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I know TGT, and Jacob/RTC but what else is out there that i can put in a pre-block ignore deck? Suggestions please.

Peace Treaty is also really good, with Cherubim to ET.

King David.  He practically ignores some entire themes.

Peace Treaty is also really good, with Cherubim to ET.

Peace Treaty
"OT Hero ignores one evil brigade except orange or may band to a human hero."

I had an entire T2 offense that centered around this... never played it at any official events where a judge would have been involved.  I started getting an uneasy about the "OT hero" part of the ability and asked a few guys at Nationals. We all came to the sad conclusion that "OT hero" refers to the character upon which it is played (in this case Ethiopian Treasurer) rather than being a "target OT hero" sort of ability.

I would positively LOVE to be proved wrong though 

Yeah I remember you, Kevin, and I just starring at the card talking about it. I'm entirely fine with either interpretation. It either has a qualifier (if this card is played on an OT hero) or makes a target (select OT hero ignores). In MTG terms one would expect to see something like "target creature" whereas Redemption tends to use "select" in those cases.


Back on the Pre-Block Ignore train for you J-Bones:
Purple, Blue, and Silver offense would Yield:
Jacob + RTC
Cherubim + ET + Peace Treaty
Cherubim + ET + Spiritual Warfare (Three Nails)
King David
Widow
Last and least, Witness to Creation

Running Sadducees (with Chief Priests) with it allows you to use Urim and Thummim to "fool proof" your RA ("oh look, they have all royalty and no CM") as well as giving you a protect fort to enjoy ET+AoCP to wipe their field.

Quote from: Professoralstad on January 30, 2013, 10:30:41 AM

Watchful Servant, but that strategy is only really good in turtles. The rest can be incorporated into other decks fairly easily.

There's also Witnesses to Creation, but that's so 7? 8? years ago...

Ahem, do you not recall Kansas City Nationals in 2007? Granted I was using 2 decks, but I believe I used the Witnesses Deck in at least half my games. I remember one game where my 5 successful rescues were all 5 Witnesses (plus SoG/NJ).

How did it work? How did you recur it? etc..

Quote from: Professoralstad on January 30, 2013, 10:30:41 AM

Watchful Servant, but that strategy is only really good in turtles. The rest can be incorporated into other decks fairly easily.

There's also Witnesses to Creation, but that's so 7? 8? years ago...

Ahem, do you not recall Kansas City Nationals in 2007? Granted I was using 2 decks, but I believe I used the Witnesses Deck in at least half my games. I remember one game where my 5 successful rescues were all 5 Witnesses (plus SoG/NJ).

That's what I was referring to, just couldn't remember which Nationals it was.

Haha, yeah...pretty sure it wouldn't be possible to use a single Witnesses 5 times in one T1 game. Usually the offense would start pretty slow, but it was devastating in the endgame when I would have 3 or 4 turns in a row with a Witnessed Angel coming back to make a rescue.

Saint of Virtue and spiritual warfare and three nails

And one I thought of myself, use gathering on Eve. Use Gold shield to convert her to white. Band her to ET and play Scarlet line. It will never work.

There's a better way to do that. By better, I mean cooler and much less likely.

And one I thought of myself, use gathering on Eve. Use Gold shield to convert her to white. Band her to ET and play Scarlet line. It will never work.

Some people do: Maharai (warriors) to Claudia (womens) to ET and play Scarlet Line.

Quote from: Nameless on January 30, 2013, 05:35:21 PM

Saint of Virtue and spiritual warfare and three nails

And one I thought of myself, use gathering on Eve. Use Gold shield to convert her to white. Band her to ET and play Scarlet line. It will never work.

There's a better way to do that. By better, I mean cooler and much less likely.

It was just a dumb thing I thought of one day.