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Personally, I find brown to be a lot of fun, but that's because I always abuse number-decreasing and disease cards.

Deacons is the lamest theme I mean come on 7 characters and only two of them have any good use? And only one enhansment even says deacon on it! I think Deacons get this award second to none.

comeing from mr>decon LOL

lamest theme of decks i think are:

garden tomb cause when i played a garden tomb offense, it's been used against me and there should be a ruling that forbids my own garden tomb from being used against me and anyone else who plays it.

Z.temple cause you can't do ANYTHING to get rid of their offense, wether it'd be discard,removal,convert or capture when it's with covenant with phinehas

speed cause it's for noobs

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sitelock cause it's not fair for anyone whose playong sitelock to get locked out and no longe have access while their opponent gets up to 5 souls for an unfair win.

Remember kiddies, when you can't figure out how to beat something whine and call it lame.

lamest theme of decks i think are:

garden tomb cause when i played a garden tomb offense, it's been used against me and there should be a ruling that forbids my own garden tomb from being used against me and anyone else who plays it.

I haven't played a garden tomb deck yet but I don't see the big problem with it.  It can be easy to get around and even dominate.  I wont call it lame I would call it good but beatable

Z.temple cause you can't do ANYTHING to get rid of their offense, wether it'd be discard,removal,convert or capture when it's with covenant with phinehas

I cant agree that this is lame.  This is anything BUT Lame.  If they have lampstand in z-s temple and especially with the new jonathan son of jehodia card, this makes z-temple offenses very powerful.  When it gets like this, it becomes tough to negotiate around aside from a site lockout.  I agree that it isn't fun to play with, but I cant agree that it is lame [/quote]

speed cause it's for noobs

Whatever, speed is good and it is not for noobs.

sitelock cause it's not fair for anyone whose playong sitelock to get locked out and no longe have access while their opponent gets up to 5 souls for an unfair win.

Site lockout is easy to get around...if you plan for site access and put those cards in your deck.  I love this defense because so many people can fall victim to it

black is weak.

no black is a good brigade to use to tell ya the truth.
i'v used it and i seem to make it work

Quote from: crustpope on February 10, 2009, 09:20:26 AM

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speed cause it's for noobs

Whatever, speed is good and it is not for noobs.

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sitelock cause it's not fair for anyone whose playong sitelock to get locked out and no longe have access while their opponent gets up to 5 souls for an unfair win.

Site lockout is easy to get around...if you plan for site access and put those cards in your deck.  I love this defense because so many people can fall victim to it

speed is for n00bs presisely because it's so good.

lol Raven, you're calling your own deck lame and good in the same sentance? wow.

Sit lockout is nigh impossible to get around. in my sitelock deck (I don't use it in tournaments that I care about though, as I timed out miserably last time), I use Zebulon as my offence. I have 30?ish evil cards in my deck. recuring Taking Naboth's Vineyard with King Nadab, who it cannot be negated on, kills all sites, and then you have to waste a card on a BC to get rid of him. then you pull out that one crimson mask to get rid of any others. artifacts are easy. I captured ark you, I Crucify Him you, I DoN you, and I think I might have LuG in there. when a defence is built around sitelock, it's impossible to stop, so my opponents seem to just stall, thinking that there IS a way around it, which there is not. I've stopped using access sites, because if you use a site deck, gg, let's time out.

O_o; you've never played against me with a site lock deck have you? Not saying site lock isn't powerful, but unstoppable? No way, not even CLOSE to true.

the most boring defence: brown birgade (sorry SJsharks)
the defence i've played with a lot of pazaz: roman emporers
the most wierdest deffence i've played with: assyrians


the most boring offence i've played with: angels
the offence with a lot of pazaz: musicians
the most wierdest offence i've played with: priests

dude angels rock i'm tacking it to riegonals!

Quote from: crustpope on February 10, 2009, 09:20:26 AM

I haven't played a garden tomb deck yet but I don't see the big problem with it. 

The first part of your sentence is the complete reason for the second part of your sentence.  It almost makes me want to build a stereotypical TGT deck just to show you

Update, I just demolished a TGT Deck 5-0.  TGT are great against splash or standalone defenses.  If you play a rogue defense or a theme defense then TGT are VERY weak.  I had no problem with anything the TGT threw at me.

True, one win doesn't make me an athourity on beating the TGT, but I do know that if you play only one color on the defense, then TGT looses a lot of its power.

I've stopped using access sites, because if you use a site deck, gg, let's time out.

I find access sites to still be useful against non-site-lock-out decks.  Almost all decks have Hormah these days, and often there will be one other site thrown in for some combo based on it.  These decks don't usually focus on killing the access so it works.  For that matter total site-lock-out doesn't seem to work anymore with all the ways to create LSs (TAS, Hopper, Malchus, Seeker, Hur + Gifts, Harvest Time, and LS creators like Pot's Wife, Elders, War Officer, Recruiting Officer, Servant Girl, etc.)
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With the babylon/banquet LS Lokout decks, there is more room for LS so they can absorb the extra LS because very few will use all of them.  if you have 5 babylons, a multi color site and a banquet hall then you can hold 11 LS (12 with a doubler) SO that gives you lots of room for the extra LS.  I havent seen a lot of people use elders of the city although I have been using it lately.  Pots wife is getting alot of play b/c of the egyptian defense, but usually people want to d/c cards not use pots wife.

I had no problem with anything the TGT threw at me.

OK, stereotypical TGT coming your way, buddy.  If for no other reason than to add another person to the cause of never printing another pre-block ignore card in Redemption   PM me your schedule, and we'll get a game or 2 in this week.

choose the blocker, and those "unfair" stratagies get toned down to the point where they're about as easy to stop as other good offensive stratagies

At least we have Kingdoms of this World.

These are the same people who griped about FBN for seven years.  They're quick to recognize power but slow to adapt to it.

Then why don't I hear more griping about heroless?

It's not the same people. The people that gripe about heroless do it in the privacy of their own home (aka LAN).