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Offline Josh

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Red/Purple hand control
« on: May 22, 2018, 12:53:18 PM »
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This has been brewing in my mind since playtesting.  This is a very rough draft. 

Goal is to abuse I Am Holy followed by an attack w/ Jehu (equipped hopefully) or Mighty Warrior (pretty much always tossing first EE).

Would love to pair it with a Gray/Orange hand control defense if possible.

Support:
I Am Holy
Ram's Horn (to help protect Jehu's sniping of EEs)
Eternal Covenant (keep Jehu in play)

Heroes:
Jehu
Mighty Warrior
Ethiopian Treasurer (6th Seal and AoCP preblock, yes please)
Amasai the Raider (finally!)
Other Red/Purple Goodstuff

Enhancements:
4th Bowl/Seal (whichever is Silver/Red and hits an EE in hand along with an EC)
6th Bowl/Seal (whichever is Silver/Purple and hits 2 evil cards in hand)
Good Red weapons (Jehu's Sword/Sword of the Spirit/Foreign Sword/etc)
Bravery of David/AoCP/A Soldier's Prayer (CBN EEs on Jehu protects Jehu's sniping of EEs)
Other Red/Purple Goodstuff

What else do we need?
« Last Edit: May 22, 2018, 12:57:10 PM by Josh »
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Re: Red/Purple hand control
« Reply #1 on: May 22, 2018, 01:20:29 PM »
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A few suggestions for the Red/Purple extras:
David to pull out everyone red.  Uriah to make Jehu's discards CBN. Asahel for a choose the blocker/band. Abigail for drawing. Josh/Caleb if you wanna hailstones away a defense. Amaziah for a cheap block with Ahimelek. Oh, and Ahimelek for the CBN return to hand.

As far as enhancements go, Not Alone/Battle Cry/United Kingdom if you wanna double down on Ahimelek. Faith of David's a good battle extender, especially if you have David, Jehu, and Joshua. Valley of salt is decent and can be devastating of Amaziah if you run him.

And Throne for extra drawing if you ever have a king in battle.
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Re: Red/Purple hand control
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2018, 01:41:54 PM »
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Quote from: Asahel24601 on May 22, 2018, 01:20:29 PM
As far as enhancements go, Not Alone/Battle Cry/United Kingdom if you wanna double down on Ahimelek.

One great thing about putting both ET and Ahimelek in the same offense is that Not Alone and Battle Cry become soooooo much better   ;)
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Re: Red/Purple hand control
« Reply #3 on: May 22, 2018, 01:55:41 PM »
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While it's not quite as good as Jehu's Sword, Warrior's Spear is another good weapon on Jehu (and Spy is also great if you include that).

If you want to go a slightly different direction, Isaiah is great with I am Holy, Mighty Warrior, and Hezekiah (if you go with Throne).

Also, Grail can help keep in check any extra evil humans that Jehu and his sword can't kill in one sweep.
« Last Edit: May 22, 2018, 03:58:03 PM by Bobbert »
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Re: Red/Purple hand control
« Reply #4 on: May 22, 2018, 01:56:37 PM »
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Faith of David is incredible, especially with jehu and Ahimelek in the same deck. Add jehu to battle, exchange for Ahimelek, instant battle winner. I've also found FoD to barak to be a nice back up if needed, but it's not really necessary.

Quote from: Bobbert on May 22, 2018, 01:55:41 PM
If you want to go a slightly different direction, Isaiah is great with I am Holy, Mighty Warrior, and Hezekiah (if you go with Throne).
Also this  +1

As for the defense, I haven't tried a super hand control heavy defense, but i have a similar deck (more focused on music and Isaiah shenanigans) and I run a pure orange defense in it. It's a ton of fun and very effective to abuse persistent pestering and wages with evil spawn and evil armor, so its definitely viable.   
« Last Edit: May 22, 2018, 02:01:04 PM by Ironisaac »
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