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So I have been working on this list for a couple weeks and still have a lot more to come.  My grand idea for this would be to create a full deck which is more like the contender decks/advanced decks that are currently sold and/or talked about in place of a starter deck.  I hope to put together a similar list of ideas for Ezekiel and the Gospel of John.  One aspect of these decks would be that all reprinted cards have borderless artwork as an incentive.  Please comment!

Below is the theoretical deck list (still incomplete, just putting what I have so far as I haven't gotten all of my ideas out of my head yet). Cards in Green are already printed so would be a reprint.

Lost Souls (7)
Covenant Breakers
Covenant Violators
Law Breakers - Male
Law Breakers - Female
Shameful
Rebel
Wickedness

Dominants (5)
Angry Decree
The Babylonian Exile
Revealer of Mysteries
Eternal Dominion
Son of God (The Deliverer)

Artifacts (2)
Darius' Decree
Darius' Signet Ring

Cities/Sites/Fortresses (7)
Babylon
Babylonian Banquet Hall
The Plain of Dura
Lions' Den
Fiery Furnace
Babylonian Temple
Royal Palace

Heroes (8 )
Daniel
Rack
Shack
Benny
The Foretelling Angel
Gabriel
Michael
Guardian in the Furnace

Good Enhancements (7)
Babylonian Training
Mystery Revealed
No Need for Defense
No Other
Promotion
Stone Cut without Hands
Undefiled

Evil Characters (6)
Nebuchadnezzar
Babylonian Advisers
Babylonian Nobles
Babylonian Soldiers
King Belshazzar
Belshazzar's Mother

Evil Enhancements (5)
Drunken Praise
Writing Fulfilled
Cut Off
Belshazzar's Banquet
Thrown to the Beasts

Dual Alignment Enhancements (2)
False Accusation
Cast into Lion's Den

Reserve (10)
The Image of Gold
Persian Administrator
Persian Administrator
Persian Satraps
Persian Satraps
King Darius, the Mede
Lions
The Bear
Prince of Persia
The Ram with Two Horns (would hope to update this to be able to use Persian instead of Media)

The Babylonian Exile
Daniel 1:2
Evil Dominant
Negate Lost Souls. Take and play all Lost Souls and Sites from deck. Place in territory for 7 turns: Protect Lost Souls in Sites and captured cards from opponents (except Heroes).
Identifier: Unity: All cards (Daniel reference)

Angry Decree
Daniel 2:12
Evil Dominant
Discard all evil humans with more than one brigade. Top deck them instead if Daniel is in play.

Revealer of Mysteries
Daniel 2:28
Good Dominant
Return to owner’s territory all humans that were discarded this turn and protect them from discard until end of turn.  You may look at opponent’s artifact pile, reserve, hand or deck (return without shuffling).

Eternal Dominion
Daniel 4:35
Good Dominant
Banish this card to play any number of good enhancements this turn regardless of restrict or protect abilities on evil or neutral cards.

The Image of Gold
Daniel 3:1
Artifact
Restrict all players from playing good offerings, good territory class enhancements and good Dominants.
Identifier: Depicts an Idol

Darius’ Signet Ring
Artifact
When you play an Enhancement, you may discard this card to add “cannot be negated” to that Enhancement.  You may activate this on King Darius, the Mede.

Gabriel , 10/10 Silver Hero
Daniel 9:21
Territory Class
When Daniel enters battle, you may underdeck an evil card from your territory.  If you do, opponent must underdeck a card from their territory as well.

Guardian in the Furnace, 0/3 Silver Hero
Daniel 3:25
Territory Class
If a Daniel Hero would be discarded or captured, you may interrupt the battle and band this Hero into battle to protect all Daniel Heroes from discard or capture.  Cannot be negated.
Special Note: I would like the art for this card to be Justin Alstad taking the place of Elmo from the flaming Elmo gif.

Michael, 12/7 Silver Hero, Territory Class
Daniel 10:13
If a silver prophet is alone in battle, you may interrupt the battle, set aside that Hero and add Michael to battle to negate an evil card.  Continue battle as a battle challenge.  Once battle challenge is complete, original Hero returns to battle as a rescue attempt.
Identifier: Limit once per game

Babylonian Advisers, 4/4 Crimson Evil Character
Daniel 4:36
If your Nebuchadnezzar is in your discard pile or being controlled by an opponent, you may return him to your territory as a white/purple hero.  May band to Babylonian Nobles.

Babylonian Nobles, 4/4 Crimson Evil Character
Daniel 4:36
If Nebuchadnezzar is a Hero, you may convert any number of your generic Babylonians to white heroes after battle.  May band to Babylonian Advisors.

Persian Administrator (Artwork 1)
1/3 Brown Evil Character
May band to a Daniel human Persian (except warrior class).  If you do, convert a king to a brown evil character until end of turn.
Identifier: Unique

Persian Administrator (Artwork 2)
1/3 Brown Evil Character
May band to a Daniel human Persian (except warrior class).  If you do, capture a human Hero in a territory (or Daniel if he is in battle).
Identifier: Unique

Persian Satraps (Artwork 1)
1/* Brown Evil Character
May band to a generic Persian.  Take a Daniel Artifact from deck or Reserve.
Identifier: *=# of Persians in play, generic

Persian Satraps (Artwork 2)
1/* Brown Evil Character
May band to a generic Persian.  If you do you may take and add King Darius, the Mede to battle from deck or Reserve.
Identifier: * = # of Persians in play, generic

I like the theme element for expanding Daniel cards.
There is already a LS that goes by Shame. It is the RoA, Jeremiah 3:25 "When you draw this card, you may set aside a Hero from each territory for two turns."  if my memory is correct, which it could be faulty.

If the Rebel LS is the only LS in an opponents LoB and I RA for it, it will be topdecked?

Lost Soul (Rebel)
Daniel 9:5
If this Lost Soul is targeted by a card (except a good Dominant), top deck it instead.

Godspeed,
Mike

In that case maybe "If targeted by a special ability" instead of "a card"?

Covenant Violators is absolutely bonkers.
How exactly does Temple work? Just sort of store them until it gets removed? As it stands if it's discarded all the arts follow - is that intended?

Currently, I think the Unity on Bab Exile would require you to reveal your entire deck and go through each card to prove you meet it. Maybe if something like that's printed you could get the deck checker at a tournament to give you a note to say "yes, I meet it" to save that time Also, I think protecting the soul from opponents stops them from rescuing it, so unless they have a way to get rid of sites they're just locked out for seven turns, which is shorter than the average T1 game.

For Bab Training, I don't think enhancements usually have nationality identifiers. Perhaps a crimson and/or evil Daniel enhancement instead?

Lots of cool ideas here!

I like the idea behind Babylonian Exile. Here is how I would word it to make it shorter and a little more functional.

The Babylonian Exile
Daniel 1:2
Evil Dominant
Negate Lost Souls. Take and play all Lost Souls and Sites from deck. Place in territory for 7 turns: Protect Lost Souls in Sites and captured cards from opponents (except Heroes).
Identifier: Unity: All cards (Daniel reference)

So one of the things I've been looking to do is find a scripture from Daniel that would fit as a Son of God card or something that makes sense to rescue a Lost Soul.  The closest thing I can come up with is from Daniel chapter 12 since it talks a lot about the end times and how people will be delivered, purified, etc...  It may be stretching it and I'm not super familiar with the theology of the apocalyptic literature but I think it may work.  Key parts of chapter 12 are below.

1b But at that time your people—everyone whose name is found written in the book—will be delivered.
2  Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake: some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 Those who are wise[a] will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
10 Many will be purified, made spotless and refined, but the wicked will continue to be wicked. None of the wicked will understand, but those who are wise will understand.
13 “As for you, go your way till the end. You will rest, and then at the end of the days you will rise to receive your allotted inheritance.”

Son of God (The Deliverer)
Good Dominant
Rescue your human Hero

I named it Son of God so that there wouldn't be a way to have 2 SoG like cards and also would not need to put a ridiculous identifier on the card that references both SoG and Chariot.  The Deliverer comes from verse 1 of chapter 12, "...will be delivered."  I contemplated not having 'your' in the special ability but instead having it say, 'rescue a human hero in a territory' but I figured that would be way too strong to not only get a redeemed soul but also take a hero from your opponent (or have 1 person in multiplayer get all their heroes redeemed)