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Distant Tribes Relationship.
There are a lot of tribal decks out there, Commander, standard, modern and so on.
What there are way fewer of are tribal decks focused on two or more creature types.
That is what this contest will be all about:
Cards with focus on multiple tribes.
There is no limit to the amount of tribes as long as there is at least two.
Example cards
The judging will as usual be based on creativity, balance, strengths, flavor, artwork.
But also:
The creativity of the chosen creature types: Humans and Knights are technically two different tribes but their combination is not very interesting.
If and how well they work together: Are the creature types just there together or do they work together? Kaalia does not need either Demons or Dragons in her Angel deck to do fine. Saratosha can work with either only Spirits or Pirates but probably works best with both.
Rules
Max 5 entries per person.
Up to two old cards are allowed.
If able, provide a source or artist for the artwork used.
Prizes
1st place: 3 faves of your choice plus a following (worth 2 faves).
2nd place 3 faves of you choice.
3rd place 2 faves of your choice.
Honorable mentions: 1 fave of my choice.
Deadline is Saturday 31st of August.
Good luck and happy smithing!
What there are way fewer of are tribal decks focused on two or more creature types.
That is what this contest will be all about:
Cards with focus on multiple tribes.
There is no limit to the amount of tribes as long as there is at least two.
Example cards
The judging will as usual be based on creativity, balance, strengths, flavor, artwork.
But also:
The creativity of the chosen creature types: Humans and Knights are technically two different tribes but their combination is not very interesting.
If and how well they work together: Are the creature types just there together or do they work together? Kaalia does not need either Demons or Dragons in her Angel deck to do fine. Saratosha can work with either only Spirits or Pirates but probably works best with both.
Rules
Max 5 entries per person.
Up to two old cards are allowed.
If able, provide a source or artist for the artwork used.
Prizes
1st place: 3 faves of your choice plus a following (worth 2 faves).
2nd place 3 faves of you choice.
3rd place 2 faves of your choice.
Honorable mentions: 1 fave of my choice.
Deadline is Saturday 31st of August.
Good luck and happy smithing!
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Comments
Here's My first entry, A God! I might do a weird enchantment or sorcery later.
Here's entry number 2
Edit: Nerfed the card a bit so it would be more balanced. (Special thanks to @sorinjace!)
Now for the results!
[looks through results]
Oh. Well, that's... interesting.
Honorable Mentions.
@KJMartin, @fiskerton, @TenebrisNemo
Interesting...
So that was those that got the honorable mentions. I am rather certain we won't see these smiths again...
3rd place!
@fiskerton (again)
The Green Mother
I like the theme behind this card with druids planting, ehm... plants? Then in turn the plants provides for the druids. Where I think this card goes wrong is balance. This is very powerful, too powerful. If it was 4 mana or so I think it would have made a much stronger argument for itself but as of now it is my pick for third card since it does what I want out of these cards, creatures that rely upon the other.
2nd place!!
@KJMartin (again)
Order of High Skirsdag
I really like both the concept of clerics sacrificing themselves for their demonic overlords return and the playability of this card. One strength of this card that I think is actually a flaw is the anthem for Clerics. What I mean is that I believe when the dust settles this would be leading an army of battle hungry clerics instead of a few demonic overlords and their sacrificial servants.
1st place!!!
@TenebrisNemo (again)
Korppi, Soul Snatcher
Just like the two earlier cards, this card works best when both tribes are just together in some relation. One unsupported tribe is used to help the other tribe, in this case being angels killing to make birds. I do believe that Order of High Skirsdag is more interesting and fun to play with but Korppi is better at fortifying the distant tribal relationship.
Ha! I finished with the same words as the name of the contest. Because that is what heroes do!... or just bored dudes at their computers.
Winners, please post links to the cards you want to have faved.
2 for Fiskerton, 3 for KJMartin and 5 for Tenebris.
Thank you all for taking part in this contest and see you next time!
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/mischievous-fox-1
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/leluka-archer-1
I made the Green Mother 2-CMC because I felt like druids and plants weren't a strong enough tribe to warrant a high CMC. Almost all druids are ramp based but not really powerful on their own, so I considered drawing a druid to not be as good as drawing a card in general.
@Jonteman93 - Thank you for hosting, it was very fun to think of ways to strengthen the ties of different tribes. Fave these five cards, please:
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-phantoms-return
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/tear-off-the-mask
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/the-phantom-of-the-opera-2
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/bee-queens-elite
https://mtgcardsmith.com/view/helheim-executioner