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Abraham's servant is great on Abe especially with Coliseum and his banding so is Sign of the Rainbow another consideration is how many good battle winners do you actually need if you can consistently clear the board with Isaac and Faith of Noah? the Creation of the World build is very fast with Answer to Prayer and Eve

I have to second the things mentioned by JD and John. In addition to the other powerful things an early Creation can do, repeated CBN Simeon + Levi can put a defense on it's heals. Couple that with I am Holy for twice the brutality.

If you go the CTB route, you don't have to use a defense that's not popular, you only need to have characters with a defense of 3 or less so they die instantly when you have Covenant with Adam or Crown of Thorns active. The idea behind CTB is to get initiative so you can play a bunch of nasty stuff, or win instantly.

If you're set on using Abraham you should be sure to include a pair of Abe's Army and reliable ways to capture Heroes.

Depending on the defense you use Cup or Wrath can also be a powerful ally.

If you end up in green, Faith of Samuel can become a CBI battle winner with Abe's Army. And you get it back with CoW.

One more plug for Abe's Army. I hear Egyptians might be OK. A converted Cupbearer makes for some interesting plays.

There are a lot of powerful paths to victory using Genesis. But it plays differently that other brigades.

If the Crimson you mentioned is Babylonians then most likely capture will be a big part of your defense (Head of Gold/Magic Charms) so Abram's Army x2 fits incredibly well.

Aside from that, I think the best option is going to be Coliseum and all the Genesis negates. Jacob/Rachel/Captain of the Host is still a very strong band, especially with Answer to Prayer still being at your disposal. Cov of Noah takes care of CBP Lost Soul.

Coliseum stops protection chump blocks so you would just need to run Thorns LS to stop DoU/SSS.

Thanks for all the great responses everybody!

Based on what everone has mentioned so far, it seems to me that Genesis is very centered around characters and negates, more so than any other brigade.

In light of that, I agree that Coliseum + negates seems to be the best way to go.

I would still like to have some battle winners, however, so I came up with this little build that uses the blue mostly for negates and recursion, and the green for the battle winners.

Total Good:  37

Good Doms: 5
SoG/TSC/AotL/GoW/GoYS

Good Forts: 1
Cloud of Witnesses

Covenants: 2
You will remain
Eternal Covenant

Heroes: 17
The Angel of the Winds
The Angel at Shur x2
Ezekiel x2
Hosea
Abram's Army
Melchizedek
Enoch
Jacob (Israel)
Noah x2
Eli the Priest
Abraham x2
Isaac x2

Good Enhancements: 12
Love
Faith of Abraham
Faith of Samuel x2
Two Bears x4
Abraham's Descendant x4

Sites: 4
Golgotha x2
CP x2

DAEs: 4
Forest Fire x2
Drawn Sword x2

Evil Forts: 3
Coliseum x3

Eli is in here to grab some artifacts that are important for the defense.

Love is in here because I can use it to convert Abraham/Isaac to green if I need to, since they are both prophets, and I can use it to both heal a character and then exchange it to deck via Noah and reuse it.

My idea is to use Abraham's Descendant and Two Bears to recur EEs off of Golgotha, including the DAE Ezekiel battle winners. That way my offense is almost endlessly fed battle winners/negates from Abe's Kid and Two Bears recursion.

I only have two Babylonians on defense, so I won't be doing any capturing.

My biggest concerns are Moses negating Abraham's Descendant, and Hezekiah's Signet Ring keeping me out of the discard pile.

Also, I wasn't sure how many Coliseum's I should have. I consider it an integral part of the offense and would want to have one out all the time. I also expect it to get taken out at some point by Shipwreck or something so I think I'd need at least 2.

Confusion x2 and HSR x 1-3 and good game. Your original post said what you did not want the deck to be like, but I never saw you say what you actually wanted to accomplish with the deck. What is your goal for this deck? Why are you making it? It can't be for play testing purposes as this is a very unconventional deck. I'm asking this because you got some great advice, and the build you created was, well not the same as the advice given, and I want to know what you are trying to get out of this deck, so I can give advice accordingly.
Why do you not want to use Sons of Jacob?
Have you tried building off of Noah's Ark?
Your newest build uses green yet you didn't include Creation of this World.
Blue can be very fast, it can search for the hero's needed, or all hero's, bring out certain components of your deck, and even has the ability to draw as much as needed, yet I do not see any of that in your build. In today's game of type 2, speed and set up is crucial. You can bet on your opponent having their strategy, and getting to their strategy/setting up their strategy within the first few turns. Drawing coupled with searching is used in all top decks, at least offensively, if not partially done defensively, so I feel like in order to be competitive you either shut down searching, and you draw, or vice versa. That or you do what most do, you as well draw and search. This offense looks almost stagnant as it has no way to get those GE's you put on the bottom of your deck, best you can do is search for nothing with one of your hero's and shuffle your deck.
Faith of Noah and The Flood are mass kill cards and you could protect your own if you build correctly, or play it at the right time.
I would also try to encourage that searching more and add another Faith of Abraham then subtract an Abraham from your hero's. I also see 6 Battle winner's on your offense, unless you include the DaE's, all of which are negateable, even you said Two Bears is negated 9 out of 10 times, so recurring that doesn't necessarily help, but recurring a mass kill card (Faith of Noah), you can play that first, knowing they will negate if they can, then you play Two Bears. If they don't negate FoN, then that hurts them all the more. Abraham gets to play it first as well, and The Flood if you add that. If you are going to have prophets, Ob's Cave never hurts.
I personally like Faith of Enoch as you can place it on larger cloud hero's for a kamikaze and puts pressure on them. It also is a way to keep a hero as a target, instead of a different one. I really like Faith Among Corruption. I would cut Golgotha x2 and add a Faith Among Corruption, then sub one Abe's kid for a Faith Among. I personally feel like if you utilize the right hero's then the angels in your deck are not needed. Also, The Guardian is right, a Captain band is still hard to beat. 
edit: I just saw you have no Throne of Grace!?!?!

Knowing tripleplay03, I am almost certain that there is more to this deck than he's letting on (likely something crazy with the defense), and he just wanted help brainstorming some different offense options. 

I am 99.9% sure that this is correct.  The OP should have had a disclosure along the lines of "Please note that this is a combo deck, and therefore my hands are tied on defense, as well as partially on offense.  Do not be offended if I ignore sound and well-reasoned advice." 

yeah man i definitely feel you on deck building being an art. everyone's own unique sensibilities go into the forms they ultimately take. that's why i really admire the champions deck choices and how unique they all are.

Update! The Guardian is officially the first person to figure out the missing links to the combo! I'll go a bit longer without spoiling it in case others still want to guess, but then I'll spoil it so we can get on with, hopefully, a more tailored and all inclusive deck building discussion.

Also, I'm starting to think Abraham + Sarah + Rachel + Jacob + Captain might be pretty strong.

If Rachel + Jacob + Captain can't get it done, I doubt the addition of Abraham will help much 

Far from being limited to T2, its simple a long string of amazing plays that you can do with the TopDeck.