Tribe's Contest?

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Captain Caveman

Guest
Would anyone be interested in a Tribe's deck-building contest?

With all the Onslaught tribal card I thought it might be kind of
fun. I've been working on a few myself but its a lot more
interesting to see what other people come up with.

If there are a few people interested I can offer some type of
foil prize to the winner. Probably not much but its something.

I can set up an end date and we can judge it like we've done
in the past. Everyone votes for their favorite deck and the
one with the most votes would be considered the winer.

For anyone interested in this idea you can do a search under
may name, in the decks section, and find the complete
deck-building rules.


The basic rules in a nutshell:

Play with at least ninety cards in your deck,
and with at least 30 tribe cards.

A minimum of 25 tribe creatures must be in your
deck.

Each non-basic land card may only be played
once, except for tribe cards.

Creatures that are not of your tribe are banned.


Color hosers are out of the question. The
definition of a color hoser used for this rule is:
A card that benefits from the existence of more
than one other card of a certain color or type.
Good examples of hosers are Flashfires, Perish,
Crackdown, and Compost. Hosing abilities imbued in
creatures or lands just cannot be activated. So a
Northern Paladin looks to the North, my son, and
only finds himself to be an overcosted Hill Giant.


Tribe hosers are out of the question. You
thought Tivadar’s Crusade would be the nuts? You
thought Spike Cannibal would be les noisettes? You
thought Suleiman's Legacy would be die Nüssen?
That Extinction would be de nootjes? That Tsabo’s
Decree would be przypis? Well, you can take your
tasty crunchy snacks somewhere else, for those
kind of cards are all banned, as is the following
list of cards:

Ashnod’s Altar
Balance
Celestial Convergence
Channel
Chaos Orb
Coat of Arms
Conspiracy
Demonic Tutor
Doomsday
Divine Intervention
Earthcraft
Falling Star
Goblin Bombardment
Limited Resources
Mind Over Matter
Mind Twist
Memory Jar
Phyrexian Altar
Portcullis
Planar Portal
Price of Progress
Primal Order
Regrowth
Reins of Power
Shaharazad
Strip Mine
Thieves' Auction
Time Walk
Unnatural Selection

Just wondering,

Captain Caveman
your local Tribe's supporter
 
S

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
although my entry from last time probably wouldn't change all that much.

I could put the contest on the front page if you want; or it can just be "within the forums"
 
S

Spiderman

Administrator
Staff member
It's basically Type 1/anything. All cards are acceptable except what's on the banned list and tribe/color hosers, like he lists above.
 
T

train

Guest
I'm game... Well, actually I'm married - but i'll participate!...:rolleyes: :D
 
C

Captain Caveman

Guest
Spidy,

Its alright with if you put a link on the front page. Its totally up to you.


As a special challenge, I'll give my foil Read the Runes to the
person who comes up with the most creative Tribe's deck. I
know the most creative is really subjective but I'll try to be
as open-minded about the creativity as possible. That my not
be that good of a foil but its probably the best foil I have.
 
R

rkoelsch

Guest
Say Captain, I like to help generate some interest. I can add a playset(that's 4) of Academy Rectors if you want.
 
T

train

Guest
I've got 2 foils to throw in for the heck of it...

Charging Slateback and Meddle...

Who do I send them to???

And uhhh... I noticed Coat of Arms was banned... cute, real cute!!!...
 
C

Captain Caveman

Guest
4 Rectors...WoW...if you want to add them to the prize pool thats
ok with me.


train,
You can hold on two them until after the contest voting is done
or you can send them to me to distribute. I can PM you with my
address if you want.



We've got a pretty good prize pool.

Thanks everyone.
 
T

train

Guest
PM-ing your address would be fine - they'd be mailed out Mon. from work... I have a petty cash account!!!... Yippee!!!....;) :cool:

By the way - in case you were a fan or are... Bob Knight was pretty cool to be around, until we moved from Lubbock to San Angelo...
 
T

theorgg

Guest
Unless the judging is after abour January 10th, I'm gonna miss the contest...

Awww... and I had a good thought of a deck, too...

well, if erratta isn't counted...
 
C

Captain Caveman

Guest
theorgg,

Please go ahead and enter the contest. We can wait until after
the 10th to do the judging. I would say that current erratta
would have to be followed though.:( sorry
 
I

Istanbul

Guest
Rules question:

A creature has multiple types...say, Bird Wizard.

That creature may be played in:
A) Wizard decks
B) Bird decks
C) Bird or Wizard decks
D) Bird Wizard decks (good luck!)
E) A different format, bucko
 
C

Captain Caveman

Guest
Short answer....

All of the above except for "E"



Additional Tribal info.........

A Tribe is a race of creatures, like Apes or Giants
or Clerics. Each deck has to be of a single tribe
and may therefore only contain creatures of the
chosen tribe. All other cards may only be included
once, except when the name of the tribe appears on
the card.

So a Vampire tribe may play with four Vampiric
Tutors and with four Sengir Vampires, but only
with one Terror and with no Hypnotic Specters at
all.

But sometimes a creature is of a certain tribe,
while its creature type isn’t. To stay in the
Vampiric mood, let’s consider Baron Sengir. He is
very definitely a Vampire, yet his creature type
is Legend. Here’s the rule covering this: The name
of a tribe has to be an existing creature type,
but a tribe creature doesn’t have to be of that
type. As soon as the name of the tribe appears on
the card, it is a tribe card. So Baron Sengir is a
Vampire, because he is able to regenerate
Vampires. (If the baron didn’t have that cool
ability, it would have been a terrible waste. He
wouldn’t have been allowed in a Vampire deck. God
praise R&D for the regeneration ability!) Now, of
course, only the English wording of cards is
accepted. Otherwise, Vampiric Tutor wouldn’t be
allowed in a Vampire deck: It is called
Blutsaugender Lehrmeister in German!

This deck also allows cool spells to be of a
certain tribe. I reckon the Death tribe wouldn’t
be much more than a hassle if Living Death been a
card of its tribe. So for example, the Shade tribe
is allowed to play with four Frozen Shades, four
Ihsan's Shades, four Scents of Nightshade, and
four Nightshade Seers. Only one Vampiric Tutor is
allowed, and Sengir Vampire is forbidden.

There will always be the misanthrope who tries and
bend these rules: He will say "Ants" are his
tribe, then stuff his deck full of ANTS, instANTS,
enchANTments, giANTS and plANTS. This has to be
foiled, and that is done by this rule: The name of
your tribe that appears on the card has to include
the the meaning of the name of your tribe. For
example: the ant in enchantment doesn’t mean "tiny
little insect that steals the show in A Bug’s
Life." And the monk in Crimson Kobolds doesn’t
mean ‘inhabitant of a monastery,’ either.
(Still searching for the monk? It’s in ‘summon
kobold.’)

Now to get all the other rules concerning the
tribeness of a card out of the way: The name of
the tribe may be mentioned in any way. So an Elf
tribe may, of course, play with Elves. It may also
play with Elvish stuff. Or Elven stuff. Or
anything else, so long as the word links back to
Elf.

Now for some shadier stuff: the Brother tribe may
use up to four copies of Sisters of the Flame. Or
of Mother of Runes. Or of Uncle Istvan.
Grandmother Sengir. Child of Gaea.

The King tribe could consist of four copies of
each of King Suleiman, Sorceress Queen, Sliver
Queen, Kingfisher, King Crab, Pixie Queen, King
Cheetah, and, last but not least (but certainly
most unexpected), Royal Assassin. Or did you have
another adjective in mind for King?

The only weird declination that is not allowed is
the denial of a tribe or the name of a tribe that
is also a game rule. Examples of both rules:
Juggernaut, with its ability not to be able to be
blocked by walls, isn’t a Wall card — and neither
is Unnatural Selection, which mentions non-wall
somewhere. And where Nether Shadow is a viable
Shadow tribe card, Soltari Lancer isn’t, as the
Shadow word on that card is the name of a game
rule.

But what if your beloved tribe only has seven
different cards? This way a legal deck can never
be made — and we were so close! Only two cards
short of the minimum...But never fear, a legend
may be recruited in those special occasions. Just
think of a legend that could conceivably be of
your tribe.

So let’s say seven different hippos existed and a
twisted mind would want to build a hippo tribe
deck. He would have to ask permission to use a
legend as a hippo. When he approaches me to ask if
Rith, the Awakener is a viable hippo, I’d slap him
in response. Or maybe I’d tell some one to slap
him. (Or maybe I’d just tell him I wouldn't allow
it.) But would he ask me permission to use
Phelddagrif, I’d pat him on the back and wish him
luck with his deck.

Cards that become creatures, like Opal Archangel,
count towards the twenty-five card minimum. The
same goes for token generators like Sacred Mesa:
That is a valid Pegasus creature in tribes.
 
I

Istanbul

Guest
One more question...

How many decks can we enter? Because I have several in mind already.
 
T

train

Guest
So I now have to go back and change my deck a bit... no problem...:rolleyes: ;)
 
C

Captain Caveman

Guest
We(our group )has enjoyed it quit abit....

Props to all envolved....;)

Without that original article I would have never known about
Tribes. We base all of our rules and playing off that article.
 
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newdadpoet

Guest
Would that I were!

I am not young as he.
I am not as good-looking as he.
I don't speak as many languages as he.
I don't play Magic as good as he.

I am just a Tribes fan who has had the pleasure of corresponding with "The Man" via emails. He's quite a charming guy, takes the time to give replies and hints and such when I barrage him with deck questions.

I am quite the fan of Tribes myself, it has offered me more fun than any other Magic format, bar none.

And the clerics are coming, O my brothers....

John
 
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