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this deck won fist place at districts of this tourney http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=24891.0

Cards in deck: 56
Lost Souls: 7
   Acts 11:18 Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   II Samuel 23:6
   Ezekiel 34:6
   Luke 19:10
   Three liner lost souls
   I Corinthians 1:27
   Jeremiah 7:18

Lamb Dominants: 5
   Angel of the Lord
   Guardian of Your souls
   Son of God
   New Jerusalem
   Harvest Time

Reaper Dominants: 3
   Burial
   Christian Martyr
   Falling Away

Artifacts: 1
   Three Nails

Curses: 2
   Given Over to Egypt
   Unknown Nation
 
Fortresses: 2
   Jerusalem Tower
   Wall of Protection

Multi-colored Sites: 1
   The Ends of the Earth

Silver Heroes: 8
   Angel at Shur
   Eli
   Arianna
   Captain of the Host
   Gabriel (Warriors)
   Kira
   Angel of Might
   Micheal (Angel Wars)

Silver Hero Enhancements: 7
   Gathering of Angels
   Help from Heaven
   Striking Herod
   Protection of Angels
   Michael's Sword
   Birth Foretold
   Shadow of Death

Sliver/Green Enhancements: 1
   Wickedness Removed

Multi-Colored Enhancements: 2
   Preaching the Truth
   Pillar of Fire

Gold Evil Characters:
   Emperor Claudius
   Queen Tahpenes
   The Amalekites' Slave
   King Shishak
   Panic Demon

Crimson Evil Characters: 1
   Leviathan

Gold Evil Enhancements:9
   Rizpah's Sackcloth
   Outburst of Anger
   Sorrow of Mary
   Temptation
   Egyptian Horses
   Lahmi's Spear
   Denial of Christ
   Mask of Fear
   Den of Robbers

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 2
   Lying Unto God
   Torment



I added a Chariot of Fire the next day and took out Eli

yeah congrats on winning with this deck stupid michael 

No "The Strong Angel"?  No "Destruction of Nehustan"?  I think I'd try to fit those in there at some point.

Congrats on winning the tourney!  That's always a great feeling

It says human NT...

i had removed a lot of cards on friday night because it was unrealible and was in the 70's with cards

With Rob and CG25 there.

I'm baffled as to how this won a tournament. It's an awful deck, so you must be a really good player.

That's a bit harsh.  I don't think it's that bad.  Sure there's been a lot of good suggestions of changes, but the basic deck is solid.  It's just not outstanding yet.

I'm baffled as to how this won a tournament. It's an awful deck, so you must be a really good player.

I'm going to have to agree. This deck must have won on a combination of the player being really good and the meta not expecting silver not named Captain or TSA. Congrats either way, I just don't see how it happened.

Quote from: Minister Polarius on February 15, 2011, 04:29:12 PM

I'm baffled as to how this won a tournament. It's an awful deck, so you must be a really good player.

I'm going to have to agree. This deck must have won on a combination of the player being really good and the meta not expecting silver not named Captain or TSA. Congrats either way, I just don't see how it happened.

This was along the lines of my first thoughts when I saw the deck.

In theory Silver is a very fun brigade right now. But to me it seems like the deck was constructed out of a box of whatever the player happened to have laying around, it hasn't been meticulusly constructed and tested making changes here and there until its the best it can be.

Case and Point - Preaching the Truth, when he doesn't have a single character that it can be used on.

Case and Point # 2 - Only 5 EC's, without any real chemistry between them in a 56 card deck.

Case and Point # 3 - No TSA, DoN, etc, etc.

All that said, I think the deck is good for what it is, and could be a very fun deck if the suggestions in the thread are taken (adding in TSA, etc)  but I don't expect to see it on top of the leaderboards come regionals and nationals if it remains in this form.

so heres the thing if you don't have a nice thing to say about this don't talk ever.  I am a magic player at heart and one that doesn't build decks people expect and that is what i will do in every tcg

Perhaps some people are just jealous that you won a district and they didn't. Let's just say everyone has space to learn, grow, and improve as well as their decks. No one has come to Christ-like perfection & completeness. Even myself, I have areas in my life as well my decks where I can improve. But that shouldn't give others the chance to tear down and bash others when we really ought to be uplifting and encouraging the accomplishment for those that achieved it in the first place.

You are all smarter than that. Did anyone even read the second sentence of my post? I'm sorry, but the deck as posted is just objectively bad, even to the point of having a card that does nothing.

If you read one more sentence (takes a few seconds, I know you have it in you), you'll see that my point in emphasizing how bad the deck is was to emphasize how good the player is. Anyone can build a better deck with a few months' experience under his belt, but being a good player is a much more difficult, much better situation.

Long story short, that was a compliment.

I didn't post it but I thought pretty much the same thing that Pol said.  I didn't post it because I assumed it would be taken the wrong way.  Stating that the deck has lots of room for improvement is no diss to the creator.  I think it's extremely impressive that a new (to Redemption) player has the skill to pilot that deck to a tournament win.  If this guy sticks with Redemption and fine tunes his deck building skillz to match his playing skillz he'll be placing at big tournaments.  Who knows, maybe even win Nationals.