Karius Vega's T2 "Sinning Bountifully (The Singer Sowing Machine)"
3rd Place T2 Only 2016
100 Cards
14 Lost Souls:
2 Awake
2 Revealer
2 Thorns
2 Retribution
2 CBP
2 Pigs
2 Punisher
8 Neutral:
2 Gam's Speech
2 Darius Decree
2 House Hold Idols
2 Holy of Holies
39 Good (Corinth offense):
2 Chloe
1 Stephanas
1 Phoebe
1 Titus Justus
1 Peter
1 Achaicus
1 Apollos
1 Timothy
1 Fortunatus
1 Crispus
1 Barnabas
1 Tabitha
1 Aquila
1 Priscilla
4 Sowing Bountifully
3 Peter's Sermon
2 Mercy of James
2 Word of Christ
2 The Lord Rebuke You
1 Praise from Prison
1 Peace
1 Herod's Temple
1 Wall of Protection
1 Scroll of Isaiah
1 I am Grace
1 Son of God
1 New Jerusalem
1 Angel of the Lord
1 Grapes of Wrath
1 Guardian of Your Souls
39 Evil (demons):
2 Messenger of Satan
2 Spirit of Temptation
2 Wandering Spirit
2 Rebellious Spirit
2 Trembling Demon
1 Damsel
1 Foreign Wives
1 King of Tyrus
1 Evil Spawn
4 Sinning Hand
3 Persistent Pestering - after you dc half their hand, underdeck their battle winners
3 Two Possessed by Demons - after you underdeck their battle winners, set them aside for a long time
2 Fearfulness
1 Worshiping Demons
1 Madness
1 Captured Ark
3 Gates of Hell
1 Falling Away
1 Burial
1 Christian Martyr
1 Mayhem
1 Vain Philosophy
1 Destruction of Nehushtan
1 Shipwreck - almost always used this on wall
Sow the idea for this deck occurred to me after realizing most deck protection has hand protection as well. Justin plays hand annihilation, so why wouldn't people want to protect their hand?? Well, that makes Sinning Hand basically a cbn remove a hero from the game. So the option is, subject your heroes to removal, or have your deck defense destroyed before you ever draw it. It's a fast deck and can get into Sowing very quickly. You want to feather out your opponents last two turns with Sinning Hands and Persistent Pesterings, and feather out their next two turns with Sowing Bountifully- discarding their evil cards, generating souls, and looking at their coming turns of rescue options. That's how the deck works, it's a combo. You band to their guys with the demons and they pretty much won't have any blocking options left available to them if you haven't already cbn converted them regardless of protection. The offense and defense definitely work together, and it works pretty great!
Note worthy plays:
4 Sinning Hands played in 1 battle
Removed 4 Armor of God enhancements from the game against a protected hand with Sinning Hand (enh do follow the removed hero) after discarding their shield of faith with Rebellious Spirit
Got 2 people down to 0 hand
Was pretty much hitting 6+ evil cards (evil characters, doms, enh, forts, etc) and generating souls every time I used sowing once or twice per turn for
Discard my set aside Chloe with my own Decree to heal her with Peter then rescue with her
Got a d9 off of Messenger of Satan against a Paul
Got a d9 off of Damsel when she revealed Love
Fearfulness cbn for 7 with Foreign Wives
I had a ton of fun at the T2 only and was really amazed at the level of competition there! It was my first time attending and I am really going to have to give God and the body of Christ the glory for even placing!! I did not expect to place! 3rd place is a huge honor among the greatest players in Redemption!
Thank you to Gabe for his wisdom and great advice, Clift for his invaluable T2 experience, Tyler for being a great friend and helping me test this deck, Justin for the countless hours and games we play on lackey and him really pushing my experience to a whole different level and inviting me to attend the T2 only which was amazing! Jordan for being on lackey to play T2 with his experience(congrats on the win!!), Wild Bill for hosting the T2 Only!! Pat for being a great sport when he had no hand, Sam for never giving up!! Travis for being a great supplier! and Rob for making Redemption!
Be sure to check out www.landofredemption.com for a pod cast where we talk about our T2 Only experience!
