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Disciple/Pharisee
53 Cards
Doms 9

Guardian of Your Souls
Son of God
New Jerusalem
Angel of the Lord
Grapes of Wrath
Destruction of Nehushtan
Christian Martyr
Falling Away
Mayhem

Lost Souls 8

First Round Protect
Female Only
N.T. Only
Wanderer
Revealer
Shuffler
Two Liner
Hopper

Sites 3

CP
Golgotha
Nazzy

Forts 3

Fishing Boat
Herod's Temple
High Priest's Palace

Arst/Covs 6

Four-Drachma Coin
Unholy Writ
The New Covenant
Chariot of Fire
Crown of Thorns
Blue Tassels

Heroes 10

Peter
Simon the Zealot
John
Phillip
Bartholomew
Matthew
Thomas
James, Son of Alphaeus
Thaddeus
Claudia

Good Enhancements 5

Pentecost
My Lord and MY God
Reach of Desperation
Authority of Christ
Abe's Descendant

Evil Characters 5

The Entrapping Pharisees
Pharisee
Proud Pharisee
Scribe
Sabbath Breaker

Evil Enhancements 4

Just a Hireling
Balaam's Disobedience
Pretension
Casting Lots

   Well, no surprise here! Disciples did it again. I previously won a district in TN with this deck. Most of my harder competion wasnt around for this event due to T2 multi going on at same time except for the likes of Mark Underwood (aka Prof Underwood) whom i faced Round 2 with dreaded fear. Luckily, the deck drew perfectly with a turn one
Matt+ 2 other disciples down and Mayhem for 4 on turn 1! Can we say NPE? Anyway, I love watching this deck autopilot itself to victory.

PS- Dont Forget to add those Nazzy's to shutdown Philly Outpost at NATS!

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I love watching this deck autopilot itself to victory.

What a strange phrase.

Clearly no one at the tournament likes Herods. Or Philistines. Or defense in general.

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This offense doesn't have enough fire power. You can play AoCP twice, and maybe get a ML&MG home, but then what? Thad isn't big enough in T1.

I'm wondering if he uses blue Bart?

Guys, if you think this deck is weak go fire up RTS and play him. He will most oftenly beat you soundly.

can't spell oftenly....

can't spell oftenly....

It's ok, there were more issues with the post than just that

I'm not an english major, but I probably would have structured it like this:

"Guys, if you think Cliff's deck is weak, go play him on RTS. He will beat you soundly most of the time"

The problem with your phrasing is that oftenly, besides not even being a word, would be an adverb, and it doesn't really have anything to modify with how you used it.

I beat a deck like this that also included red at IA state. I still had plenty of defense by the end. I know Clift is good, but I just don't see how this deck could get through a real defense, unless it drew poorly. Although, nobody plays real defenses, and it's really fast, and it's in good hands, so I'm not too surprised it won. I don't see it placing at nats though.

Wow,I cant believe that this deck won.  there are so few enhancements here.  IF matthew dies/gets removed, then this deck gets hurt.  An early gabe really hurts this deck.  A stiff ANY defense really hurts this deck...Now I wish I had come to this tournament.....

I have a deck that would potentially hold this deck to zero LS's (gotta love Altar of Ahaz).  Man, I really wish I had come now....

It's a speed deck with a couple auto-blocks...those have been doing well for years. Definitely think an Uzzah would be worth the extra slot though.

Granted, my game was kinda over in the first turn with his Matthew + 2 buddies taking the first turn and getting a walk-in 1st LS, putting down 9 of his 11 cards in hand, and playing Mayhem after my draw.  By that point he already had out Nazzy (to shut down Philly Outpost), Golgotha (to shut down both speed TGT and defense heavy Zeb/Watchful Servant decks), and CP (to protect both those sites).  He also drew into a CM just when he needed it to get a block, and some other stuff, so that game was just meant to be.

However, you guys are knocking this deck as simply speed, when it's really not.  In his last game of the tourney, he played a really long game with Josh, and his defense was able to hold up long enough to basically deck him out (despite a decently strong angel offense).  I really can't think of a deck that I could've played that would've had much of a chance against him in our particular game, and I suspect that he'll do better with this deck (assuming he even plays it at Nats) than you guys think he will.

I do like the sound of Uzzah.

I also feel that the offence should have an extra battle winner maybe. Abes Kid is amazing and no I didnt have another blue hero besides Claudia b/c I think the purple Bart is better. (In type 1 that is. )

Something else on defense like Tenants Kill the Son also interest me.

I would like to see something in the deck to stop my opponents Herods Temple because of all my discards.

I never use Entrappings ability and I feel it clashes with Blue Tassels but I need the pharisee count for Proud. I have never used Hard Hearted yet.

there are so few enhancements here.

Scribe and Abes Kid go along way here.

The funniest play of the game was my opponent trying to Grapes my last EC and reattack so I Herods Templed and played Just a Hireling just to kill myself and shuffle the LS.

Congrats on your win RTSmaniac.

I think a lot of you guys are underrating disciples. It usually only takes 2 or 3 battle winners to win the game.

p.s. what does NPE mean?