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Your deck should most always be between 50-56 cards.  This allows you to get to your good cards faster without them being diluted in a lot of fluff.  The only reason that you would want to have more cards would be if it is part of your strategy.  A turtle deck or defensive heavy deck might want to have more cards.

From what I've seen on this forum I wondered as much. However, I am still open to suggestions on this point.

It's been a she since a 56 took Nat's.

There is a great article in redemption meta gaming by Westy about why smaller decks are better.
http://redemptionmetagaming.blogspot.com/2014/05/why-smaller-decks-are-better.html

I am personally a fan of the 154 card Disciples/Babylonians/Demons deck. I play no dominants, have defense for days, and have enough draw to max out my hand size on a regular basis during a game. It will not win Nats but it is a bunch of fun and the guys in my playgroup see it as a personal achievement to be able to get through and rescue even one soul...which happens occasionally.

I would argue that anything between 50-57 could be considered "optimal" for a number of different reasons. For years, 50 was nearly universally considered the best, for the reasons outlined in the linked article that Westy wrote. I think most of the reasons originally cited still hold, but there are so many good options in most viable themes, that many decks can benefit by having a couple extra battle winners or draw abilities. It's now easily possible to get above 50 cards without including any "fluff" cards. Plus, Son of God and New Jerusalem are now more easily searched out, which makes drawing into them less necessary than it was 3-4 years ago. An important thing to keep in mind is that Redemption has never been popular enough to generate sufficient sample sizes, so anyone who insists that something is definitely better than someone else based on results is going to be using unreliable data. Plus, it doesn't matter if "X deck from 2010 won Y category at Nats and had Z cards" because the card selection is wildly different than what it was then. Even so, the principals outlined in Westy's article from less year do generally hold up, so anything higher than 57 is going to run into some major problems, and I believe that the cons of playing a larger deck at that point outweigh the pros.

Quote from: uthminister [BR] on March 27, 2015, 02:08:32 PM

I am personally a fan of the 154 card Disciples/Babylonians/Demons deck. I play no dominants, have defense for days, and have enough draw to max out my hand size on a regular basis during a game. It will not win Nats but it is a bunch of fun and the guys in my playgroup see it as a personal achievement to be able to get through and rescue even one soul...which happens occasionally.

Could this deck be possible and practicle in T1.

Dude, it is a T1 deck.

154 is viable but you can't just screw around. MasterQ had the right idea and was a pro at it. IMO it was one turn away from winning nationals.