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Depends on your style of play and deck-building ability, as does just about everything. If your defenses never work, try using none.

Defense is the best part for me .  For all four of my decks, I build the defense first and then the offense.  If you want a low defense, you could try site-lock (either with brown or gold with building egypt (and with gold, you can have KOT without fear of GT)).  It might help you.....for now.

Offense is a waste of time!

Defenseless decks have been effective in the past.  The trick is to use it to hammer your opponent as much as possible as fast as possible, before they catch on to the fact that most of their rescues will be free points, and start walking over.

I personally am a much more defensive player than most, and I look for all kinds of ways to stop a rescue.  But I think that boils down a lot more to play style than anything.  Some people are tanks, some are ninjas, some like balance, some like working a theme that no one is expecting, or expecting to work.

Offense is a waste of time!

As much as I love Hulking Huge defenses I do have a few compact ones for when I use a normal offense. It must be built properly though and you must know what you are doing. Babylonians do well in compact defenses.

Signed,
The Heroless.

P.s. Your title offends me

If you read his post, he suggests that defense is a waste unless it's a big one like you guys employ. He thinks a small to medium sized one is worthless, not your "35 card behemoth."

If you read his post, he suggests that defense is a waste unless it's a big one like you guys employ. He thinks a small to medium sized one is worthless, not your "35 card behemoth."

Well he said Site Lock was too easy to beat. 

I agree though, your defense needs to be built with the offense in mind. Have a slow starting offense? Make sure your defense can get up and go quickly and hold off for a while... or use a similar theme as your offense, like tims defense.

use raiders camp assyrians.(or at least try)

it's in my Jseat deck

Has anyone ever been a National Champion without a defense?
I think that in most (if not all) sports, games, the championship usually has a solid defense. Defense isn't going to win LS but it usually determines the championship.

Jds 05 also just a basic stall defence, also a 50 card deck. So in the past 4 yrs 2 of the decks that won natz utalized small defences to stall. This is the kind of defence I condone!

I myself am also a fan of defense, and while I've done the monstrosity 30-40 card defenses before I usually end up with about a 20 card defense (not including doms). While this is a little bigger than you were talking about I find that it usually holds up relitively well in the end. It comes down to having a combination of stall blocks and having stuff that can keep your opponent away for a while. That way your stalls can block while you get the rest of your defense set up. The way I usually do this is with brigades like pale green and gray which have great stalls like the suicide characters and others. These  can give you time to set up a raiders camp defense which can last a while. In the end its all a balancing act.