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I'm hoping to start some new players in Redemption using the I/J decks. I have a huge pile of common cards laying around, and this got me to thinking. How could you do a "cheap" upgrade of the starter decks? Sure, anyone can add a NJ, Grapes, AoCp, and cards like that, but how could you make these decks better (if not exactly tournament-ready) on a budget? So here's my proposal:

Build a deck out of the cards in the Starter sets. You'll choose one as your "base" deck, but you can add cards from the other starter for free. (So you can add the extra doms, swap out a defense/offense, etc.) The deck must follow T1 deck building rules, but can be any size you can make it under the contest restrictions.

Now you get your budget: $10. But you've already spent $6.25 for your starter deck (I'm only charging for one!), so you only have $3.75 left. AND you can only buy cards that list for under 0.30 at 3LG. (With Ken's new prices, you might be able to squeeze out some extra cards.) At 0.25 or so each, that gives you 15 cards you can add to your deck.

How will we choose a winner? Why, playing the decks, of course. I just happen to have four experienced Redemption players in my house, so we'll have fun seeing which deck comes out on top. There will be at a minimum a double round robin, so flukey luck should even out. How long this will take depends on how many entries there are.

Is there a prize? Why, yes, there is. The winner can have an assortment of 200 non-duplicated common cards! Or, you can choose one of the following cards instead: Water to Wine promo, Chastisement of the Lord promo, Bartimaeus promo, Leviathan, King Saul (Ki), or Samaria site (Priests).

Post your decks here. I'll wait a while before cutting off entries, and then we'll announce a winner as soon as we have one. Have fun!

(All playtesters/relatives of the poster/players from NJ named Braun are prohibited from entering this contest.)

Looks cool.

1) Under .30 (so max .29). I had to draw my arbitrary line somewhere. 

2) Yes, cards from the other starter are free. I wanted to allow for the switching of offenses and defenses without cost, as well as the ability to use all the dominants and multi cards if you want to.

PMing is fine. I promise to keep your secrets until the contest is finished.

Yep. I'm not putting a hard deadline on it yet, since it's going to be a summer project. I'll wait and see how many people want to try it out. At some point, I will close off entries, but I'll give plenty of notice.

When I first started playing redemption I did the exact same thing with my starter decks-that was until I found TLG...