Cactus Game Design Message Boards

The Lord’s People
7/7 Multicolor Hero
* Reserve a card from hand to draw 2.
SA TC: If a hero is banded into battle, they may play an enhancement. Limit twice per game.
Philemon 1:7

Good little speed ability for all decks and the TC ability is insanely useful and versatile, so I had to put a limit on it. Multi brigades so Babel can immediately negate them. I wanted to add more of a SA for in battle then realized you have a 7/7 multicolor hero, you don’t need anymore abilities.

Accountable through Christ
5/1 Clay GE
X = Philemon Heroes
SA: Discard up to X evil cards from hand. Opponent must do the same.
Philemon 1:8

I love this card. The concept is to keep one another accountable so you are discarding evil (getting rid of sin) and your opponent, your Brother in Christ, must do the same. Did clay just get some hand control!?

Basis of Love
0/4 Clay GE
SA: Negate an evil card in battle and draw 1. Your opponent may draw 3 and the evil enhancement played is tossed.
Philemon 1:9

So, this is a cool concept. You can define the basis of Love in all sorts of way, but you get to negate an evil card and still draw 1. You then get to allow your opponent to draw three, sharing is Love, and if they do draw 3, then their next enhancement is tossed.

Onesimus, the Useful
6/3 Clay hero
X= Philemon heroes
* Take a clay card from Reserve
SA: Increase a clay hero by X to draw X (Limit 3) and/or search for X clay enhancements or heroes.
Philemon 1:10

I figure he has a pretty useful ability and adds some more speed to clay, which it now needs due to all the other brigades having so many amazing star abilities.

Chains for the Gospel
4/2 Clay GE
SA TC: Set aside your clay hero. While set aside, if your clay hero is defeated by an opponent you may capture an evil character.
Philemon 1:13

This seems very strong with the adding into battle. They defeat you, you capture them, you add to battle, no one is in battle. But you have to sacrifice an enhancement, hero, and be defeated in battle, then have add to battle to make this really useful.

Voluntary Favor
0/0 Clay GE
SA: Interrupt the battle. Opponent may give you a good card from and you may play it in battle regardless of brigade. If opponent does not, end the battle.
Philemon 1:15

This is a nice trick because you can gain immediate initiative in this set through banding in your heroes. So the trick is to band in and play this and they have to give you something or you essentially win the battle, and off of Paul, in a band, it’s CBI.

No Longer a Slave
3/1 Clay GE
SA TC: Return all captured heroes to your territory. For each hero returned, you may draw 1. Place in territory, prevent evil capture abilities. If played in battle you may capture an evil character.
Philemon 1:16

Better than a Slave
2/4 Clay GE
* Reserve this card to take a card from reserve
SA TC: Place in territory. If an evil character is captured, take and convert them. They gain the ability, toss.
Philemon 1:16

I wanted to give this a new boost for opening/early hand, or even for mid to late game reserve switches to increase the overall playability in the card. You don’t have to rely on a captured EC to make this card work because you can just use it as an initial burst, and it’s got great versatility with the * ability. I will say this was geared more towards T2 because of being able to have multiples you can capture

Brother in the Lord
2/1 Clay GE
SA: Interrupt the battle and band in a clay hero.
5/5 Clay Hero
SA: If a clay enhancement is in play you may choose the blocker.
Philemon 1:16

Paul’s Writings
2/2 Clay Covenant
SA: Bounce all meek characters.
2/2 Clay GE
SA: Interrupt the battle. Toss the previous enhancement played or the next evil enhancement.
Philemon 1:19

I feel like Paul’s writings were used to guide and bring people back to the Word. For his writings I thought the idea of converting all meek characters to their “original form” would be a cool idea but not possible in Redemption lingo, so I just said, just bounce them all and now you can band in Paul for awesomeness against meek, or play clay/meek and constantly abuse meek abilities. It’s held in check because clay doesn’t have any meek so you would have to split your offense.