5C Tribally Tribal

Commander / EDH* Allies Budget Changeling

Savage1988

Land (38)

• 1x Ally Encampment
• 1x Ancient Amphitheater
• 1x Ancient Ziggurat
• 1x Arcane Sanctum
• 1x Branchloft Pathway  ^Flip
• 1x Command Tower
• 1x Crumbling Necropolis
• 1x Exotic Orchard
• 1x Fabled Passage
• 1x Forbidden Orchard
• 1x Forest
• 1x Frontier Bivouac
• 1x Gilt-Leaf Palace
• 1x Hengegate Pathway  ^Flip
• 2x Island
• 1x Jungle Shrine
• 1x Mana Confluence
• 1x Mountain
• 1x Murmuring Bosk
• 1x Mystic Monastery
• 1x Nomad Outpost
• 1x Opulent Palace
• 1x Path of Ancestry
• 1x Plains
• 1x Rejuvenating Springs
• 1x Sandsteppe Citadel
• 1x Savage Lands
• 1x Seaside Citadel
• 1x Secluded Glen
• 1x Spectator Seating
• 1x Swamp
• 1x The World Tree
• 1x Unclaimed Territory
• 1x Vault of Champions
• 1x Wanderwine Hub
• 1x Yavimaya Coast
• 1x Zagoth Triome

Win (7)

• 1x Halimar Excavator
• 1x Genesis Wave
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Molten Echoes
• 1x Rite of Replication
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Turntimber Ranger

Changelings (21)

• 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 Avian Changeling
• 1x Mirror Entity
• 1x Mistwalker
• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Taurean Mauler
• 1x The Bears of Littjara
• 1x Graveshifter
• 1x Irregular Cohort
• 1x Maskwood Nexus
• 1x Valiant Changeling

Ally synergy (10)

• 1x Akoum Battlesinger
• 1x Halimar Excavator
• 1x Harabaz Druid
• 1x Jwari Shapeshifter
• 1x Kalastria Healer
• 1x Ondu Cleric
• 1x Tuktuk Scrapper
• 1x Hagra Diabolist
• 1x Sea Gate Loremaster
• 1x Turntimber Ranger

Removal (10)

• 1x Masked Vandal
• 1x Crib Swap
• 1x Feline Sovereign
• 1x The Bears of Littjara
• 1x Peer Pressure
• 1x Tuktuk Scrapper
• 1x Crux of Fate
• 1x Cyclone Summoner
• 1x Realm-Cloaked Giant
• 1x Reaper King

Tutors (2)

• 1x Pyre of Heroes
• 1x Coveted Prize

Commander (1)

Ramp (11)

• 1x Sol Ring
• 1x Arcane Signet
• 1x Beastcaller Savant
• 1x Gemhide Sliver
• 1x Harabaz Druid
• 1x Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1x Manaweft Sliver
• 1x Chromatic Lantern
• 1x Dragon's Hoard
• 1x Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• 1x Risen Reef

Changeling enhancer (10)

• 1x Cloudshredder Sliver
• 1x Magda, Brazen Outlaw
• 1x Feline Sovereign
• 1x Malcolm, Keen-Eyed Navigator
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
• 1x Call to the Kindred
• 1x Seafloor Oracle
• 1x Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign
• 1x Reaper King

Draw (9)

• 1x Realmwalker
• 1x Risen Reef
• 1x Yuriko, the Tiger's Shadow
• 1x Graveborn Muse
• 1x Seafloor Oracle
• 1x Liliana's Contract
• 1x Sea Gate Loremaster
• 1x Spoils of Adventure
• 1x Unesh, Criosphinx Sovereign

Other synergy (1)

• 1x Graveshifter

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Changeling enhancer (3)

• 1x Gallia of the Endless Dance
• 1x Atla Palani, Nest Tender
• 1x Coercive Recruiter

Draw (1)

• 1x Gallia of the Endless Dance

Other (2)

• 1x Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero
• 1x Haunting Voyage

Removal (1)

• 1x Coercive Recruiter

Ally synergy (1)

• 1x Agadeem Occultist

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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:

Possible cuts

• Scourge of Valkas
• Kalastria Healer
• Halimar Excavator
• Akoum Battlesinger

Date added	3 years
Last updated	2 years
Legality	This deck is Commander / EDH legal.
Rarity (main - side)	4 - 0 Mythic Rares 48 - 0 Rares 21 - 0 Uncommons 21 - 0 Commons
Cards	100
Avg. CMC	3.32
Tokens	Copy Clone, Shapeshifter 1/1 C, Shapeshifter 2/2 C, Shapeshifter 2/2 U, Spirit 1/1 C, Treasure, Wolf 2/2 G