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Player: Brandon West

Well nationals was amazing. I got to play so many people and meet so many people that I had only met on the boards. Thank you Rob! 

Cards in Deck: 50

Lost Souls: 8
3-Line
Hopper
Anti-B
First Round Protect
Female Only
NT Only
Punisher
Shuffler

Dominants: 9
Angel of the Lord
Son of God (singed by Rob) 
New Jerusalem
Christian Martyr
Burial
Guardian
Destruction
Harvest Time
Falling Away

Curses: 2
Rain Becomes Dust
Captured Ark

Artifacts: 2
Unholy Writ
Gifts of the Magi

Sites: 1
Dragon Raid (never hit sites once, but I had it just in case)

Heroes: 12
Simeon
Moses
Etheopian Treasurer
Elijah
Jacob
Tribal Elder
Claudia
Joshua the High Priest
Phinehas, Son of Eleazar
Captain of the Host
Hur
Maharai

Good Enhancements: 12
First Fruits
Pentacost
Feast of Trumpets
Love at First Sight
Words of Encouragement
Transfiguration
Reach of Desperation
Authority of Christ
Book of Hozai
Abraham's Servent to Ur
Zeal for the Lord
Jehoida's Strength

Evil Characters: 4
Uzzah
The Amalekite's Slaves
King of Tyrus
Prince of this World


So yeah... it's speed. Nothing to explain there. Let me explain a few differences with most speed decks.

1. I have the anti-B, which is a typical no no in redemption multi. I put it in because I wanted to win FIRST. Yeah, it might help someone else, but if it can help me get souls, then It's in there.

2. No Lydia. I figured that I'd get enough cards to be able to use my white enhancements on Maharai. It ended up working, and I put in first fruits in it's place.

3. Rain becomes dust. Most people didn't use it (I was the only one in multi-player who had it in my deck). It ended up helping me a TON, to stop my opponent's from doing the exact same thing I was trying to do.

Other than that, it's generic. I was able to get souls fast and beat my opponent's, normally by only 1 turn.

lol this deck would eat it in Ohio.  we have way to much defense in our decks for this to do anything and since proff underwood plays a lot of fbtn, I get in a habit of playing with the CBP LS.  Not sure what the Anti -B LS is.  I have never heard of a LS called that before.  Four battle winners? (and that is counting Abes servant to Ur?) plus a captain band?  wow,  I just dont see how this deck won.

Well, I DO see how this deck won, but aside from the captain band, I dont see how it won. lol

Anti-burial. And I agree, how on earth could people not stop this? This deck winning shows how horrible type 1 multi can be. Under no circumstances should this deck win in a multiplayer setting. I guess CA doesn't like defense...at all. And it was guided by a skilled player.

When there's only 11 players in MP, it's unlikely there's going to be a huge variety of decks...

I do too. I don't understand all the banding though. more than half his deck gets decimated by HHI. How that survived, I don't know.

This deck winning shows how horrible type 1 multi can be.

Not really, it just shows nobody prepped for this event at all. Epic Fail to all you that played in this category.

lol losers

It hasn't had much of a chance. I think you all gave up too easily on type 1 multi, it's one of the most exciting categories out there. People don't want to give it a second chance for a number of different reasons including the newbyness of it.

My last National outing I seem to recall a number of games including my final round to go down to the wire. And had I not had I not had that one last turn I would've tied or even lost. And at pretty much every table, especially the top table I had to face numerous defenses that included a stout black, pale green, splash stand alone, and I think I remember playing brown or crimson as well. I was surprised to see people playing many thick well rounded defenses. You didn't face any of them Proff Underwood, or at least recall some of them? I think everyone's perception of type 1 multi is somewhat skewed. All they see is the first and second place deck the past few years as being speed, and they'd be right, but what they fail to realize is that many decks there are completely balanced complete with good defenses. It's not as lopsided as the world thinks, it's much more balanced. I don't think it's so much speed as it is the players and who pilots what deck. The one thing that is lopsided in any multi player game is when 3 people play all their doms on one player, aka ganging up. lol

Haha, I knew I'd here the "only 11 people."

Jehoida's strength is definitely a battle winner. Band in Moses and still be able to play and you're good.

Here's how most rounds turned out:

Turn 1: I get a band and it's almost impossible to stop on the first turn.
Turn 2: Play Zeal or something else.
Turn 3: Who's been giving out souls? Play some lost soul generator and go in with a band.

The band does not win... the band stops people from ganging up. If someone has defense, two writs and two cms can still stop you. But if you have 4-6 guys in battle, If I can get past the defense teaming up can almost never stop me. I knew that with 4 rounds and 11 people, I'd need to stop teaming up at all costs if I wanted to place.

And why isn't anyone counting aotl as a battle winner? I'm pretty sure that won me the game every time.

I am talking enhancemetnts not doms.  Those are like the unspoken "you" in "Get Outta here!  How did this Deck Win?!?!?"  

I can't bring myself to support teams until it has something to run against and until Rob would be willing to run a 4th day of Nats (or at least run a teams event post BD/multi on Sat, which I don't think he is willing to do)

tas...fail. you have only one other ec to search out with it.

What, Slaves? If I use slaves I don't plan on blocking. 

Oh. I'm not trying to bring it into the realm of I can beat him. I've played him; I know he's good. I'm just calling into question how this deck in particular won 4 straight games. I'm calling into question why not a single person ran a HHI or anything? I find that odd. Props to West though of course.

And I liked your bellybutton quote. That's a good one.