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T1 Multiplayer Nats, 1st place.

Lost Souls:
Female Only
N.T. Only
Revealer
*/4 or Greater Only
Shuffler
Hopper
Fool
Wanderer

Sites:
Dragon Raid

Dominants:
Angel of the Lord
Son of God
New Jerusalem
Falling Away
Destruction of Nehushtan
Mayhem
Christian Martyr

Artifacts:
Silver Trumpets
Magic Charms
Urim and Thummin
Chariot of Fire
Golden Cherubim

Fortresses:
Wall of Protection
Zerubbabel’s Temple

Covenants/Curses:
Covenant with Phinehas

Good Enhancements:
First Fruits
Benedictus
Filling Zerubbabel’s Temple
Scapegoat
Ezra’s Journey
Burning Incense
Trumpet Blast
Zeal for the Lord
Jehoiada’s Strength
Protection of Jerusalem
Striking Herod

Evil Enhancements:
Achan’s Sin
Slave Trade
Forgotten History
Death of Unrighteous
Invoking Terror
Scattered

Heroes:
Cherubim
Haggai
Eliashib the High Priest
Joiakim, Son of Joshua
Joida, Son of Eliashib
Phineas, Son of Eleazar
Ahimaaz (Priests)
Joshua the High Priest

Evil Characters:
King Jehoiakim
Balaam (Disciples)
Esau the Hunter
King Manasseh
Chaldeans
Astrologers
Damsel with Spirit of Divination

Congratulations on winning T1-MP! Thanks for sharing your deck list with the community.

I'll have to admit that if you had shown me your deck list prior to Nationals I would not have guessed that you'd have the level of success that you did. Mainly because it breaks two core principles that I follow for T1-MP deck building.

• Use a minimum of 10 Heroes, usually more
• Don't use more Enhancements than characters

That's not a diss on your deck at all. Your playing skill and the deck took you to the top! It makes me want to re-evaluate some of my practices to see if they are still the best choices. Results oriented thinking isn't the best practice, but it certainly warrants consideration.

Specifically with the number of territory class and set aside Enhancements that a deck can play these days, it might be viable now to run more good Enhancements than Heroes. That allowed you to keep a large number of potential battle winners available, which I imagine made it so you could take a Lost Soul when there was one available to be rescued.

I love the use of multiple mass banding cards. Taking Heroes from every player when you're rescuing is not only fun, but it makes people think twice about stopping you when it will cost them.

What made you choose First Fruits over Pentecost?

@Koala: I had the ability to bring back my First Fruits multiple times with Joida, so that wasn't a problem. Although slightly inefficient, it gave me what I needed. I never wanted for battle winners. And, people simply weren't carrying cards to kill my protection, so my heroes were made invincible by protection.

@Gabe: Same reason. My heroes were essentially unkillable, except by numbers. So, I stampede my enemies with their own heroes. And, I could beat down my opponents with my battle winners. And, honestly, I do not own Pentecost. First Fruits was all I had!

@TheGuardian: I had the ability to pretty much rescue any available LS, and I was kind of banking on people not having FA because of the likelihood of most people having GoYS. I didn't have much of a problem with it.


Thanks for the feedback!