So I had the idea to use a deck centered around the 4 taunting evil characters prior to the announcement of rotation in order to deal with the powerful offenses that can't seem to be stopped. The basic idea was to win by attrition through mostly winning taunts with Shimei and then bouncing him to do it over and over. If they choose not to block his taunt at first, that's fine because once they figure out you are bouncing him every turn they are forced to block it. The intent at this point was to use Love of Money + All Hope Lost/Fearfulness to punish the almost sure use of banding chains against Shimei's taunt. I wasn't seeing a lot of healing being played in the top decks that were being posted so I figured this would be pretty devastating if it hits just once but also figured I'd need to be able to negate bouncing/healing also so DoN (PoC) and Chronicles (LoC) would be essential to have in hand to stop a bounce or heal enhancement/artifact. Goliath can also use Adjourn since it just needs to count Greeks, not be used by a Greek, but for the most part you are either taunting with Shimei or Lamech. Lamech would be used to get past Isaiah (probably leading to Jeremiah to end their band instead) or slowly snipe all of the heroes from territory if you get to the point the opponent literally cannot block your taunt if all their heroes are paralyzed. Both All Hope Lost and Fearfulness are played off the expectation that the opponent is getting their offense set up in 1 or two turns so you can withstand and early 2-0 as long as you paralyze the important Heroes (toss heroes, protect heroes, LoC Noah, or crucial banding bridges like Jehoshaphat) and a bunch of others to significantly limit what they can rescue with.
I am curious if this would be workable now that rotation is here. All Hope Lost can no longer be used but Love of Money + Fearfulness still hits 7 heroes and that puts them out for 7 turns so if you can't win in that time this deck probably isn't going to succeed. Incurable is still there and so is Adjourn and Fearfulness as well as the 3 snakes. I could see this defense going a few ways to fill it out, either antediluvian, or Greek NT LS protect, or brown decrease. Brown decrease may be the best because of how prevalent Noah is becoming so Cursed Ground will be a high X/X and Provoked or No Regard for the Lord can be played in territory to snipe someone who has already be decreased and of course Gideon's Ephod. But antediluvian pale green would be playable on Rabshakeh and of course Lamech. I don't know that Greek NT LS protection would be super potent but worth trying if you're going to try to maximize Adjourn by putting in more Greek evil characters.
I was not sure what type of offense I would pair with this but it would need to be something that can win the attrition battle as this deck isn't designed to win fast, it just needs to be able to attack over an over until the opponent runs out of blocks. I considered heavy angels with Chamber + I am Holy but that's not an option in rotation and also takes a really long time. I would think prophets might be good because they have staying power, good board control with Habakkuk and Jonah, and strong attacking heroes that band. Access to Chariot of Fire and Enoch for ways to get redeemed souls from yourself instead of opponent's LoB would also be nice.
Thoughts, comments?
