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"Judges and a Jar"

Built by: Justin Alstad

Piloted by: Jordan Alstad & Martin Miller

Cards in deck: 53

Lost Souls:
CBP LS
NT Only LS
3 Liner LS
Revealer LS
Wanderer LS
Retribution LS
Female Only LS

Hopper LS

Dominants:
Son of God
Mayhem
New Jerusalem/Guardian of Your Souls
Falling Away/Grapes of Wrath
Christian Martyr/Vain Philosophy
Shipwreck/Angel of the Lord
Burial/Destruction of Nehushtan

Sites:
Dragon Raid (Promo)

Artifacts:
Golden Cherubim
Samaritan Water Jar

Heroes:
Aaron (Di)
Samuel (RoA)
Gideon
Moses (WA)
Jephthah (J)
Jair (RoA)
Ehud (RoA)
Simeon (WA)
The Woman at the Well
Angel with the Secret Name (RoA)
Captain of the Host (WA)
The Angel under the Oak
King David

Good Enhancements:
Wheel within a Wheel (FooF)
Meeting the Messiah
Deborah's Directive
Ambush the City
Ehud's Dagger
Samuel's Edict

Evil Characters:
Foreign Wives
Egyptian Magicians
The Amalekites' Slave
Pharaoh's Cupbearer
King of Tyrus (WA)
The Dreaming Pharaoh
Egyptian Warden

Evil Enhancements:
Abandonment
Evil Spirit (K)
Failed Objective
Besieging the City
Swift Horses (D)
Lies
Wonders Forgotten

Curses:
Rain Becomes Dust

Since neither of our usual TEAMS partners (Jayden Alstad & Nathan Voigt) could make it to Nationals, Martin and I were originally going to be teammates for the TEAMS event. I created the original deck list and then Jordan, Martin and I all worked to refine it Friday night. However, since I had a pretty successful Day 1 and Day 2, it made sense for me to be the official judge for Day 3 so that John (Day 1 judge) and Dayne (Day 2 judge) could both play on Day 3. The plan was made for Jordan to take my spot (unless Dayne decided not to play in Sealed. As it turns out, Dayne did in fact do Sealed, but I won't spoil anything about that...)

The goal of the deck was to pull off the Besieging the City/Mayhem combo on one of the players on the other team, which would give us a huge overall card advantage (essentially two hands playing against one). RBD and Golden Cherubim would then keep the other team from catching up.

The offense was a fairly standard Judges offense with Simeon and the Woman at the Well/Samaritan Water Jar combo. Those who know me know that I absolutely despise Water Jar for T2, but I think it's a great card for T1.

The defense is not one normally seen in TEAMS, but I was drawn to the number of CBN options Evil Gold had (both in characters and enhancements). The CBP Lost Soul bolstered the non-CBN enhancements as they were the type of enhancements that you did not need to play anything after (such as Failed Objective/Lies) or they interrupted in the case of Swift Horses.

I will let Jordan and/or Martin comment on what worked/didn't work and what changes they would make after playing six rounds against very good competition.

I'm guessing the tournament report goes something like this?? 

Should ask Blake but didn't we instead a ehud dagger off ehud and then win BTN? They may have even been martins ehud.  Or maybe I am crazy.

really great t1 deck, even better for teams great job on this one!! seems like a fun deck to play any time! love the gold defense!

oh yeah once they had 2 water jars off on my deck we were pretty far behind with blocks and i can only imagine how the besieging the city mayhem combo would have looked for us hahaha i want to use that combo with the egyptian rebel ^^ there are so many fun things to do with him in the new set

You wouldn't be able to return the Heroes in battle to hand since that would insert SI before you could drop Mayhem, but otherwise yes...Arrogance just became playable...

Well they would be attacking so you would not target the Heroes in battle but then you could win the battle with WF. Then as soon as battle ends you drop Mayhem before they can put their Heroes back down. (Unless you started these shenanigans in a side battle...hmm...)