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Cards in deck: 102
Lost Souls: 15

Lamb Dominants: 5
   Angel of the Lord
   Grapes of Wrath
   Guardian Of Your Souls
   New Jerusalem
   Son of God

Grim Reaper Dominants: 6
   Burial
   Christian Martyr
   Destruction of Nehushtan
   Falling Away
   Mayhem
   Vain Philosophy

Fortresses: 5
   High Priest's Palace
   High Priest's Palace
   Solomon's Temple
   The Throne of David
   The Throne of David

Green Sites: 2
   Nazareth
   Nazareth

Multicolor Sites: 2
  Dragon Raid
  Dragon Raid

Artifacts: 3
   The Bronze Laver
   The Bronze Laver
   Priestly Crown

White Covenant Cards: 2
   Captured Ark (Crimson)
   Captured Ark (Crimson)

Red Covenant Cards: 1
   I am Grace

Purple Covenant Cards: 1
   Covenant of Palestine

Red Heroes: 2
   Ahimelek the Hittite
   Ahimelek the Hittite

Gold Heroes: 2
   Israelite Archer
   Israelite Archer

Green Heroes: 2
   Isaiah
   Isaiah

Purple Heroes: 12
   Abigail
   Abigail
   King Amaziah
   King Amaziah
   King Asa
   King David
   King David
   King Hezekiah
   King Hiram
   King Jotham
   King Solomon
   King Solomon

Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 5
   Counsel of Abigail (Purple/Red)
   Counsel of Abigail (Purple/Red)
   Defenestrated! (Purple/Brown)
   Defenestrated! (Purple/Brown)
   Temple Dedication (Purple/Teal/White)

Purple Hero Enhancements: 8
   Unified Kingdom
   Unified Kingdom
   Unified Kingdom
   Unified Kingdom
   Valley of Salt
   Valley of Salt
   Valley of Salt
   Valley of Salt

Gray Evil Characters: 11
   Hard-Hearted Religious Leaders
   Hard-Hearted Religious Leaders
   Pharisees
   Pharisees
   Pharisees
   Pharisees
   Proud Pharisee
   Proud Pharisee
   Proud Pharisee
   Proud Pharisee
   The Entrapping Pharisees

Multi-Color Evil Characters: 3
  Foreign Wives
  Scribe
  Scribe

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 5
   Just a Hireling (black/gray)
   Just a Hireling (black/gray)
   Scattered (Brown/Crimson/Gray/Pale Green)
   Tenants Kill the Son (Gray/Black)
   Tenants Kill the Son (Gray/Black)

Gray Evil Enhancements: 10
   Balaam's Disobedience
   Balaam's Disobedience
   Balaam's Disobedience
   Balaam's Disobedience
   Pretension
   Pretension
   Pretension
   Pretension
   Self-Righteous Prayer
   Self-Righteous Prayer

Things I would change:
1)  Fit in a couple Darius Decree somehow
2)  Cut Self-Righteous Prayers for Sorrow of Mary or Idle Gossip

I played Royalty Phars rather than Di Phars because I lent my brother my Di offense for the tourny.  The deck was really fast due to Throne of David, and of course the Pharisees defense.  I was worried about being light on enhancements on offense but speed of the deck made that pretty much irrelevant as I always had more than enough battle-winners to play off throne.  I drew 7 off of Throne of David multiple times due to the prevalence of Foreign Wives.  The deck went 3-1 during the tournament.  I tested Defenestrated! in neutral slots since I am pretty unimpressed with O.T. battlewinners outside of the big 2 (which are Amazing) and Council of Abigail.  The reason for the lack of an additional hopper was due to being off count before tourny (got in a car accident on the way to the tourny so was late for tourny) so had to hurry to swap a card since I was already late.   

I lost to Jordan's Creeping Priests deck that took 1st.  The only access I got early was dragon raid.  Normally Perganum isn't an issue for Purple in regards to Dragon Raid, but he made a great playing putting the NT only ls in it cutting off my access.  I got Priestly Crown but couldn't get to Abigail to get around the Creepers.  Also he banded to my offense a ton. 

I think Canaanites with a early Tower + The Woman of Thebez + stones would give me issues.  I thought Babylonians with pan would give me issues.  But Arks and extra forts got around that when I played them.  I also think a deck with copies of Cov w/ Death + and Nazareth could give me a tough time as well hurting my defense a ton.  But no one has seemed to run it much since before last Nats.