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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.

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.

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.

Eli the Priest can also use UT - I realize he's not teal, but that's the second one.