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50 Cards

8 lost souls

Hopper
Revealer
Plain Lost Soul x6 (I'll explain later)

6 good dominants

Grapes of Wrath
Guardian of Your Souls
Angel of the Lord
Harvest Time
Son of God
New Jerusalem

3 evil dominants

Falling Away
Burial
Christian Martyr

1 fortress

The Garden Tomb

2 artifacts

Darius' Decree
Holy Grail

2 Curses

Rain Becomes Dust
Captured Ark

13 heroes

Susanna
Mary the mother of James
Joanna (Di)
Captain of the Host (Warr)
John (starter)
The Woman at the Well
Faithful Servant Promo
Lydia
Jacob (FooF)
Salome
Simeon (Warr)
The Strong Angel (Warr)
Ethiopian Treasurer

13 good enhancements

First Fruits
Lay Down your Life
Abraham's Servant to Ur
Blessings
Pentecost
Joseph Before Pharaoh
Consider the Lillies
He is Risen
Reach of Desperation
Words of Encouragement
Birth Foretold
A Child is Born promo
Authority of Christ promo

2 evil characters

The Amalekite's Slave
Malchus

Final Score of finals - 5-1-1-0

This is basically my "No defense" T1 2 player deck, and it works well for multi.  The main tweak I made was to make 6 of the lost souls "plain Jane", no special ability, and here's why:  I WANT someone to come and get my lost souls in a multi-player game.  I want to be known around the table as the guy who gives away lost souls for free, so I don't want restrictions on my lost souls like "NT only", "Female Only", "2 liner", "First Round Protected", etc.  Those restrictions make it more likely that they will go after someone else's lost souls - lost souls that I want to rescue too.  Also, because I don't have a defense, I'm begging other players to use their Unholy Writs, dominants, etc, to stop their fellow players, meaning they hopefully won't have those cards to use against ME later.  Yes, its risky to give lost souls away, but the main goal is for ME to always have a lost souls available on my turn.

Cards I'd strongly consider adding?  Destruction of Nehushtan (which I can't believe is not already in here), and Unholy Writ.

Final note:  Lay Down your Life is an AWESOME multi-player card!  It has saved my rescuing hero multiple times now from Christian Martyr.  I highly advise adding this card to multi-player decks.

No on Mayhem, because it is in my Abom deck

Did you see that I played it against Brederic's Disciples deck while we waited?  Disciples have a TC enhancement that discards an enhancement in territory, and then Matthew can recur it because its from Matthew   And it doesn't matter anyway, because once he gets Fishing Boat out, which NOTHING can touch, he has access to all sites.  Game over

Disciples killed site lock and Abom all at the same time