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T1-2P 8th place- Colossae + Martyrs/Evil Banding

Record: 6-2 +8 diff

Cards: 50

Dominants: 7
Son of God
The Second Coming
Angel of the Lord
Grapes of Wrath
Falling Away (Wo)
Christian Martyr
Three Woes

Lost Souls: 7
Lost Soul (Lawless)
Lost Soul (Open Hand)
Lost Soul (Awake)
Lost Soul (Exchanger)
Lost Soul (Humble)
Lost Soul (Imitate)
Lost Soul (Dull)

Support: 7
I am Creator
Covenant of Prayer
You Will Remain
Babylon The Harlot
The Ends of the Earth (RoJ)
The Gates of Hell
Fire Foxes

Heroes: 11
Claudia
Epaphras
Peter (EC)
Philemon
Onesimus
The Watchful Leaders
The Woman with Child
Barnabas
Paul (Promo)
Justin Martyr
Polycarp

Good Enhancements: 6
Elymas Struck Blind
Eternal Inheritance
Mercy of James
Peter's Sermon
Faith of Samuel
Overcome!

Evil Characters: 8
Abaddon, the Destroyer (RoJ)
Messenger of Satan (EC)
Red Dragon (RoJ)
The Deceiver
The Judean Mediums
Deluders
The Egyptian Rebel
The Serpent (Promo)

Evil Enhancements: 4
Scattered
Christian Suing Another
Dream
Lurking

Reserve: 10
Foreign Wives
John, the Apocalyptist
Blood of the Lamb
Word of Their Testimony
Kings of the Earth
The Frog Demons (RoJ)
Seven Sons of Sceva
Uzzah
Emperor Vitellius
Gomer (TxP)

Offense: Band and draw to your heart's content.  Foreign Wives isn't an issue as you have two ways to rescue around her protection (Peter's Sermon, Eternal Interitance.  Watchful Leaders to Paul gives most defenses issues. 

Defense:  CBN/CBI banding is pretty decent with how many of the offenses are constructed this season. Defense utilizes reserve excellently.  One regret was not including Frog Demons in main deck.  Serpent also did plenty of work.

Tournament recap:
Round 1: Brian Jones 4-5
Highlight of game for me was myself and Brian doing the Polycarp/Eternal Inheritance trick on back to back turns.  Also negating Woman with Child with Abaddon turn one was pretty nice.     I believe he Christian Martyred a Serpented hero to play SoG/Second Coming at end after rescuing #3. Probably should have used gates on last turn of game but don't think it would of made a difference. Great game.

Round 2: Bill Voigt 5-3
Bill pulled off the Creation of the World combo which was cool to see.  Pretty much just card advantages him after that with Claudia/Philemon/Paul. 

Round 3: Daniel Blodgett 5-2
Really don't remember much from this game.  Believe I just card advantaged this games again.

Round 4: Martin Miller 5-4
Tight game.  Not much of Martin's defense showed up.  I was able to band to his defense multiple times to thin out the little he drew.  Was one turn away from Martin winning. 

Round 5: Jacob Arrowood 2-5
I got rolled.  Made the poor decision of drawing through Music Leader early.

Round 6: Kye Murphy 5-4
I misplayed a couple times this game.  One not adding Ends of the Earth to battle after a death of unrighteousness, and another using Gates of Hell off a Grapes of Wrath.  Thankfully still pulled it off.  Kye was one turn away. 

Round 7: Caleb Beers 5-1
Old school Disciples Pharisees.  Basically card advantaged him and Judean Mediums did work with the cbn banding. 

Round 8: Daniel Huisinga 5-4
Before the game we discussed how epic this game would be banding to each others defenses creating a pretty long game.  Well the opposite happened neither defense showed up and our offenses basically walked in most of the game.  Hitting him with a Serpent was also key.

Having Polycarp in play means that if your opponent plays an interrupt/negate after you use Eternal Inheritance, you can simply instead the interrupt so EI goes through (unless your opponent is holding both an "interrupt/play next" AND a "negate last good enhancement.")

And even better yet if you also include Eternal Covenant to get Polycarp back for next turn...

Love this list...the only thing I would consider changing is I am Creator for Eternal Covenant since you have 11 Heroes and 1 in Reserve (unless the I am Creator was an anti-Hypocrisy/Mayhem tech, then it makes more sense).

I really missed the 8 player top cut and you would've made cut based on placing.  Who knows what happens from there.

I don't know why we didn't stick with what was working and I would've love to see Koney have to survive a top cut.

That deck is built to smash weaker opponents 5-0 for differential and top cut isn't about that.

Congrats on a good tournament Mitch your still a supremely underrated player and your definetly a first rate person!