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Better Know a Card Type – Tribal

better-know-a-card-type-tribal To help you design better cards, I thought it would be a good idea to know what you can do with this card game. First I looked at colors (something I’ll come back to again), and now is my overarching look at Magic.

Welcome to part 1 of my 19 part series: Better know a card type.

Today’s card type: Tribal; The Fightin’ Tribes!

Tribal is a new card type introduced in 2007 with the release of the large expansion set Lorwyn. For those that want to argue that it was infact Future Sight that first debuted Tribal you’re wrong. That set was in the future brought to us in the past by a man in a DeLorean going 88 mph. Great Scott!

57-lorwyn-nameless-inversion-jeff-miracola At the moment there are only 50 cards that have the card type Tribal in it’s card type. It’s the second smallest major card type and the third one to only feature inside a single block.

MaRo-Type Aside: For those of you wondering why I’m calling it a major card type is there have been alot of card types that have been printed. Some are still in use (Artifact) while some have been left behind (Mono Artifact). While I combined Mono and Poly artifacts into just artifacts, I’m giving some of them their own part in the series because you have to know the past to build toward the future. Yes, I’m even covering the card type with one card. Sigh, that brings back memories.

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Random Thoughts About Random Things

Editor’s Note: While the title ties in to MaRo’s post this week, my post doesn’t. This is not an After MaRo post. Warning: There are non-Magic related items in this post.

– I hope everyone had a good release event for Alara Reborn and pulled some amazing things or amazing plays. I really like how this format is really playing out. Cascade is amazing. There’s a reason you only find them on multi-color cards (besides the fact that it’s only in Alara Reborn): it is too broken of a mechanic if it was mono color. Imagine if Blue had a cascade card reading:

Cascade Spell – 2U
Sorcery
Draw a card. Cascade.

While there are some ideas of having a Cascade/Hypergenesis combo in Extended (you have to have the creature in play for it to work), it would be really broken if you could fit cascade mechanics into any deck. Cascade has to be a multi-color keyword or it’s too degenerate. I hope this is something Wizards will bring back (they sound more open to the possibility to reuse good mechanics).

– I was going to have a post last week before it got all busy on me getting ready for Opening Day of boating season here in Seattle (I was filming it). Of course, you knew that if you were following me in Twitter. Follow me and most likely I will follow you too; a tit for tat kind of thing. I still don’t know what I should tweet (besides new posts going up) and I want to hear your opinions on what I should post there:

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If Alara Reborn Art Were Movie Posters

Summer movie season starts next week with Wolverine, and that’s when Alara Reborn releases. I decided to celebrate my two favorite loves (after my wife): Magic and Movies. Let’s do some Mash-Ups and see what would happen if some art from Alara Reborn were movie posters:

Every Summer seems to have a Horror Film, and this one looks awesome as if Dead Rising, Alara and George A Romero mixed all in one. With Romero directing you know there’s some underhanded political message. It doesn’t matter, it would look awesome.

movie-poster-zombies-reborn

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After Maro – Lies! Lies and Slander!

(Editor’s Note: Not all of you get my references to jokes in titles and other areas of my posts. I understand, so I’m helping you out in this one. Watch Futurama, Season 3, The Route of All Evil. That’s as far as I’m going to help you here. Also, there’s spoilers to what Wizards have deemed alright to show on their page. If you don’t want spoilers, come back after the set has been released.)

Hello, Mark Rosewater’s desk.

Mr. Rosewater, it’s me, Robby from M:tGColorpie.

Sigh. What is it this week? Are you going to tell me you don’t like Exalted? Because I just don’t…

No, I do like Exalted.

(Beat) Excuse me?

At first I was like, “Wow, that’s kinda dumb, only one creature attacking. That’s not White, especially White Weenie.” Then I was like, “Wait, this all makes sense. All of the creatures are helping out one creature. That’s like totally White.”

I was waiting for the explosion and the “Bew bew sounds” but it sounds like you like it.

I totally do.

Good. (Beat) I’m sensing a problem.

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After MaRo – Never Gonna Give You Up

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If you don’t remember, I call MaRo every week to talk about his article of the week, or talk about anything that comes to mind. I’ve got 500 anytime minutes, I use them as I please.

Hello, this is Mark Rosewater speaking.

Hey, this is Robby ********* from M:tG Color Pie.

Oh yes, I remember you. I read that you’re back now. And Congratulations on the marriage and house.

Well, thank you. I don’t have the high paying job the lets me focus on Magic all the time like you do, but I try and get by.

Well, the come and join us here in Renton.

(Excited) Seriously?

(Laughing) No. People fall for that all the time.

Yeah, I bet they do. (I sigh)

What’s on your mind today?

Well, since you’re doing your annual State of Design column next week, I won’t tell you what I’m thinking right now. I will tell you that I’m still playing, no matter if my blog is updated or not. I guess you can say that I’m never gonna give up the game of Magic.

Never gonna let the game of Magic go?

Correct.

Never gonna run around and desert it?

Uh, sure I guess you could say that.

(Laughter)

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