So we do have cards for the draft? Or is it you just found a way to get them and they're not here yet? Just trying to clarify. While it's not set in stone yet I think I'm going to end up going to Canada for Thanksgiving. My brother's girlfriend lives up there and we got invited apparently. Weird.
What does everyone think would be good picks for the next expansion of tribal races? We've already gone through soldiers, clerics, zombies, elves, goblins, birds, and beasts...there was an article on wizards.com recently that revealed that Wizards might be adding Humans as a creature type and going with a race/class model for civilized creatures, giving all of them both, which is pushing the question of whether to add humans. I'm not sure I like it, but it might be cool to have some black spells that kill humans in particular or something. As it stands, they're insolated from penalties and separated from potential benefits.
I'd like to see Barbarians make a comeback. We got a lot of them during the Odessey block, but it'd be a shame to see them disappear in a swarm of goblins. I'm having trouble of thinking of viable creature types for tribal for most of the other colors. Nantukos are insects, but the ease of getting insect counters (and lots, in a hurry) could cause problems if Insects get a 5-tap rare or something. Minions or Horrors could work for black, and white could get Knights. The more I think about it, however, I'm not sure that tribal will change much in the next Onslaught expansion. Any truly major shift in the creature types used would be a pain for the storyline folks, although things like Soldiers to Knights or Goblins to Barbarians wouldn't mess things up too bad. It's just hard to see clerics or zombies going away with the power of the Cabal behind them, or wizards disappearing when Ixidor is gaining strength.
As long as I get tribal kavu I'll be happy. Kavu are funny.