5-tix certificate from MTGO Traders. Congratulations to last quarter's winner, Generalissimo!
The Achievements (sponsored by AJ_Impy and vantar6697): Unlock the greatest number of Achievements from this list and AJ and vantar will grant you 10 tix per quarter! The current quarter will end December 26. Players with the same number of achievements will split the prize. 10 more tix will be given at the end of the year to that whole season's Achievement Master. Good luck and congratulations to last quarter's Achievement Master, Generalissimo!
The Top Players Lockout: Every time a Top Player (either a Google Era Top 8, an Ultimate Champion/Tribal Player of the Year, or a seasonal Top 8) will end undefeated, they will not be allowed to register the same tribe and deck again for 5 events (i.e. they'll have to register a different deck or decks 5 times before coming back to the undefeated one). With "deck" is meant a specific, recognizable archetype (e.g. Wall-Drazi), which in some case will be linked to a specific combo card (e.g. Helm of Obedience). A list of the current lockouts is maintained here.
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WHAT'S NEXT
The upcoming Tribal Apocalypse events of the Blippian Era (every Saturday at 17:00 GMT):
- 5.48 (Week 257 BE), on December 5: Underdog
- 5.49 (Week 258 BE), on December 12: Regular
- 5.50 (Week 259 BE), on December 19: Regular
- 5.51 (Week 260 BE), on December 26: Pure
Check out all the rules for the sub-formats!
Check out the full Tribal Calendar for 2015!
Vote for your favorite Board Sweeper on the Topdeck Awards!
SEE YOU ALL IN THE TRIBAL ROOM!
