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Only 6 Lost Souls eh?
Joking aside, I think it's one artifact too heavy. Having 10 Heroes, I'm not sure Great White Throne is optimal. I'd probably remove that and add the Seized by Rioters that jmhartz recommended.
Then cut Ark of the Covenant
Fair enough--to me it seemed like with 10 Heroes, using both Great White Throne and Eternal Covenant was overkill. I haven't used Ark much, but it did seem to fit with your deck going somewhat slim on good battle winners (i.e. you can't afford to have too many negated).
I've been running Eternal Covenant in Reserve in case of emergency and even then I haven't ever really used it (and I use fewer Heroes than you). While I'd personally love to run Ark (purely for the anti-curse aspect), I would take that out as well. If the Great White Throne is there mostly to get around banding chains, you're probably better off running Wool Fleece (CoW), but I don't think either is needed either if you trim down unneeded Heroes and add more battlewinners. First Fruits basically means you're getting blocked by Foreign Wives, and I don't like that. I'd rather use Consider the Lilies to get Overcome!.If I was using black, I'd definitely add Demetrius and Seized by Rioters. It's too good to not use.
Quote from: Master Q on July 11, 2017, 04:17:40 PMI've been running Eternal Covenant in Reserve in case of emergency and even then I haven't ever really used it (and I use fewer Heroes than you). While I'd personally love to run Ark (purely for the anti-curse aspect), I would take that out as well. If the Great White Throne is there mostly to get around banding chains, you're probably better off running Wool Fleece (CoW), but I don't think either is needed either if you trim down unneeded Heroes and add more battlewinners. First Fruits basically means you're getting blocked by Foreign Wives, and I don't like that. I'd rather use Consider the Lilies to get Overcome!.If I was using black, I'd definitely add Demetrius and Seized by Rioters. It's too good to not use.The bolded makes me cringe. I like adding battlewinners, but no hero is ever unneeded in my opinion. Great white throne is a consistency booster more than a banding chain trimmer. First fruits is certainly a concession to a throne HEAVY meta game. The tournament had at least FIVE throne decks in a field of 22. I'm certainly seeing area specific philosophy in the cuts suggested. EC vs NC is almost certainly becoming consistency vs power. All of this being said, if I tweaked this deck, I would cut heavenly temple/ark and add more evil.
The Great White Throne is way more useful than I am Creator. Most of the time when you get I am creator you're going to have heroes. You have to get it early and have no evil in your discard pile for it to be better. On the other hand GWT is can be used early and later on. You could maybe justify it if you had eternal inheritance or relied on covenants somehow.
If you're already running Demetrius, Shrine is pretty nice to reset Woes and Patmos.
Quote from: Red Wing on July 23, 2017, 09:26:33 PMIf you're already running Demetrius, Shrine is pretty nice to reset Woes and Patmos.We were initially concerned about the potential for Shrine and Woes but during testing we actually found that typically the cost of losing it (and not knowing when it would come back) wasn't worth the potential reward of being able to re-use it in a future battle. Now in a straight Greek defense, that cost is mitigated somewhat since you aren't slowing your deck down, but it's still such a powerful card to take off your side of the table.
