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Add Themes that seem to be oddly missing

There are two themes that I have been wanting add as tags for my decks ever since I started using this site, and I’m dissappointed everytime I check to see if they’ve been added.

One Theme would be “Tribal”. it’s generic in description, but tells you a lot about the deck even before looking at it. I mean, preferably, I’d love to see all the major tribals listed, such as Elves, Vampires, Dragons, Angels, etc. (except Eldrazi and Slivers, we can leave them out, lol… just kidding)… but I completely understand the difficulty of where to draw the line on where to stop listing creature types or what have you and making the theme list of tags way to long to scroll through (though, personally, I think it would be worth it even if it included every creature type, ever, since alphabetical lists are easy to scroll through).

But, at the very least, I think a single tag of “Tribal” would be easy enough, amiright? I mean, when anybody builds a Tribal deck, and there are soooo many of us that have or want to… the first thing we do is decide “I’m going to make a tribal deck based on [this] creature” and then figure out the colors and spells, and strategies later. Wouldn’t something that such a big part of building certain kinds of decks as the very foundation be a theme that should be listed and an option to describe their deck?

Another theme I’d love to see added would be … well… “Theme”, actually. Sometimes decks are just based on a theme that isn’t listed, and the “Theme” tag would point the observer to the fact that this deck has something ‘extra’ about it that isn’t listed in the other tags. Perhaps it’s cards will all women facing left, or by a specific artist (a Richard Kane Ferguson deck!) or it’s based on the keyword Deathtouch (btw, keyword abilites would be good for theme tags, too… I mean, we have a “Flying” theme tag, but why not Deathtouch or Vigilance?), or Scry or Surveil?

Again, gernerically, I think “Theme” would do most of the work for describing the deck, and I think a lot of people are looking for decks that are themed in a way that isn’t already listed … and this can help them find themes that are NOT in the theme list.

Just my two pennies. Thanks!

2 days ago