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I think that nothing better could happen to the game than to have other competitive themes.  I'm sure someone is going to post that it must draw the same as the other themes currently at the top to be competitive, but I disagree and hope that something could be made FUN and still powerful.

As far as the card you posted, I think it is actually very interesting.  Not quite sure it's OP, as you'd still have to play a separate draw ability to get the card you placed (if it goes to the top) before your opponent played any of a myriad of deck-discard abilities.  If it goes to bottom, that of course helps certain defenses (Demons with GoH or Magicians with...a lot of cards).  Have to think about it and try to break the game with it, but I think it's definitely a start

(take that with a grain of salt, Bret will look for ANY reason he can find to use demons  )

I also think we need reprints of Shadrach, Meshach, maybe Abednego, and Watcher, as well as some new Daniel enhancements. I'm currently researching and thinking up ideas for some of those. With just that much, I think Daniel could be well on its way to playability.

I made a Watcher not too long ago, I know it's on my thread and the Feb submissions. I was going to start a theme that plays off that, but I moved on.

I think the biggest problem is there are virtually no useful white enhancements for the Daniel Heroes; I really have no problems with the heroes the way they stand, but they have nothing that TGT can't do 9001% better.

As for the Foretelling Angel, I think it's a bit too much to be able to put any card you want on top or bottom, I would rather have it be like a Susanna, where you look at the top X (X = # of your Daniel Heroes) and pick one, but that's not very creative, and I'd like to see a creative Daniel theme. As an aside, I was going to do a reprint of Foretelling Angel with my Watcher reprint, but I couldn't find the original picture for it so I gave up (if they do a FA reprint, they better have the same picture, because it's awesome). 

Maybe an "except dominants" is needed though...

Just realize that would mean you would have to reveal, since it would not just by 'a card'

As to the part about TGT, I think any enhancements you make should start with "If used by an OT hero..." or better yet "If all of your heroes are OT...".  That would stop the good ones from just ending up in a TGT deck, and give it a unique flair

Here's one of my Daniel ideas.

Should be Half white.

Those cards look straight awesome.

Red Wing, that looks really OP and pretty generic. I'd give suggestions, but I'm a little burned out now since my last big update.

Daniel heroes don't have any CBN/CBI ways to win battles. Until they do, Daniel won't be a strong theme. And how is it Generic? 

How's this?

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EDIT - I changed Stone and added another one - EDIT

Stone Cut without Hands needs a place ability to function as intended. I'd also make it half-green and "If used by a Prophet" rather than by Daniel.

I was thinking of just dropping the 1st part altogether to cut down on wording (it would be 7 lines of text with the place ability). That way you can't just throw Danny + this into a TGT deck to get rid of an evil card for free. Might add a "Limit 1 per territory" identifier also...

It's UP for T1, but I think it'll find it's niche in T2.

Yeah, a Daniel theme as suggested would be T1 only because of the bi-colored cards. I'm cool with having some T1 only themes and some T2 only themes (Heretics, I'm looking at you).

Stone: On second thought, this does seem a bit powerful. I was thinking it might not get much use, but now that I think about it, it probably will, especially with Watcher as-is. I definitely don't like the soul lock part of it. I think I would reword it to say "evil card" and/or "not in battle" to limit it a bit. (Imagine blocking with Complainers.) Also, a 1 per territory limit.

Interpretation: I like the idea, but I'm not sure about the "discard it" part.