Ideas for clan league #4

Hi all it's time to start thinking about the format for our next league so feel free to reply to this post with any idea(s) you may have. Once we have a few ideas together i'll start a poll to decide which of those ideas we're going to use for our next league. Don't worry if your idea sounds a bit crazy, as long as it is implimentable it will go into the poll. The only rule is that your idea is pauper based.

I'd like to sugguest a 'Classic Tribal Pauper' league. Tribal means that 1/3 of your deck must be filled with creatures of the same creature type. (That's 20 cards in a 60 card deck)

sounds good to me

does shapeshifter count as the creature type? like can i use 16 elves en 4 shapeshifters ?

I like the Tribal Idea..

I don't have a problem with tribal.
I do have a real hankering to play some Rainbow Stairwell. Note, I've had a problem finding definitive rules, so we'd need to define what those rules are up front. My suggestion would be:
6 of each colour and 6 artifacts. No hybrid or dual colour cards allowed. Off-colour activated abilities are allowed. I think we'd have to ban the new coloured artifacts, so no sanctum gargoyles or capsules. Limit of 4 non-basic lands, and you must play 24 lands.

about the tribal thing how does that work with the sideboard
can you side out the tribals ?

jmason idea sounds.... exotic i will have to try that to understand the joy of it i think, i'll look you up for some rainbow stairwell games.

i just experimented with the tribal classic format on mtgo

-you can have no sideboard
-shapeshifters dont count

so that answers my questions

I think that shapeshifters are supposed to count toward your tribal total. It might just be a problem with the legality filter, have you tried starting a game with, say, 16 elves and 4 changelings?

I just tried entering this deck with 16 kithkin and 4 changelings, and it shows as legal:
4 Amrou Seekers
4 Amrou Scout
4 Avian Changeling
4 Goldmeadow Harrier
4 Burrenton Bombardier

4 Kjeldoran War Cry
4 Beckon Apparition
4 Cenn's Enlistment
4 Surge of Thoughtweft
4 Prismatic Strands
20 Plains

It may be counting Surge of Thoughtweft as a Kithkin as it is a tribal instant. I am not sure if it counts that you have 20 creatures of the same type or 20 cards of the same creature type.

yeah maybe i should have mentioned - in tribal changling creatures do count towards the creature type you choose. Also, like mooncalf says, you can't have a sideboard in tribal. So from what i seee so far we have 2 ideas for the next league. Rainbow stairwell and tribal classic. Any more ideas before i put the poll up?