I'm writing this the very night of the event, since tomorrow, Sunday 11, I'm leaving for my annual trip to the Annecy Animation Film Festival. I'll be there all week, so I'm still there while you folks from the future are reading this, and ML_Berlin will kindly replace me in my hosting duties for next Saturday. In the meantime, here's some classic abstract animation with no camera involved (it's scratched directly on film) by Canadian animation legend Norman McLaren.
Event link (with all players, pairings, standings, decks, and results): here it is
Second win in 3 weeks for TLR and his (Cephalid Breakfast) renaissance (deck list is the same as the first time), which managed to beat in the finals Golden_Lin's toolbox Natural OrderElves, in turn close to what BoozeMongoose piloted to first place in Event 331 one month ago. It was an uneventful Regular week at the top, so let's delve into the more Underdog tribes. Literally. Generalissimo, for instance, was playing Ally and we didn't feature those in a while, did we?
Fellow Hamtastic Award winner AJ_Impy (both of them are already cleared a total 20 different tribes in 22 events!) tackled even more unusual territory by taking for a run one of the tribes eligible for the Repopulation Award, Ouphe, which so far had been played only a single other time, more than 5 years ago, by DirtyDuck.
Feeling a bit less Underdog, but still not featured much this season, here come the Eldrazi, as designed and piloted by Sedat3D, who's one of just two players to ever play Animist's Awakening in Tribal Apocalypse (the other one was junketpo in 2015). But also Exploration, whose 3 copies alone amounted to half the cost of Sedat's deck: I didn't realize that card had become so expensive.
NOTE: not adjusted to current prices; data collected since Event 85.
ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!
Just to remind you of a few things:
The Bolas Prize: The first player to win a game by activating Nicol Bolas, Planeswalker's third ability for lethal damage will get a 3-tix credit certificate from MTGO Traders. Be cruel or go home!
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 certificate from MTGO Traders. 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 New Kids on the Block Award: When a new tribe is introduced in the game, or reaches enough members to be played as a proper tribe (i.e. at least 3 members, so you can build a deck that features 4 copies of each plus 8 Changeling creatures), the first player to score a match win with it will get a 3-tix certificate from MTGO Traders. You'll need a hard win, not a BYE or a win by no-show of your opponent. The tribes currently eligible for the award are Camel, Gremlin, Hippo, Hyena, Monkey.
The Repopulation Award: Some tribes get played only once (to get the New Kids on the Block Award) and then forgotten. Never again! Register one of the following tribes three times in different events, then play all rounds of those events with them, and you'll get a 3-tix certificate from MTGO Traders. The list of these tribes, established May 5, 2017, is as follows: Antelope, Atog, Crocodile, Goat, Homarid, Incarnation, Jackal, Leech, Licid, Manticore, Metathran, Monger, Moonfolk, Nightstalker, Octopus, Orgg, Ouphe, Ox, Processor, Rabbit, Salamander, Siren, Slith.
The Hamtastic Award: The Biodiversity Prize dedicated to the memory of Erik Friborg rewards each player who registers 10 different tribes (except Human, Elf and Goblin) during the year with a 3-tix certificate from MTGO Traders. You can go on and win the prize multiple times in the year, but you need to keep playing different tribes! (So if you manage to register 50 different tribes in one season, you can get up to 15 tix!)
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.
Wanna test your deck? Tell us when you're online, and look who else is there and when! All of this here!
WHAT'S NEXT
The upcoming Tribal Apocalypse events of the Blippian Era (every Saturday at 17:00 GMT):
"Fellow Hamtastic Award winner AJ_Impy (both of them are already cleared a total 20 different tribes in 22 events!)" - Yeah, sorry about that, missed two weeks due to family commitments.
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no idea why this is downrated.
"Fellow Hamtastic Award winner AJ_Impy (both of them are already cleared a total 20 different tribes in 22 events!)" - Yeah, sorry about that, missed two weeks due to family commitments.