5C Tribally Tribal

Commander / EDH Allies Budget Changeling

Savage1988

Land (37)

• 1x Ally Encampment
• 1x Ancient Amphitheater
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Base Camp
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Flamekin Village
• 2x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Gilt-Leaf Palace
• 1x Haven of the Spirit Dragon
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 2x Island
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Mutavault
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Secluded Glen
• 1x Steam Vents
• 2x Swamp
• 1x The World Tree
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Wanderwine Hub
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Changelings (20)

• 1x Changeling Outcast
• 1x Mothdust Changeling
• 1x Universal Automaton
• 1x Amoeboid Changeling
• 1x Guardian Gladewalker
• 1x Impostor of the Sixth Pride
• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Shapesharer
• 1x Skeletal Changeling
• 1x Unsettled Mariner
• 1x Woodland Changeling
• 1x Arcane Adaptation
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x The Bears of Littjara
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Irregular Cohort
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Valiant Changeling

Ramp (9)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Rooftop Storm

Buff (3)

• 1x Akoum Battlesinger
• 1x Cloudshredder Sliver
• 1x Gallia of the Endless Dance

Tutors (3)

• 1x Pyre of Heroes
• 1x Forerunner of the Coalition
• 1x Coveted Prize

Commander (1)

Value (10)

• 1x Ondu Cleric
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
• 1x Atla Palani, Nest Tender
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Seafloor Oracle
• 1x Sea Gate Loremaster
• 1x Spoils of Adventure
• 1x Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Win (10)

• 1x Halimar Excavator
• 1x Jwari Shapeshifter
• 1x Kalastria Healer
• 1x Agadeem Occultist
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Unified Front
• 1x Hagra Diabolist
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Turntimber Ranger

Removal (7)

• 1x Tuktuk Scrapper
• 1x Coercive Recruiter
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Scourge of Valkas
• 1x Cyclone Summoner
• 1x Realm-Cloaked Giant
• 1x Reaper King

Maybeboard

Other (4)

• 1x Avian Changeling
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
• 1x Haunting Voyage

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5C Tribally Tribal

A long long time ago, back when original Zendikar was new ...

I fell in love with allies during draft. One thing led to another and my first ever MTG deck was born, which was basically a bunch of allies, using Harabaz Druid for ramp, Ondu Cleric for life-gain and finishing with a pseudo-combo of Genesis Wave for a lot into Halimar Excavator s + Jwari Shapeshifter s or copying the excavator with Rites of Replication for a mill finish. The math was always a bit of a pain, but the milling was lethal surprisingly fast. Given an empty board hitting 3 excavators (or shapeshifters) and 1 other ally would often result in a kill, assuming 60-card libraries and turn 5 or 6. (More for my own sake than yours, here's the way the math works: Each excavator trigger mills 4 (1/ally). Each excavator or copy has 4 triggers (1/ally), thus 16 milled per excavator. 16 * 3 (1/excavator) = 48 cards. That'll often do it on turn 5. Rites or replication was more reliable: getting 5 halimar excavators would result in 6(allies on board)6(excavators to trigger)5(ETBs) = 180 cards.

Enamored with the list for a while, allies fell by the wayside eventually and neither Battle for Zendikar nor Zendikar Rising were much of a boon to the tribe.

Fast-forward ~12 years I'm into EDH, looking for yet another new deck to build (no it's not an addiction, go away). I'm reading this tribal tribal primer on MTGGoldfish when Harabaz Druid and Seafloor Oracle are mentioned and my heart skips a beat. "Is there actually an ally deck I've been missing?! How did this happen? I'm a fool!" Turns out: no there isn't. Not really. It's just these 2 allies and a ton of guys pretending.

The thing is: the tribal tribal "deck" isn't really a deck but more of a core of changelings adapting to your needs. Any tribe can be built with that core. So I went and built the ally deck anyway.

About the deck:

1. It's 5C
2. It's my cheapest deck to date
3. It's not optimized
4. It's not actually just allies (allies are cool, but have you seen these other tribal effects?! insert guy looking over the shoulder meme - there's also: party, pirates, dwarves, elementals, slivers, giants, dragons, merfolk, zombies, ninjas, satyrs, eggs, sphinxes and scarecrows)

Deck goals:

• Deck an opponent with Genesis Wave into Halimar Excavator
• Deck an opponent with Rite of Replication into Halimar Excavator
• Take out an opponent with a massive attack from Akoum Battlesinger
• Win with Maskwood Nexus or Arcane Adaptation + The World Tree
• Go infinite with Maskwood Nexus or Arcane Adaptation + Turntimber Ranger
• Win with Liliana's Contract

I hope you like the idea (hit that +1 ;)), let me know if you love allies just as much as i do and you think there's any glaring omissions (keep in mind that it's hard to find cards that don't fit though, most choices are personal preference)

Possible additions:

• a land
• More (budget) clones to serve as ally copies (phyrexian metamorph, clever impersonator, etc)
• Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
• Haunting Voyage for mass recursion (great against mill)
• Avian Changeling
• Crib Swap

Possible cuts

• Kalastria Healer
• Akoum Battlesinger
• Scourge of Valkas (too mana intensive?)

Date added	3 days
Last updated	23 hours
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	5 - 0 Mythic Rares 47 - 0 Rares 22 - 0 Uncommons 18 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.43
Tokens	Copy Clone, Treasure, 2/2 Shapeshifter, 0/1 Egg, 1/1 Kor Ally, 2/2 Wolf
Folders	Uncategorized