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Objective: Let your opponent go first. You draw, find Auto/Gideon go in with Auto/Gideon grab Faith of Gideon make a side battle and play Displeased Philistines turn 1. Then play Worldly Wisdom to go conveniently grab Mayhem..

The result? Your opponent's first drawing turn they have 0 cards. And probably little to no cards to rescue or block with..

Jar comes in handy.. Lawless on opponent.. New Ends of the Earth will fit great in here along with Three Woes for their lack of souls.

After that you can basically walk with whoever you want for about 3-5 rescues, and auto block with Goliath or Antiochus before they get back into their groove of being able to play the game.

My record was 5-1.

Game 1 Turn 1 combo, 7-2
Game 2 Turn 1 combo, 7-1
Game 3 Couldn't combo, but didn't matter 7-1
Game 4 Couldn't combo and he only drew female only lost souls (may need Cloud Moses for this- you got Shrine) 7-6
Game 5 Hit the combo mid game but burned through too much of my deck trying to draw cards. Kind of my own fault I lost this one. 5-7
Game 6 Did combo but got absurdly lucky because he couldn't draw Son of God/TSC/Scattered after I walked with Simeon/Joshua/Captain for like 3 consecutive turns. He had 10 cards left in his deck after 3 jars but couldn't get Son of God/TSC 7-5


I got extremely greedy and wound up playing it the night before 2p in multi and placed 3rd, comboing every single game and ruining Jayden's game(he had about 2 cards the whole game in his hand) and the next day he came back for a well deserved victory (Game 5-only loss)

Overall this deck is absurd. The defense is super flimsy and built for the combo. The offense is freaking amazing in the Cloud meta. Not so sure it will hold up against RoJ

You should be able to copy this list, save it into a txt file, and load it into lackey!

Ohhh that's right.. That was a tough decision. I was holding Mayhem/Faith of Samson/Faith of Gideon at one point when you were Displeased but I felt like I needed Faith of Samson and sure enough it got me the rescue against your huge Assyrian band

That was my mistake against Jayden.. I pitched it drawing like a race horse then he took out Cloud of Witnesses

Does the new Martyrs that protect your hand from opponent's evil cards stop this? Not being able to play Mayhem against someone is huge, and both Faithful Witnesses as well as the Four Living Creatures are seeing heavy play, more so FW and they are easy to get out. My strategy was running 2xFW, 2x Angel of the Winds, 2x Angel from the Sun, and possible Love Righteousness to ensure I got out Faithful Witness first turn against you, since you like to make your opponent go first if possible. That way I have my Mayhem protect out on the board and your defense can onnly do so much. Although Water Jar's, Seized by Rioter's and Displeased Philistine's can do some serious damage and stalling.

Thanks Iron! And here I was thinking I have been testing the new set and paying attention.