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...Wow; that's freaky. That Snake deck is eerily close to my own Snake tribal deck, though mine has a slightly broader card base; I guess the basic skeleton for that kind of deck is pretty straightforward. Mine's more aggressive to suit it for playing one-on-one as well as in multiplayer, and I use Ohran Viper instead of the Ophidians, and Squall Line and Tribal Unity as alternate kills.

Might I suggest Tangle Asp and/or Sakura-Tribe Scout for replacing the Snipers? The Scout accellerates the deck incredibly well, especially with the bouncelands, and I've found that Tangle Asp is an excellent deterrent at any stage of the game.

Oh, and Chord of Calling. I cannot recommend that card enough; an end-of-turn tutor for Sosuke into an alpha strike or a surprise tutor for a Mystic Snake to stop a sweeper have won me more games than I can conveniently count.



As for other more obscure tribal decks, I have a hyperaggressive monoblack Rat deck (Swarmyard is awesome incarnate) and a Modular deck; the Modular creatures may not technically be a "tribe", but they act like it. (Yes, it contains Ravager; no, it is not Affinity.)

I had a Zombie deck based mainly on Mirrodin's Nim before I figured out that the Nim suck and it would be much, much better if I dropped the Tribal requirement.

I have been playing a very successful Changeling deck with the following basic build.

white
4 crib swap
4 avian changeling
2 pull from eternity
4 rebuff the wicked

black
2 diabolic tutor
2 haakon, stromgald scourge
4 nameless inversion
4 skeletal changeling

red
2 lightning axe[/c]

artifact
3 door of destinies
4 howling mine
3 locket of yesterdays

lands
8 swamps
8 plains
2 vivid meadow
2 vivid marsh

Believe it or not this deck is much more effective than it looks. lots of testing lead me to remove many of the discard a cards and rely on the seemingly random Lightning axe and Howling Mine to get Haakon into the graveyard. other cards like door of destinies and liliana vess play a vital role as powerful cards if they stay out but also work wonderfully as lightning rods for the opponents removal spells leaving less obvious synergy cards in play.

the deck simply abuses cheep changeling and uses haakon to recycle them endlessly.
It takes a few turns to spin up but has enough removal and chump blockers in the early game to save itself. then you drop haakon into the grave yard via lightning axe or letting your hand over flow to 8 cards and discarding at the end of the turn.

rebuff the wicked runs general protection over important cards (its nice when you generally only have to worry about remove from game spells as everything important in the graveyard comes back)
Pull from eternity saves haakon or the occasional changeling from removed from game happy cards like crib swap, oblivion ring or expatriate.

the deck if very effective against anything but the fastest weenie or burn decks and does well against control and anything with bigger slower creatures.

ooh! I have a fairly effective changeling deck!

Effective enough, in fact, that I seldom bring it out because if the other players see me pulling it out, they start looking for their incredibly nasty overpowered decks to match it...

spells
2 Crib Swap
2 Nameless Inversion
1 Shields of Velis Vel
1 Cleansing Meditation
4 Dimir Machinations
1 Oblivion Ring
2 Wayfarer's Bauble

creatures
2 Undead Warchief
2 Daru Warchief
2 Edgewalker
1 Haakon, Stromgald Scourge
1 Gempalm Polluter
1 Shepherd of Rot
1 Dimir House Guard
2 Undead Gladiator
2 Changeling Sentinel
3 Avian Changeling
2 Changeling Hero
2 Ghostly Changeling
2 Cairn Wanderer
1 Moonglove Changeling
1 Skeletal Changeling

land
4 Windbrisk Heights
4 Orzhov Basilica
1 Forbidding Watchtower
6 Plains
8 Swamp

Anyway, it's one of those "How will I win this game?" kind of decks. Sometimes I get a bunch of warchiefs in my opening hand, so I just beat face with really big, cheap creatures (undead, daru, and edgewalker mean 5/5 fliers for free). Or I can get my haakon combo out, and make sure nobody ever keeps a creature in play. And once, I was playing against an 'infinite creature token generation' deck, and I had Shields of Velis Vel and the Gempalm Polluter in hand. Since this is casual, I think that having the slim possibility of a play like that is worth tossing those two cards in.

This is actually my first deck that I built from the ground up. It seems to work just fine, so I have been a tad reluctant to modify it.

FunkyDragon wrote:

I don't have the numbers with me, but I helped a friend build a changeling deck that uses Spirit Mirror with Ameoboid Changeling, Shields of Velis Vale, and Imagecrafter for a cheap wrath that doesn't touch your own critters. Then you play Peer Pressure (naming their creature type, given that your creatures are also that type), and you've got their best creature(s). It's a fun rogue deck. Certainly not tournament worthy, but seriously fun.

Ooh, I've been putting together a deck in this vein ever since I got a playset of Spirit Mirrors. I didn't think of Peer Pressure, though. Really, the only issue I've run into was that of you don't get any Reflections from your Changelings... Crib Swap works incredibly well in a situation when you can immediately destroy the baby that it produces.

I have a Thallid deck that takes great use of the ravnica card doubling season and all the new thallids that came out in the time spiral block. Amassing a large army of tokens and using Deathspore Thallid to crush opponent creatures. Can also make an army of massive creatures with Thelon of Havenwood. This deck is possibly my nastiest multiplayer deck as it controls threats so easily, its only problem is mass removal and since my comunity doesnt pack wraths im pretty safe, except for pestilence, but the i just hope i have a Thelon of Havenwood and a Thallid Germinator to keep my Thelon alive.