> Why to play "5 color - Ally Tribal"?

The budget and the colors

• You can build a 5 color ally deck in a very thin budget, and then upgrade it with little to no effort.
• Having access to all 5 colors in a tribal deck, allows you use any staple in the format.
• You don’t need an expensive mana cost to play this deck. Allies tends to have only one mana of devotion to their colors allowing you to play this deck with just basics lands if you can’t afford a better mana base.
• This is the final version I use, but in this explanation I cover all the budget options

The tribe and their synergy

• Allies are a very well-rounded tribe which make them very versatile. This allow the deck to be tailored to fit the user preferences.
• Allies have a lot of synergy with one another. Each of them care about the rest of the creatures that shared the ally type.
• They has a lot of specific cards that can work together with virtually any tribal support.
• Most of them has ETB (Enter the Battlefield Triggers) that can work very well with blink effects with a very low budget

> My personal picks

> Lands

Selecting the right lands depends on the colors you want to focus. My deck is centered in Naya colors (Red, white, green), and its land base tends to go for green for ramp.
Disclaimer: If you like to go with the "Perfect mana base" of [10 fetch + 10 shocks + 10 multicolored + 8 utility lands], that ok, but that is not my personal pick for this deck because I want it to be Foil and that foiled mana base is out of my budget.

5 Colors lands
All this lands gives you the five colors you need to play. With just one of them in you can play more than the 80% of the deck without having mana issues. With two, you fixed all your mana.

• Command Tower, Unclaimed Territory, Ancient Ziggurat, City of Brass - All of them gives all 5 colors.
• Ally Encampment - This is especially effective to bounce General Tazri or save Ally from removal
• Path of Ancestry - The scry is really powerful, even more when used with Realmwalker
• Reflecting Pool & Exotic Orchard - Usually will give you 5 colors with no effort.
• Forbidden Orchard - the token is really helpful when you need to commit a Blasphemous Act
• Aether Hub, do not underestimate this card. In a deck with little devotion but huge variety of color, you just need one mana of the color you need, and even if it is only one use, this card will fix your mana always.

Bond lands
The 10 of them are efficient and simple. I just play 5 of them because I like variety

• Sea of Clouds, Morphic Pool, Luxury Suite, Spire Garden, Bountiful Promenade

Basics
I play 2 basics of each type to ramp with Myriad Landscape and to prevent blood moon and magus of the moon effects.

• Plains and Forest are perfect to be tutored with Krosan Verge & Windswept Heath
• Swamp, Mountain and Island are just necessary
• Why I Don't use snow lands? The reason is because I don't like the full art version of them because Zendikar full art lands are more thematic.

Fetch

• Windswept Heath and Krosan Verge for searching white and green. The best option is always find the tow shocklands (Godless Shrine | Stomping Ground)
• Myriad Landscape for ramp
• Fabled Passage and Prismatic Vista for basics

Utility

• Mutavault - This card is perfect to use when you use Sea Gate Loremaster, Murasa Pyromancer or Tuktuk Scrapper effects.
• Reliquary Tower - Synergies with Sea Gate Loremaster
• Rishadan Port - This is here to tilt the player that's REALLY needs that mana in his turn when you don’t.
• Isolated Watchtower - This is here to ramp when you have a Realmwalker and a player has ramped more than you.
  (*) Is a player has 2 lands more than you, use its ability BEFORE playing the land of that turn.

Shocks

• Godless Shrine and Stomping Ground are tutoreable with Windswept Heath, Krosan Verge and Farseek.

> Ramp

The recommended hand to start playing is the one with at least 2 lands of different colors and a at least one ramp card we can play in before turn 3. You prefer green mana to play ramp spells early and you thrive for at least 1 white mana before turn 5. The other cards in the deck are not so important in the early game. If you can ramp and has white mana, you can play General Tazri as tutor what you need before anyone has the chance to respond.

My pick

• Sol Ring & Arcane Signet. - Who want rocks when you have green? We do, this are staples of the format, use them.
• Farseek - Find the shocklands first.
• Kodama's Reach & Cultivate - Usually, we have green, we search a 2 lands, one to battlefield (plains) one to hand (mountain).
• Growing Rites of Itlimoc // Itlimoc, Cradle of the Sun - This is amazing if played well. In the early game, you can replace it with a creature. In the late game, with 4 creatures, its gives us a ton of green mana.
• Herald's Horn & Urza's Incubator
  Our allies have an average of CMC of 3 and a devotion of 1 single mana. These 2 artifacts let you play creatures very easy. Both of them combine very well with "Munda, Ambush Leader & Realmwalker team tactic"
• Smothering Tithe - A staple, no one wants to pay the mana, we will have a lot of treasures.

Other solid options

• fellwar stone
• coalition relic - A lot of flavor
• chromatic lantern

> Creatures

This is a creatures-centered deck so our main strategy is to fill the board with creatures as fast as we can and protect them during the course of the match. In this section I divided the creatures by colors, in this deck each of them has a specific function.

Quantity
This is the most difficult to balance. I tend to run between 31 to 33 creatures, all of them tutoreable allies. This is a low value for a "Creature heavy deck" but since Tazri is always refilling our hands with creatures, I preferred to keep that numbers. Bellow 30 you won't have enough allies in the board in time.

A five colors army
I choose 3 principal colors for the deck and splash the others 2 of them.

• White: The vast majority of the allies is white. This should be your first choice.
• Red: The more aggressive allies are red. This is your pick if you plan to go agro.
• Green: The allies in green tend to focus on getting bigger or ramp. This is a solid option to go as second or third color.
• Blue: You have some "must have here" for draw, fly and clone effects but they are overall weak compared to other colors.
• Black: A lackluster choice to go, just pick the ones that you really like.

A note for changeling

• Any creature with the "Changeling" ability is technically an ally so we can tutor it and has it interact with others. Do not underestimate the changelings. Taurean Mauler and Realmwalker are two of the best cards in the deck.

White, the color of Peace

• Kor Bladewhirl - For first strike (Or his cousin Highland Berserker)
• Ondu Cleric, Lantern Scout, Talus Paladin - "The lifelink trio". When playing against agro decks, Ondu cleric lets you absorb damage without attacking and the others two gives your attacking creatures lifelink to trade damage without problem
• Kazandu Blademaster - "The Voltron Ally", is you play him early, it will be huge in late. If you play in late, is just ok.
• Makindi Patrol - Vigilance is a huge buff in this deck. Combine it with "Resolute Blademaster" and/or "Lantern Scout/Talus Paladin" to maximize it effect.
• Hero of Goma Fada - For protection. It can save you from board wipes, generally your own. Is a good plan to play Hero of Goma Fada (or any ally if he is already in play), trigger resolves making your army indestructible and then you can clean the table (and attack). Blasphemous Act will cost just 1 mana most of the time, soy is a good idea to tutor the hero with General Tazri in turn 5 and clean the table in turn 6 or 7.
• Unified front: Although no technically a creature, this card generate 1 to 4 four Ally token. We will cast it using 4 colors in the every game. Even better if we have "Kazuul Warlord" or "Door of destinies" in play

Red, the color of blood

• Highland Berserker - For first strike (Or his cousin Kor Bladewhirl)
• Firemantle Mage - For menace. This is an excellent finisher when a player has less creatures than us.
  (*) Flavor note: Do you need to have menace? Set all your army in fire, it can't never go wrong"
• Taurean Mauler - (Taurean go BRRRR!"). This creature is huge in EDH. Gaining 1 to 3 "+1/+1 counters" per turn make it very big for only 3 manas.
• Chasm Guide - For Haste. This creature makes your life easy if you have it in hand, but is not a good creature to tutor unleast you play to go all in.
• **Tuktuk Scrapper - For artifact hate. This card is the first you want to tutor when playing aganist artifact-heavy decks like "Breya etherium shaper" or similar decks. It destyo artifacts with violence and punish their contoller with a lot of damage if we can keep the board full.
• Ondu Champion - For trample. This is a finisher when the army is big enougth
• Kazuul Warlord - For a HUGE Permanent buff to all the army. Or creatures are very little, giving them a +1/+1 is like to duplicate their power. This can be abused with cards like unified front.
• Murasa Pyromancer - It is like a lightning bolt each time an ally enters the battlefield. (Big brother Tajuru Archer)

Green is the color of growth

• Masked Vandal - Enchantment hate
• Beastcaller Savant & Harabaz Druid - For mana
• Tajuru Archer - Flying hate
• Realmwalker - The best "Ally". (See "Munda, Ambush Leader & Realmwalker team tactic")
• Turntimber Ranger - Lots of wolf & infinite combo with arcane adaptation (and similar)

Blue is the color of knowledge

• Jwari Shapeshifter - A clone for 2 manes, and tutoreable.
  (Best creatures to clone: Tuktuk Scrapper, Kazuul Warlord, Murasa Pyromancer, Harabaz Druid, Turntimber Ranger, Sea Gate Loremaster, Bala Ged Thief, Hagra Diabolist)
  1 Sea Gate Loremaster - A lot of cards in hand.
  1 Seascape Aerialist - For flying (Is a finisher, not a defense)
  1 Drana, Liberator of Malakir - Note: She have first strike, so his ability triggers after his damage and before the damage of the non-first strike creatures is done.
  1 Bala Ged Thief
  1 Hagra Diabolist

Multicolored

• Unified Front
• Resolute Blademaster - For double strike. Is good in the mid and late game. This is a finisher when you have a big army.
• Munda, Ambush Leader - "The recruiter", haste is good but the golden part is the ability to re-organize your top cards. Be aware that if you always put allies on top, you won’t have any chance of drawing lands nor protections which are the a really important part of the deck progression and strategy.
  1 Moritte of the Frost

> Protection and recursion

All of our protection spells has more than one utility. The first one is obviously to protect or army. The other is the plus.

• Ephemerae - Use it on General tazri as interpt to last turn before you to tutor a second time that turn, and then a third time in your turn.
• Heroic Intervention - Boros Charm are the least interesting ones... that is preety good.
• Golgari Charm - Use it to clean tokens or destroy enchantments
• Eerie Interlude - Blink effect
• Ready // Willing - Good for refilling life and kill creatures.
• March from the Tomb - We get 2 or 3 creatures in general.

> Removal

The removal es simple

• Swords to Plowshares: Simple, cheap in mana and effective as hell.
• Crib Swap: Has changeling, so tutoreable.
• Anguished Unmaking: Permanent kiling. If you have low life Ondu Cleric.
• Aura Shards: This and TukTuk scrapper, can shut down every artifact centerd deck. Aura shards can destroy enchantments too.
• Decimate: Four permanents per four mana, use it every time you can. This is the card that I always find with Bring to ligth.

> Board wipes

• Blasphemous Act: Hero of goma fada and the this will cost you 6-8 manas normally.
• Citywide Bust: You will never be killing your creatures with this... except General Tazri, thing you want to do, to recast it.
• Dusk // Dawn: Clean the table, recover al your creatures after.
• Hallowed Burial (or Terminus): The fact that the creatures go to the library deals with indestructibles and persistent creatures you don't want to go to the graveyeard.

> Card and tutors

• Demonic Tutor
• Guardian Project
• Bring to Light

> Synergy artifacts and enchantments

• Shared Animosity
• Panharmonicon & Molten Echoes
• Door of Destinies

> Similar deck in different budgets. (In construction)

> The basics of a strong build

I recommend to follow this guide to have an idea of the basic building of the deck. The card listed here are just examples, and can be changed to the ones you prefer to play.

• Recommended starting point
  37 lands, 33 creatures, 30 spells

• Colors
  I recommend to choose 3 principal colors for the deck, and 2 to splash on it.

  • White: The vast majority of the allies is white. This should be your first or second choice
  • Green: The allies in green tend to focus on getting bigger when another enters the battlefield, and the best ramp spells are in green. This may be your second options.
  • Red: The more aggressive ones are here. You will choose this if you plan to go agro.
  • Blue: You have some "must have here" for draw, fly and clone effects but there an overall weak compared to other colors.
    -Black: A lackluster choice to go

• Lands
  Start the deck with 36 to 40 lands. I recommend start with 37 at first. At least 10 of them should be basics, and never less than 2 plains, swamps, forest and islands. This is a good way to evade blood moon or similar effects

• Ramp
  Add 8 to 10 mana accelerators (ramp), green is always better in this section.
  Farseek, Cultivate, Kodama's reach are excellent options.

• Target removal
  Add some target removal, 5-7 should be ok. This cards are needed to deal with problematic creatures, enchantments, artifacts, and planeswalkers.
  Anguished unmaking is a great example of a versatile removal.
  Decimate can deal with a lot of problems in one turn if the setting is done.

• Board wipes
  Add some board wipes, 3-5 should be ok. This will help you to reset the table when other players are dominating the field. Try to focus in the board wipes that breaks the parity, in general, allies have less than 4 toughness, so Citywide Bust is our better call here.

• Card advantage and tutoring
  Add cards that give you "card advantage". 3-5 should be ok.
  General Tazri is our reliable creature tutor. It can be used to find the ally we need in the moment we need it.
  Bring to light is a flexible tutoring tool that lets us find creatures, sorceries and instants if we can pay the colors.
  March from the Tomb is a huge recovery spell that let us return our death creatures for less than their actual cost.

• Creatures
  Add 30 to 38 of allies. I recommend to start with 33 or 34 and lower this number is you have enough card draw. The allies that you will put here should be trying to help the other sections.
  Beastcaller savant and harabaz druid can be count as ramp | Sea Gate loremaster can help with the card draw
  Use this spaces to full fill and reinforce the weaker part of the deck.

• Protections
  Add 3-7 protective spells. This is heavily dependent of the amount of creatures and play style you want. More creature orientated decks, require to have a better set of protection.
  Rootborn Defenses is a great example of a good protection spell.

• Shenanigans
  "Survive, adapt, overcome". Try to use cards that give you versatility.
  Golgari charm is a good example. It lets you deal with enchantments, or clean the board if there are a lot of small creatures, or even protect your creatures when the board wipe arrives.
  Eerie Interlude can be used to protect your legions, but in addition can be used to trigger all the ETB effects of your deck, including tutoring with Tazri.

> Level 1- 4 - Starter deck (Low budget)

• Colors
  I recommend to go for Naya (Green, White and Red) with a splash of blue and black
  Using this combination, you will have access to the majority of the good cards in a budget.
  White hast the biggest numbers of allies, and all the support for them has white. (Retreat to Emeria)
  Red favor the creature-based agro strategies and has the best heavy hitters. (Kazuul warlord)
  Green is just here because it so good at ramping in a budget that all the allies that’s gives you are just a plus (Harabaz druid)

• Lands
  Distribute as you see it fits you, pay attention to the following sections to know how to prioritize.
  The cheapest way is to play just basics.
  I strongly recommend to uses some of the Vivid lands (Vivid marsh for example) and/or the trilands from Tarkir and Alara sets (Sandsteppe Citadel | Crumbling necropolis).
  Try to balance the ratio of "Mana fixing" without playing always tapped.
  Aether Hub is an excellent card that can be added to help the problem of color fixing.

• Ramp
  The best way is also the cheapest in this case. FOCUS UN GREEN!
  Farseek, Cultivate, Kodama's reach, Circuitous Route, grow from the ashes are excellent options to start. Try to put 8-10 to ensure you can play General Tazri as soon as possible.

• Strategy (Counters, Keywords and Blink effect)
  +1/+1 Counters: Green/White allies tend to excel at getting counters putting on them while entering the battlefield (Greypelt hunter | hada freblade) so this is the easy strategy. It can be performed simply by adding "+1/+1 Counter support" like Hardened scales a bit of blink effect (cloudshift)
  Keywords: Red/White allies tend to give good keywords like "First strike, Lifelink, Double strike", the good part of this is that General Tazri can tutor the keyword that we need, have that in mind
  Blink and ETB: Generally, the white and blue cards excels in "Exile our own creatures and returning them to the battlefield" at instant speed triggering a lots of effects even outside of our turn. (cloudshift)

> Level 5-6 - Upgraded (Low to medium - budget)

Use the Low budget explanation and add the following

• Colors
  Use whatever combination you want. I still prefer naya but adding more blue for draw and black for removal.

• Lands and ramp
  Add the 5 colored lands, (Command Tower, Ally Encampment, Path of Ancestry, Unclaimed Territory).
  Add the utility lands. This is up to you. Y recommend no more than 5 colorless lands.
  Add Krosan Verge and Myriad Landscape as "Land-Ramp"
  Add sol ring and arcane signet replacing some of the ramp spells you have.

• CMC and Draw
  Try to keep the deck in a CMC of 3.5 or less. This will help you to play more impactful turns whit multiple triggers
  Less cost means more need to draw cards. Distant melody or of one Mind are goods additions.

> Level 7-8 - Focus (Medium budget)

Check my list and make the changes that you see it needs to adapt to your play group

> Level 9-10 CEDH (Expensive budget)

You will tend to go black for tutors, blue for counters and draw...
...Forget all I said before, add a lot of tutors, a wincon and you are done.

Here is an example:
1) "Food chain + squee the immortal" to have infinite mana.
2) Cast General Tazri... tutor Hagra sharpshooter and play it.
3) Use the Hagra sharpshooter to kill General Tazri
4) Recast General Tazri and kill her to start tutoring all the allies in the deck...
5) Chasm Guide gives them haste... but it is possible to kill then just with the ETB of Hagra Diabolist

> Turn progression (Example)

Turn progression is
Turn 1 (0-1 Mana)
Hada freeblade | Sol ring | hardened scales

Turn 2 (2-3 Mana)
Arcane Signet or Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale | Ally (CMC 2-3)

Turn 3 (3-4 Mana)
Chromatic Lantern | Herald's Horn | Urza's Incubator | Kodama's Reach | Ally (CMC 2-4)

Turn 4 (5-6 Mana)
Smothering Tithe | Gilded Lotus | Ally (CMC 2-5)

• Note 1: If you already have Dowsing Dagger // Lost Vale and at least one Ally, attach, attack and transform it. You should have at least one free-to-hit opponent at this point.
• Note 2: It is better to play all the ally cards in your hand, but If you don’t have good creatures to play, just cast General Tazri and tutor harabaz druid for extra mana. or Sea Gate Loremaster for card draw

Turn 5 (6-8 Mana)
With at least 3 or four allies, start keeping 1-3 mana open to protect allies from board wipes. Boros charm and Eerie Interlude are your best options.

• This is a good time to use a Decimate to get rid of some nasty permanents
• Golgari charm is better to keep in hand to protect allies, but destroy enchantments or clean some tokens if needed
• Do not be afraid of block with General Tazri just for the pleasure of killing her. Recasting it you will be able to search for the answer you need in the moment you need it.
• If your mana is fixed, you probably had tutored Sea Gate Loremaster for card draw, play to draw a lot of cards.

Turn 6+ (7-10 Mamas)
You have plenty of mana to cast 2 allies per turn, at least 3-4 creatures and some buff and protections and you will manage to draw more than one card at a turn, or at least summon General Tazri.
Now you are ready you can finish the game one opponent at a time.