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2010 Teams 1st Place
« on: August 15, 2010, 11:40:00 PM »
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Kevin Shride and I were blessed to win the Teams event at Nationals for the 2nd year in a row leaving us undefeated in teams at 10-0.  We wanted to try something new this year so I built these decks a couple days before Nationals.  They're designed to share offense and defense with one another by banding.  I don't like having "dead cards" in my deck so we didn't double up on Dominants.  Instead of giving them all to one player like we did last year we split them between our decks.

I assumed that a lot of our opponents would be using the set-aside draw cards from Priests so we included Rain Becomes Dust.  RBD turned out to be one of the MVP's of our deck.  Several of our opponent's were discarding their set-aside draw enhancements instead of playing them.  In fact I don't think anyone used a single set-aside draw against us. 

We also had a brutal combo built into our decks.  With RBD active if we use OoN to choose Damsel with Spirit of Divination (the crazy chick) and reveal one of our 3 multi-color good enhancements, our opponent discards their top 8 cards. :)

Angel of the Lord
Guardian Of Your Souls
New Jerusalem
Son of God
Mayhem
Holy Grail
Lampstand of the Sanctuary
Temple Veil
The Bronze Laver
Captured Ark
Rain Becomes Dust
Philistine Outpost
The Gates of Hell
The Garden Tomb
Wall of Protection
Zerubbabel's Temple
Lost Soul (anti-burial)
Lost Soul (female only)
Lost Soul (N.T. only)
Lost Soul (revealer)
Lost Soul (shuffler)
Lost Soul (wanderer)
Lost Souls (2-line)
Jacob
Claudia
John
Ethiopian Treasurer
Captain of the Host
The Strong Angel
Mary the Mother of James
Salome
Lydia
Susanna
Philosophy
Preaching the Truth
Faith in Our High Priest
Obedience of Noah
Reach of Desperation
Authority of Christ
Consider the Lilies
“He Is Risen”
Damsel with Spirit of Divination
Philistine Garrison
The Twelve-Fingered Giant
Philistine Armor Bearer
Gomer
Seven Sons of Sceva
King of Tyrus
Prince of this World
Prince of the Air
Fallen Angel
Wandering Spirit
Bringing Fear
Land Dispute
Deafening Spirit
Worshipping Demons
Grapes of Wrath
Burial
Christian Martyr
Destruction of Nehushtan
Falling Away
Darius' Decree
Holy Grail
Temple Veil
The Bronze Laver
Captured Ark
Rain Becomes Dust
Philistine Outpost
The Gates of Hell
The Garden Tomb
The Tabernacle
Wall of Protection
Lost Soul (anti-burial)
Lost Soul (female only)
Lost Soul (N.T. only)
Lost Soul (revealer)
Lost Soul (shuffler)
Lost Soul (wanderer)
Lost Souls (2-line)
Jacob
Claudia
John
Ethiopian Treasurer
Captain of the Host
The Strong Angel
Mary the Mother of James
Salome
Lydia
Susanna
Philosophy
Preaching the Truth
Faith in Our High Priest
Obedience of Noah
Reach of Desperation
Authority of Christ
Consider the Lilies
“He Is Risen”
Damsel with Spirit of Divination
Philistine Garrison
The Twelve-Fingered Giant
Philistine Armor Bearer
Gomer
Seven Sons of Sceva
King of Tyrus
Prince of this World
Prince of the Air
Fallen Angel
Wandering Spirit
Bringing Fear
Land Dispute
Deafening Spirit
Worshipping Demons
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2010, 11:40:45 PM »
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First round we played the father/son duo of John and Jonathan Myers.  The son Jonathan was playing all defense but didn't draw what he needed to deal with a Jacob+Captain band.  John on the other hand was all offense with lots of great banding.  Unfortunately for him he didn't draw a way to deal with The Twelve Fingered Giant.  We won 5-0.

Second round we played Nathan Voigt and Chris Bany.  We all know each other really well.  Chris activated Three Nails during his intro prep phase.  Kevin got rid of their Philistine Outpost with Land Dispute so Chris changed his Artifact to Unholy Writ.  I think we were ahead 2 to 1 when Nathan decided to play his Mayhem.  He didn't realize that we had RBD active.  He and Chris both shuffled their hand to discard their top 6 cards while Kevin and I each drew a new hand.  We realized well after our game that RBD actually should not have effected Chris.  But after a 24 card swing our game ended quickly 5-1.

Third round we played Michael Leung/Brandon Abbott, two guys I got to know personally from Nationals 2009.  Brandon and I play online regularly and I've learned a healthy respect for his unconventional play style. ;)  Michael went first and rescued with Priests of Christ.  He used his Trumpet Blast to get rid of our Philistine Outpost and AotL to remove the Philistine Garrison I pulled out to block him so they jumped out to a quick 1-0 lead.  Brandon was using pale green and had most of their defense.  True to his nature he pulled off a couple blocks that I didn't see coming.  His FBTN banding offense even grabbed a Lost Soul from us.  Then, for the first time in the tournament we pulled off our combo with "the crazy chick".  Kevin chose Michael to pick on.  He hit some nice cards but didn't get any Dominants.  Michael discarded Jacob with CM.  Then on my next turn I drew my OoN so I also picked on Michael with our combo making it a total of 16 cards we took out of his deck!  This time we hit NJ so he played his SoG right away.  Later Brandon blocked Kevin and played Confusion.  Fortunately for us he chose Kevin's deck to search.  He didn't find SoG or NJ so he assumed Kevin was holding them.  When we got to 3 and Kevin didn't play the big two he figured out our deck building strategy but it was too late.  We ended up winning 5-3.

Round four was by far our toughest game.  Nick Archick/Ben Michaliszyn are skilled opponents.  They had a defense very similar to ours with both orange and Philistines.  There were a lot of great plays during the game which made it really intense.  I really can't remember them all.  There was a lot of exchanging with the Wanderer LS and the 2/3 Liners, up to 3 per turn at one point.  I had SoG/NJ early and used Lampstand to protect from a Mayhem that Nick announced he was holding.  Midway through the game we needed a blocker so I discarded to Gates but it took me a while to find anything which crippled my offense.  Eventually they used Captured Ark to remove Lampstand so I played the big 2 taking a shuffler.  Nick played his Mayhem trying to generate a LS.  Kevin ended up carrying our offense the rest of the game and won us our 5th soul at the time limit.  We squeezed out a 5-4 victory by the hair on our chinny-chin-chin.

We had first placed locked up at this point so we could relax a little in the 5th round which was nice considering how stressful the previous game was. :)  We were paired up with Jonathan Greeson/Christian Fong who had been timing out almost every round.  Jonathan had a 100 card orange defense and Christian has a "speed style" offense.  Jonathan's defense was going to be hard to get past so Kevin and I just waited patiently to get the cards we needed to break through.  Both teams played SoG/NJ and before we knew it we were almost out of time.  It was the last round of the game and I got the combo so I had Christian block with "the crazy chick".  We got his AotL and some other stuff.  He played Grapes to shuffle Jacob.  Since the score was only 2-2 I made another rescue.  I won a rescue against Jonathan making it 3-2 which was our final score.
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2010, 02:42:00 PM »
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Impressive decks, congrats on winning Teams.

More importantly, the combo you mentioned is pretty awesome, I never thought about abusing RBD that way. Hmmm...  ;)
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #3 on: August 16, 2010, 02:46:10 PM »
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yeah that was a pretty amazing game xD
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #4 on: August 16, 2010, 02:46:25 PM »
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the original combo used sabbath breaker, made notable by timmierz when he won nats.
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #5 on: August 16, 2010, 02:47:34 PM »
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really interesting decks. I would have been interested in seeing how it'd fare against a huge combo deck.

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #6 on: August 16, 2010, 02:48:03 PM »
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RBD = Mayhem killer. If you want to keep control of your hand, keep that up. I LOVE it.

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2010, 02:48:33 PM »
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the original combo used sabbath breaker, made notable by timmierz when he won nats.

Yeah, I had a deck based around that concept. But using Damsel with a multi-color in my hand never crossed my mind.
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #8 on: August 16, 2010, 09:48:59 PM »
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Awesome decks--congrats on your guys' winning!  :)
Did you ever run into problems with duplicate characters or was that a small sacrifice to make for the raw power?

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2010, 09:55:15 PM »
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This deck was a nightmare, I don't want to play them again, is just a fresh kill. LOL

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2010, 11:16:45 PM »
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Awesome decks--congrats on your guys' winning!  :)
Did you ever run into problems with duplicate characters or was that a small sacrifice to make for the raw power?

No, because in teams you don't share a territory.

This deck was a nightmare, I don't want to play them again, is just a fresh kill. LOL

You should feel blessed to be the only victim of the "double crazy chick combo"!  You're famous! :laugh:
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2010, 11:26:21 PM »
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Yeah,,,,,,,, Gabe, Jacob, Obedience of Noah on your Demsel with the Spirit of Devination, while Rain became Dust on me twice. That really stinks. Thank you.

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2010, 11:29:35 PM »
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with choose the blocker in teams, do you get to decide which player blocks?

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2010, 11:44:38 PM »
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with choose the blocker in teams, do you get to decide which player blocks?
Thats how we played it at nats...
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2010, 11:49:19 PM »
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Yeah, that damsel block was a neat idea.  very interesting!  That might make a good type 1 deck.
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #15 on: August 16, 2010, 11:57:17 PM »
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Yeah, that damsel block was a neat idea.  very interesting!  That might make a good type 1 deck.

I second that. Thanks.

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #16 on: August 19, 2010, 09:22:48 PM »
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Congrats guys.  Unfortunely the strategy that won MW Regionals for Mark and I, didn't work out so well for Ron and I at Nats.  We timed out every game, only loosing outright the first game and time out wining and loosing the rest.

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #17 on: August 19, 2010, 11:57:04 PM »
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Wow, and just for overkill with that brutal combo, throw Abom in... Really cool idea Gabe, I am surprised that no one came up with that before.
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #18 on: August 20, 2010, 12:22:42 AM »
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Throw Abomb in and you have to throw in Greeks, too much. But that combo has been around, they just implemented it.

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #19 on: August 20, 2010, 12:25:52 AM »
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Teams makes it easier to pull off since you have Obedience x2 and Damsel x2.

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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #20 on: August 20, 2010, 12:30:34 AM »
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Teams makes it easier to pull off since you have Obedience x2 and Damsel x2.

And RBD x 2 and you can band to your partner's ET to search out your Philosophy and play OoN.  ;D

Other people have told me that they tried CTB with the Damsel and RBD so I know it's not original, but I did come up with it independently and made it tournament viable.  It's really only a variation of the Sabbath Breaker+CTB+RBD combo that's been around for a few years.  Actually, that combo was in the original draft of the decks but got cut because it didn't flow well enough with everything else.
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Re: Nationals 2010 Teams Champion Decks
« Reply #21 on: August 20, 2010, 11:15:06 PM »
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claudia+et (philosophy) +OON choosing damsel with RBD active is sick butwas always hard for me to pull off everygame. It feels good everytime it happens though. :) real good. and to win on top of that! i know your stoked Gabe. good job buddy!

Teams makes it easier to pull off since you have Obedience x2 and Damsel x2.

And RBD x 2 and you can band to your partner's ET to search out your Philosophy and play OoN.  ;D

Other people have told me that they tried CTB with the Damsel and RBD so I know it's not original, but I did come up with it independently and made it tournament viable.  It's really only a variation of the Sabbath Breaker+CTB+RBD combo that's been around for a few years.  Actually, that combo was in the original draft of the decks but got cut because it didn't flow well enough with everything else.


Man, sounds like a type 2 players dream.
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