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Just got back from NC Regionals last night! Want to say thanks again to the great host (Pat) and all the people who made it possible, great times all-around!

This was the deck I used (hurriedly put together minutes before the category started thanks to John and Jordan lending me 99% of the cards) for all five games of the category. It was 3-0 to start, then lost the last 2 games mostly due to lack of heroes (somehow ). Outside of possibly <10 games in between, I haven't played T1-2p since Nats 2014.

Cards: 57
LS: 8
Dull (CoW)
Lawless (CoW)
FBTN <Best non-broken LS in the game
Awake
Revealer
Exchanger
3-liner <Ban this card! Ban it like T1 multi! 
CBP

Dom: 8
SoG
SC (CoW)
AotL
Grapes
DoN
Mayhem
CM
FA (w)

Arts/Covs/Curses: 4
Magic Charms
Holy Grail
Signet Ring
RBD

Forts: 2
Wall o’ Protection
Throne o’ David

Heroes: 12
AutO
Samuel (tin)
CotH (wa)
Abigail
King Saul (CoW)
Abram’s Army
Joshua (CoW)
Ishmaiah
Joab (CoW)
David, the Shepherd (CoW)
Asahel
Ahimilech, the Hittite

GE: 7
United Kingdom
Counsel o’ Abigail
Faith o’ Barak (CoW)
ASP
Battle Cry
Bravery o’ David
Foreign Sword

EC: 9
Foreign Wives
Silly Women (PC)
The Serpent (p)
Damsel
Astrologers
Simon the Magician
Egyptian Rebel
Judas Iscariot
Sapphira

EE: 7
Scattered
Invoking Terror
Death o’ Unrighteous
Dream
Nebby’s Pride
Dissension in Antioch
Hypocrisy (EC)

Some notes:
There were several offenses like this one, though with key differences. I use more red for a personal affinity.

In five games, having SoG that was not an I or J SoG didn't matter at all, because of FBTN LS.

I think I used DoU in only one or two of the five games.

Ring + RBD were great, if I could draw them before it was too late. I think I Grailed only one or two EC in five games (my own Silly Women once, to generate a Soul). Magic Charms never once captured Heroes.

Hypocrisy + Mayhem was pulled off only once, and never against me.

Spread out in five games, I played every EE at least once. I played a total of 1 or 2 GE in battle, in all five games. ASP was played nearly every game to get Counsel o' Abigail, but that was never played. Foreign Sword was used to great effect pre-battle, and BoD was attempted once. Otherwise, Battle Cry, United Kingdom, CoA, and Faith o' Barak were all never used in any game (as far as I can recall). That's crazy to me .

Overall, can be very fun if it comes up decently. There is room for improvement, I think (maybe cutting back down to 50-51, among individual card choices). I'm not sure if I'll use a deck like this at Nats, but I expect there to be several like it, so here is a pitiable example, for your dissecting pleasure.

With 4 orange evil characters and a 3 liner I'm surprised that you didn't run Suicidal Swine Stampede.

So am I

Considering how rarely I played DoU with even more characters to play it on, I don't know how useful SSS would have been.

With so much Abigail, Miraculous Hankies and Onisemus running around, things like DoU and SSS just aren't as useful as they once were.

Well, Coliseum stops all LS protection (like Abby) in battle, and you can only play kariusvega once in T1    Clay/Crimson is as strong as ever, but JD is still the only person I see playing it. 

What I'm surprised about is you have 6 PG ECs, DoU, and Liner LS...  Something seems to be missing...  I'm so Confusioned