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I had this idea to make 5 different tribal decks. One for each color. I only really have 5 decks at a time, and I'm kinda depowering a lot of them. What I have now is a combo-licious Daretti, a stax-y Titania, a ruthless Azusa, Ezuri elfball, and Lorthos sea monsters. (Bonus points if you can guess my favorite color) Ezuri and Lorthos are both tribal. I was thinking of dismantling the other three just because combos are only fun for so long before getting stale, plus tribal decks are usually quite fair. The only problem is landing on a tribe for each one. Some options I thought of.

Black:
Marrow-Gnawer Rats!
Ob Nixilis of the Black Oath Demons.
Mikaeus, the Unhallowed or Ghoulcaller Gisa Zombies.

White
Lin Sivvi, Defiant Hero Rebels
Angels can be done with a few different commanders. Akroma, Angel of Wrath, Linvala, Keeper of Silence, or Avacyn, Angel of Hope spring to mind.
I don't even know who would lead a knight and/or soldier deck.
Kemba, Kha Regent is the obvious choice for cats. Now that I think about it though, Brimaz, King of Oreskos is good too.

Red
I wanna stay away from goblins as I've done Krenko in the past, and he's fun, but I want a new experience.
Zirilan of the Claw is a good dragon commander.
I'm kinda drawing a blank as to other red tribes, so it'll probably be dragons unless I get another suggestion.

Please advise on what the community things the best, or most fun tribes are. Budget isn't a concern, but I want these to be semi-competitive. Any help would be appreciated.

As far as red goes, there's Lovisa Coldeyes with warrior/berserker/barbarian tribal. It's pretty fun, in my opinion though not as splashy as Zirilan.

I'm not sure who the best general would be off of the top of my head (Rakka Mar is what comes to mind), but elemental tribal may also be an option.

Hi there,

I like tribal decks, especially obscure ones, and have quite a bit of tribal EDH decks. I would suggest the following:

White
Darien, King of Kjeldor for soldier
Radiant, Archangel for angel
Nahiri, the Lithomancer for kor/equipment

Black
Chainer, Dementia Master for nightmare/horror

Red
Slobad, Goblin Tinkerer for construct
Ashling the Pilgrim for elemental

I hope this helps!

Blue: Spirits, Merfolk, You already have the sea monsters.
green: Spirits (Sekki, Seasons' guide) Treefolk, fungus, elementals, elves, beasts, squirrels, druids, saprolings.
White: Spirits, kor, you have rebels angels and soldiers.
Black: Thrall, Minions, you have zombies rats and demons
Red: giants, contructs, goblins (i know i know) Elementals, dragons,

i can even suggest multi colored tribes.

i really was thinking about a sekki fight deck. Together with the green phantoms from Odyssey block

I think I've definitely settled on Lovisa Coldeyes for red. For white, I'm probably leaning towards angels. For black, maybe zombies. Cause Ghoulcaller Gisa seemed fun.

I love Zombies for Black. its a ton of fun! Gisa would be great to try out.

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I think I've definitely settled on Lovisa Coldeyes for red. For white, I'm probably leaning towards angels. For black, maybe zombies. Cause Ghoulcaller Gisa seemed fun.

Yay! I like seeing Lovisa get some love. Let ISB or myself know if you would like any help, or have any questions.

I threw together a zombie list out of a combination of all the good zombies I could find plus some good stuff from my old Chainer list. I'll probably start working on a Lovisa list after I finish making this one. I'm sure your primer wouldn't be a bad place for ideas

Well i guess i have to drop the bomb on one of the cooler tribes in magic; SNAKES!

This is a 10 ticket deck that MTGRadio on twitch created. It's quite cool! Ofc it can be so much stronger if you
are willing to invest some money into it.

Seshiro the Anointed is the general.

It looks like they have Elfball for green.

*cough*shamansarecooleranyways*cough*

I did indeed make elfball for green. Also as a funny aside, someone in meta already has a snake deck. With the same general too.

I wish Mikaeus, the Unhallowed worked with Shadowborn Apostle. Sadly, don't think there is any way to do this in Monoblack...but other than that, the Cleric/Demon deck sounds awesome!

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I wish Mikaeus, the Unhallowed worked with Shadowborn Apostle. Sadly, don't think there is any way to do this in Monoblack...but other than that, the Cleric/Demon deck sounds awesome!

Shirei, Shizo's Caretaker would like a word with you....

my favorite tribes by color:

W: Angels

U: Merfolk

B: Gorgons (although zombies, vampires, and thrulls are awesome too)

R: DWARVES.

G: Treefolk

How about black or 5 colored for a horror tribal?

alot of strong(and not so strong) horrors out there.

I can't believe I forgot Shirei!

Also, YEAH DWARVES! Pile of Dwarves+Dwarven Bloodboiler+Dwarven Warriors or Dwarven Nomad before Bloodboiler pumps+Balthor the Stout as the commander = One shot commander attack!

Maybe it's just me, but one of my pet peeves is when people try to make a "tribal deck" around something with no tribal support, like angels or demons or uncle istvans. I mean, sure, there are pan-tribal cards like coat of arms, but really, what is the point? If you want to make tribal, pick an actual tribe.

That said:

white: rebels, soldiers are probably your best bet. That said there aren't any super soldier-tribally commanders, but I did make a Brimaz deck once that had a lot of soldier tribal in it. Anything token-y tends to make soldiers in white. Rebels have Lin ofc, but they also don't have much tribal pumping or anything (although you do have mirror entity on tap).

blue: azami for wizards is the obvious one. merfolk is an option, although there aren't any merfolk tribal commanders in mono blue. If you want to go super cool, though, go higure, the still wind for ninjas.

Black: zombies with Gisa. Possibly vampires with Anowon, although he's not so much "vampire tribal" so much as "don't ever play anything except vampires". Same for Hythonia, although there's no way there's enough good gorgons to make that deck feel tribal. If you want combo, Iname is pretty strong spirit tribal.

Red: my vote is for dragons with zirilan of the claw, although it's not really "tribal" per se, more like toolbox. Anyway if you're feeling less awesome, there's goblins with krenko, which can be really strong and fast. Or barbarians or whatever with Lovisa if you're a weirdo.

Green: elves with ezuri is where most people go, so I'm going to recommend seshiro the anointed snake tribal instead, because it's just so much cooler. I mean seriously, that is an absurd tribal bonus.

Personally I found that tribal decks do not need to be mono such as red/white solider (I use Iroas, God of Victory as my general for that deck).

Blue could really pull off wizards or if you want to dare to do something crazy make it a blue wizard artifact deck with Memnarch as your general. You could do a lot of wizards with a lot of artifacts. I've been toying with that idea for a bit - loading it up with artifact mana, copying or stealing cards, etc.

Green I think has two other good options in hydras and elementals. Both Omnath, Locus of Mana and Polukranos, World Eater make for fine generals.

White I agree with above - soldiers or angels are great.

Red has some options if you want to go with barbarians.

Black could work well with demons.