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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Deck Building & Design => Complete Decks => Topic started by: Josh on June 10, 2013, 12:39:25 PM
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Cards in deck: 50
Lost Souls: 8
Lost Soul (can't be prevented)
Lost Soul (deck discard)
Lost Soul (FBTN)
Lost Soul (Female Only)
Lost Soul (hopper)
Lost Soul (N.T. only)
Lost Soul (revealer)
Lost Soul (Wanderer)
Lamb Dominants: 4
Angel of the Lord
Grapes of Wrath
New Jerusalem
Son of God
Grim Reaper Dominants: 3
Christian Martyr
Destruction of Nehushtan
Mayhem
Green Sites: 1
Nazareth
Artifacts: 3
Darius' Decree
Magic Charms
Urim and Thummim
White Covenant Cards: 1
Covenant With Death (Brown/Pale Green)
Multi-Color Heroes: 3
Aaron (Green/Teal)
Ezekiel (Green/Teal)
Samuel (Gold/Green)
Silver Heroes: 1
The Angel Under the Oak
Gold Heroes: 4
Eli the Priest
Gideon
Jair
Moses
Green Heroes: 3
Armorbearer
Benaiah
Joanna
Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 3
Drawn Sword (Green/Crimson)
Eli's Sound Advice (Teal/Gold)
Forest Fire (Green/Crimson)
Gold Hero Enhancements: 3
Deborah's Directive
Samuel's Edict
Sword against Sword
Green Hero Enhancements: 1
Provisions
Multi-Color Evil Characters: 4
The Amalekites' Slave
Damsel With Spirit of Divination
Astrologers
Chaldeans
Crimson Evil Characters: 3
King Belshazzar
Nebuchadnezzar
Nergalsharezer
Crimson Evil Enhancements: 4
Belshazzar's Banquet
Desecrate the Temple
Great Image
Swift Horses
Pale Green Evil Enhancements: 1
Divination
I made the deck at the tournament. I'll post a game review in the Tournament section shortly. Since this will probably be the only tournament I attend this season, and since the addition of Kidron Valley would impact whether I include CWD, I see no reason to keep this deck a secret. Perhaps with some fine-tuning it can compete with The Deck and other top decks.
The deck was designed to make the Ezekiel/Babylonian synergy work with the speed and power of a small Judges offense. Every good enhancement that would be played in battle could easily be CBN or CBP. I've always wanted to make a deck that used the CBP Zeke enhancements and Benaiah. AUTO - Sam - Armorbearer - Moses/Benaiah (with Moses/Benaiah kicked out of battle) is even better - D2, 10/10 with two green FBTN heroes in battle instead of one. With Judges, you can include some anti-meta, which is what I wanted - I planned on having CWD/DD active with Naz in territory. CWD won me one game and maybe a second. And U&T was absolutely awesome as well - after using it, I could flip up CWD if I didn't want to negate enhancements, or I could flip up DD and attack with a FBTN option. I included the Am Slave - Nebby - Desecrate the Temple chain to try and discard SoG before I put Naz in territory. DtT was one of the MVPs of 3 of my games for sure.
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no david?
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no david?
Nope. No Wheel either. I wanted as few cards as possible to be hindered by Nazareth. And I hate squeezing in David and/or Saul just to get a possible D2 with Sam, especially since I have been seeing more Nazareths running around in T1 decks. Sam was crucial to the deck because he has access to both my Gold and my Green battlewinners, he makes the two-hero 10/10 FBTN chain with Armorbearer, and he negates the play off of horses.
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How well did Nebby work out for you? Did you consider more teal with Urim and Thummim?
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How well did Nebby work out for you? Did you consider more teal with Urim and Thummim?
Nebby was great. As soon as his usefulness was used up, or if I thought Nazareth would hurt my opponent (or I wanted to protect my hand from Mayhem), I'd drop Naz. I actually never pulled DtT from deck with him; every time I played it, it was already in hand. His most useful play was pulling Chaldeans from deck to negate/discard Bronze Laver, clearing the way for DtT later in the battle.
I didn't consider more Teal because my offense was complete as it was. The set-asides are too risky in my opinion (DD, RBD, CWD, etc), and my deck was fast enough without them. Two high priests (that naturally fit into the Judges/Ezekiel offense) and U&T were enough.
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Only Aaron can use UT so that seems kind of wasteful
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Eli the Priest can also use UT - I realize he's not teal, but that's the second one.
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Eli the Priest can also use UT - I realize he's not teal, but that's the second one.
Fair enough. The way it was worded made me think he was using Ezekiel for that but good catch.