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2012 T1-2P 3rd Place
« on: August 05, 2012, 07:34:46 PM »
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Builder: Kirk Dennison
Player: Jonathan Greeson

I never used to share many tournament decks with the Redemption community as I felt it weakened my competitive edge at tournaments. However, I realize that many players can potentially benefit from seeing decks I have created. Plus as I will not be able to make nationals this deck may not be very good next year anyways, so I may as well post it now so someone or multiple someones can use it at Nationals if they choose.  :)

Record: 24-2 in tournament and ROOT play, winning ROOT one month, taking 2nd in another, winning 3 locals and a district. The deck was at 56 cards with one less LS and Burial in the deck before the dominant cap changes in March. The deck was 22-1 prior to calendar year 2012 but I stopped playing once 2012 hit besides one district in March right after the rule changes where this deck went 2-1.

Cards in deck: 57
Lost Souls: 9
   Lost Soul (shut door)
   Lost Soul (shame)
   Lost Soul (Female Only)
   Lost Soul (hopper)
   Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   Lost Soul (revealer)
   Lost Soul (shuffler)
   Lost Soul (Wanderer)
   Lost Souls (2-line)

Dominants: 8
   Angel of the Lord
   Grapes of Wrath
   Guardian Of Your Souls
   New Jerusalem
   Son of God
   Christian Martyr
   Destruction of Nehushtan
   Mayhem

Sites: 1
   Nazareth

Artifacts/Covenants/Curses: 5
   Holy Grail
   Magic Charms
   Unholy Writ
   Covenant With Death
   Rain Becomes Dust

Heroes: 10
   Angel with the Secret Name (2012)
   The Angel Under the Oak
   Deborah
   Ehud (RoA)
   Gideon
   Jair (2012)
   Moses (wa)
   Samuel (2012)
   Aaron (Di)
   Hosea (2012)

Hero Enhancements: 9
   Battle Prayer (wa)
   Deborah's Directive
   Ehud's Dagger (RoA)
   Samson's Sacrifice
   Samuel's Edict
   Sword against Sword
   Provisions
   Habakkuk Stands Watch
   Wheel within a Wheel (2012)

Evil Characters: 9
   Assyrian Archer
   Assyrian Siege Army
   Assyrian Survivor
   Astrologers (TxP)
   Balaam (Di)
   Damsel with Spirit of Divination (TxP)
   Egyptian Magicians
   King Manasseh (Di)
   The Amalekite's Slave

Evil Enhancements: 6
   Invoking Terror
   Achan's Sin
   Confusion
   Death of Unrighteous
   Forgotten History
   Two Thousand Horses
« Last Edit: November 24, 2012, 10:46:14 AM by Gabe »
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Re: 2012 T1-2P 3rd Place
« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2012, 07:35:07 PM »
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Commentary:

I was not able to make nationals last year but I moved to WI and had a lot of free time on my hands in August/September and began heavily delving into making decks with the new cards.. The first version of the defense was paired with a Blue Genesis offense and only had one Assyrian (Survivor) but Polarius pointed out that my defense had more strength with ASA and A Archer and that it had more synergy with Judges. I made the first draft of this deck 2 weeks after nationals so I believe I am one of the first players to construct a Judges and Magician/Assyrian deck.

After a few games with 7 judges (one of those Samuel) and Aaron as a 2nd prophet (alongside Samuel), I realized that Hosea would be a tremendous addition to the deck especially as I had 3 banding ECs that could be used as fodder for him. Plus it gave me more options to play Wheel on and get my offense sooner.

This deck was fairly quick. Although it was outsped by Egyptian defenses and pure Samuel decks, I never once lost to any of those decks.

This was one of my most fun decks to play with ever in T1 2p. Some of my MVPs:
Invoking Terror - I was able to play it 4 times in some games much to the dismay of my opponent.
Balaam - Best character to block Susanna. Their only respite was AotL/Grapes/FioHP. I played RBD out of my d/c pile so many games for a 7/12 EC to keep stalling near the end of games.
Habakkuk Stands Watch - This was one of the sneaky cards no one expected to hit play. Won many a rescue based on that.

Next 5 cards in: (no particular order)
Judge's Seat - early versions of the deck had this card. I usually abide by the principle that if I don't use a card in 1/3 games then I should probably look for a stronger card. I rarely found the card helpful more than reducing my deck by 1 card via Jair pulling it. And since Jair can d2 anyways, I realized that I would rather have any 2 cards in many more situations than I wanted J's Seat. Against large defenses it can be a helpful card but I found that my deck had several tricks up its sleeve anyways.
Divination - I love this card as I can stall my opponent by playing it right after DoU and hiding souls that might have surfaced. However I did not use it as often as other cards to merit its use.
Dragon Raid - I know this is a gamble not running an access site but I faced very few site decks. The only real decks that had sites other than a Hormah splash were Samaria decks so I knew that Nazareth would give me access along with my 3 green heroes. I initially decked Nazareth and Dragon Raid. I switched DR out for Habakkuk Stands Watch as that card would give me access for a turn but would also serve as a battle winner. With Hopper, TAS, A Survivor, and Hosea I felt confident I could produce enough lost souls that my opponent couldn't site before I could have a chance at them. Also I had Grail to make a hero of any brigade with AotL and Provisions to support a hero of any color. And Samson's Sacrifice could be used in a pinch for access. I never once lost to a deck with sites after making the switch from Dragon Raid to Habbakuk Stands Watch. I was able to use it as a battle winner on 2/3 of games on Hosea/Aaron when my opponent figured I was bluffing on a RA and had nothing to play. :)
King David - This deck's only challenge was Samaria defenses that got set up very early and I felt King David would be a way to bypass most of their ECs as Hosea could snipe Gomer and Uzzah would kill himself. I do not see many non-royalty brown ECs in decks this year. I would plan to speed my deck up a card with him and band him in off Deb's Directive if needed but he kept coming in and out of the deck.
Obadiah's Caves - A few games my win was delayed a turn or two by a pesky Writ or Charms that I had to get past. In those games, either Gideon was captured earlier or I didn't have Oak yet so I had to go with Aaron/Moses. Caves would have allowed for others to get past capture.

First card to come out:
Nazareth - Naz gave me flexibility to slow down decks that relied on searching and helped against Captured Ark and Mayhem more times than I can count. I played it a few games before I did my own searches because I was worried of my opponents' Sam deck. Some games I discarded Nazareth because I wanted to search myself still.

God bless,
Kirk
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Re: 2012 T1-2P 3rd Place
« Reply #2 on: August 05, 2012, 07:48:09 PM »
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Would you say habbakuk stands watch would be a card that truly helps this offense?
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Re: 2012 T1-2P 3rd Place
« Reply #3 on: August 05, 2012, 08:20:29 PM »
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Looks like a solid deck! How did Achan's Sin work out? With so many interrupts and CBN battle winners in top decks, it doesn't seem like it would have done much.
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Re: 2012 T1-2P 3rd Place
« Reply #4 on: August 06, 2012, 12:12:54 AM »
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Red,

Great question. I replaced Dragon Raid with Habakkuk Stands Watch. With that in mind I felt that I wanted to devote a card that would grant me access against site decks but wouldn't be completely useless against non-site decks. Habakkuk Stands allowed me to do that. I used it to gain access to a site in 2 or 3 games, as a battle winner in 2 or 3, and to remove an EC from territory in 1 or 2.

It is not necessary, but I definitely thought back to Jonathan Greeson's use of the card for Nats 10 when he won and found it such a great utility card. If I wasn't using 3 people to play it I would cut it.

Red Wing,

Great question. I also wondered the same thing early on. What I found out was that it still had its time and place. It is naturally effective against banding chains and I was able to remove Phillip/Bart bands on a few occasions and TGT bands as well. The best was against Hezekiah to Isaiah, which removed Isaiah for the game. I actually used it to win Lost Souls for me in 1/3 of games by going with Ehud and choosing a large EC and playing Sword Against Sword, followed by Confusion + DoU or Achan's Sin.

Also, on Survivor some opponents cannot stop it based on their enhancement being discard.

There is probably another enhancement that would do well but I can't think what that would be.

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