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Player: John Earley

Here is the deck that I won T2MP with:

Cards in deck: 100
Lost Souls: 16
   Lost Soul (anti-burial)
   Lost Soul (anti-burial)
   Lost Soul (can't be prevented)
   Lost Soul (can't be prevented)
   Lost Soul (Female Only)
   Lost Soul (Female Only)
   Lost Soul (hopper)
   Lost Soul (hopper)
   Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   Lost Soul (revealer)
   Lost Soul (revealer)
   Lost Soul (Thorns)
   Lost Soul (Thorns)
   Lost Soul (Wanderer)
   Lost Soul (Wanderer)

Lamb Dominants: 4
   Angel of the Lord
   Guardian Of Your Souls
   New Jerusalem
   Son of God

Grim Reaper Dominants: 5
   Burial
   Christian Martyr
   Destruction of Nehushtan
   Falling Away
   Mayhem

Artifacts: 10
   Hidden Treasures
   Hidden Treasures
   Hidden Treasures
   Magic Charms
   Magic Charms
   Magic Charms
   The Bronze Laver
   Unholy Writ
   Unholy Writ
   Unholy Writ

White Covenant Cards: 3
   Captured Ark (Crimson)
   Captured Ark (Crimson)
   Captured Ark (Crimson)

Silver Heroes: 5
   Captain of the Host
   Captain of the Host
   The Strong Angel
   The Strong Angel
   The Strong Angel

Gold Heroes: 2
   Moses
   Moses

Green Heroes: 12
   Abel
   Agabus
   Benaiah
   Benaiah
   Benaiah
   Habakkuk
   Joel
   Joel
   Micah
   Miriam
   Nahum
   Nathan

Green Hero Enhancements: 14
   A New Beginning
   A New Beginning
   A New Beginning
   A New Beginning
   A New Beginning
   Provisions
   Provisions
   Provisions
   Search
   Search
   Search
   Two Bears
   Two Bears
   Two Bears

Pale Green Evil Characters: 3
   User of Curious Arts
   User of Curious Arts
   User of Curious Arts

Gray Evil Characters: 13
   Ahithophel
   Emperor Nero
   Emperor Nero
   False Priests
   King Pekahiah
   Naaman
   Pharisees
   Pharisees
   Sabbath Breaker
   Sabbath Breaker
   Sabbath Breaker
   The Entrapping Pharisees
   The Entrapping Pharisees

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 1
   Just a Hireling (black/gray)

Pale Green Evil Enhancements: 3
   Divination
   Divination
   Divination

Gray Evil Enhancements: 9
   Bearing Bad News
   Bearing Bad News
   False Peace
   False Peace
   False Peace
   False Peace
   False Peace
   Momentum Change
   Momentum Change

As you can see it is a very basic ANB reset deck. It won 2 games at state, 3 at regionals and 2 at nationals, winning all three tournaments.

I could have beat that deck at regionals if I hadn't been stupid and played my Mayhem at a dumb time. That is, not to say it isn't a good deck or anything. Probably fun to play with.

Awesome deck!
Congrats!  

Congrats John, but seeing the defense now...It doesnt look as intimidating...Probably shoulda had more Fbtn in my deck....*grumble grumble*

Congrats John on winning, but I was offend when you said you don't want me to play CA way. That upset me for the entire game and the following game. LOL. Thanks.

ML.

in John's defense, I must say when I played you I did get confused at times what is what. I'm not used to the style you play, and neither is John.

it'd be nice if the PTB would set up a mandatory placement of cards.

Actually, the main offensive part wasn't the part he wanted me to play the traditional way, however, I have already told him that I don't know how to, and he is still wanting me to play. But it is all over, we are all cool now. Thanks.

ML.

Quote from: crustpope on August 16, 2010, 11:48:12 PM

Actually california style makes a whole lot of sense with Evil on one side and good on the other.  so if the PTB Do mandate a style, I think it should be California style...


But I woldnt hold my breath about mandating a specific style because all you have to do is ask your opponent what they have showing and they have to tell you.

why not just the style as shown in the rule book?

1. it an get confusing when EC's are converted and then sometimes "slip" back down to the EC level,
2. having to move your heros out of the way every time you block.
3. Artifacts getting lost in all the Fortress/art/discard clutter that happens around the draw pile.
4. Bigger decks need more room to spread out.
5. ...should I keep going?

Congrats John on winning, but I was offend when you said you don't want me to play CA way. That upset me for the entire game and the following game. LOL. Thanks.

ML.

With all due respect Mike, I dont feel like I was out of line in asking you to play as listed in the rulebook at all. If you're going to take offence to that then frankly you need to re-examine your priorities in life. Additionally, this is the type of thing that frankly doesn't need to come out on the boards, especially considering that we played in T22P and this is a thread about my T2MP deck - If you were truly that offended, you could have aproached me personally at the tournament, or through PM's. That being said, After I asked Kevin if you were required to switch if asked and he said no I relented, and let you play "California Style" - However if you will remeber there were at least 3 moments in the game where I was temporarily confused, the first that comes to mind if you moving Emp Nero over to what 87% of players think of as the discard pile, when I had converted him to blue. I even went to move him back into battle saying I wasn't discarding him, until you reminded me of your unorthodox set up.

I'll just repeat myself to make the point abundantly clear to future readers of this thread:

Why not just have a unified standard? i.e. the rulebook

P.S. Was 87% an arbitrary picked number or scientific poll?

Quote from: Michael_of_the_Star on August 16, 2010, 09:56:40 PM

Congrats John on winning, but I was offend when you said you don't want me to play CA way. That upset me for the entire game and the following game. LOL. Thanks.

ML.

With all due respect Mike, I dont feel like I was out of line in asking you to play as listed in the rulebook at all. If you're going to take offence to that then frankly you need to re-examine your priorities in life. Additionally, this is the type of thing that frankly doesn't need to come out on the boards, especially considering that we played in T22P and this is a thread about my T2MP deck - If you were truly that offended, you could have aproached me personally at the tournament, or through PM's. That being said, After I asked Kevin if you were required to switch if asked and he said no I relented, and let you play "California Style" - However if you will remeber there were at least 3 moments in the game where I was temporarily confused, the first that comes to mind if you moving Emp Nero over to what 87% of players think of as the discard pile, when I had converted him to blue. I even went to move him back into battle saying I wasn't discarding him, until you reminded me of your unorthodox set up.

With all of my respect, John, I apologize for commenting in the wrong topic, I am so sorry for commenting your Type II multiplayer deck, I got confused with the abbreviation. Lastly, congrats on your win again, I wish to make a treaty with you to make everything peacefully, and no more fighting or arguing. Thank you.

Michael Leung

 Wow!!!  Awesome deck! ~ Sorry for bringing this thread up again, but does anyone have any ideas of a ANB/TGT Deck ? Same concept... But with TGT. Any thoughts?

There is a thread in type 2 deck advice about that concept.

Ok, thanks Mr. Hiatus!

Quote from: Michael_of_the_Star on August 17, 2010, 09:32:57 PM

I got confused with the abbreviation

lulz @ the irony.

Why?