Tribal

[bass]

i want your opinion about tribal format
Your deck must contain

- At least 40% creature cards of one particular creature type
- Cards that have 2 or more creature types are legal
- A Bird Soldier is legal in both Bird and Soldier decks
- Banned sets: Portal - Starter - Unglued
- Lords are not legal unless that creature’s type is listed as
a creature type for that Lord
- All Ante cards are banned

The Banned List
Ancestral Recall
An-Zerrin Ruins
Balance
Bazaar of Baghdad
Beloved Chaplain
Black Lotus
Black Vice
Call to the Grave
Channel
Chaos Orb
Commander Eesha
Contested Cliffs
Cover of Darkness
Dark Ritual
Demonic Tutor
Earthcraft
Extinction
Falling Star
Fastbond
Goblin Lackey
Goblin Recruiter
Land Tax
Lin-Sivi, Defiant Hero
Mana Crypt
Mind Twist
Mox Emerald
Mox Jet
Mox Pearl
Mox Ruby
Mox Sapphire
Noxious Ghoul
Oath of Druids
Skullclamp
Sol Ring
Steely Resolve
Strip Mine
Tenacious Relict
Time Walk
Timetwister
Tsabo’s Decree
Tutalary Serval
Unholy Grotto
Voltaic Key
Wheel of Fortune
Worldgorger Dragon
Yawgmoth’s Will

deck 1; Elf

4 Deranged Hermit
2 Elvish Champion
2 Elvish Lyrist
4 Fyndhorn Elves
4 Llanowar Elves
4 Llanowar Sentinel
4 Priest of Titania
3 Quirion Ranger
1 Rofellos, Llanowar Emissary
2 Elvish Scrapper
3 Masticore
3 Coat of Arms
2 Wirewood Herald
3 Crop Rotation

15 Forest
1 Gaea's Cradle
1 Yavimaya Hollow
1 Wirewood Lodge

deck 2; wizard/control

1 Apprentice Wizard
2 Aphetto Alchemist
2 Cloud of Faeries
1 Echoing Truth
2 Exhaustion
1 Fatespinner
2 Fog Bank
3 High Tide
2 Imagecrafter
1 Information Dealer
2 Nameless One
2 Patron Wizard
4 Prodigal Sorcerer
2 Propaganda
2 Puppeteer
1 Riptide Chronologist
1 Riptide Director
4 Thalakos Seer
4 Twiddle
1 Undo
18 Island
2 Force of Will

what do you think?

[Harlequin]

I would think that Engineered Plauge would aslo be on the banned list.  If its not, I would totaly build a black deck, and run 4.  Here is my Tribal-Shade Deck:

(modifed from another tribal post on the casual forum)

10 swamp
3  Cabal coffer
7  B. Fetch
4  dark ritual
3  Culling the Weak

4  Slithering Shade [cc = 1]
4  Nantuko Shade [cc = 2]
4  Nakaya Shade [cc = 2]
0  Dungeon Shade --- Rest in piece...
4  Frozen Shade [cc = 3]
4  Hoar Shade [cc = 4]
4  Deepwood Legate [cc = 4 or free!]

3  Bad Moon
3  Pestilence
3  Grave Pact


I would like to note that Dungeon Shade from Stronghold is NOT a stupid Shade.  Sometimes this makes me cry at night.

If E-Plauge is legal you could probably cut the badmoons and 1 grave pact for 4 plauges. 

I dont know about you guys.  But I love Pestilence + Grave pact + shades.  Its so broken in Tribal matches.  Basically as you roll on to the late game, you eventually get a Grave pact out, and a Pestilence.  Then you just win.  Use a Coffer to generate tons of mana, then boost one or two of your bigger shades up to 3 or 4 toughness.  Then just Pestilance the board first you kill all the weaklings then grave pact will handle any big guys.  This almost gaurentees that your two remaining shades will swing lethal next turn.  Its a great way to end those lategame stalemates.