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If option 1 Paul forces people to only use OT souls that's awesome. They lose a lot of powerful abilties dominating the game right now. Plus you have to consider the player using Paul to also want to be able to use liner, DOU, and confusion.

MH is pretty obsolete as it is.

every card has a down side and this card isn't meant to solve all of the current metas problems,
Unlike the watchman currently winning in the other poll.

Really torn between 9 and 6. 6 would be good except almost all the relevant N.T. EEs are CBP anyway and there's no speed. 9 is much better but too unpopular to unseat 1 (which I have, upon further reading, realized is ridiculous wallbreaking for extreme aggro). Mayhem delenda est.

We already have Peter and Stephen. Paul would just extend the CBN to Mercy of James as far as interrupters go.

Quote from: Minister Polarius on October 21, 2016, 12:29:55 AM

Really torn between 9 and 6. 6 would be good except almost all the relevant N.T. EEs are CBP anyway and there's no speed. 9 is much better but too unpopular to unseat 1 (which I have, upon further reading, realized is ridiculous wallbreaking for extreme aggro). Mayhem delenda est.

6 over 9 any day. 6 may be boring, but it's better than 9's one-sidedness. Personally, I'd take a straight-up Strong Angel version of Paul that also draws 2 over all of the options that are winning or close, as long as it's not CB anything. Just - "If attacking alone, negate Enhancements and other characters. You may draw 2." As unexciting as that is in and of itself.

9 has been my vote since this thread was opened. It may be one sided, but doesn't that make sense for a character who went from zealous against Christ to zealous for Christ. The "draw 2" is also a nice touch to help Clay's speed level. 

9 has been my vote since this thread was opened. It may be one sided, but doesn't that make sense for a character who went from zealous against Christ to zealous for Christ. The "draw 2" is also a nice touch to help Clay's speed level.

i mean option 9 is the least conditional and most useful i can see.. the only reason i'm okay with 1 is if the territory class and negate neutral cards goes because that aspect is so self defeating(ie negating way too many useful things to be used against you). we really have to consider the rest of the meta here.. throne- draw heroes and draw abilities galore. judges- draw heroes galore. bom-draw galore. etc.. etc..

all of these have near no conditional restraint in terms of getting to the rest of a decks strategies by drawing+they do other things like auto protecting gideon or reviving joshua to get hit by joshua captain again while they have coliseum out xD

having a d2 for a clay guy who can be splashed is hardly unbalanced-balancing if anything, and making it non conditional is far more meta adjusting than only allowing it by constraint..

nt has 2 fbtn guys where ot has many. clement doesn't even see play. making paul a fbtn and draw guy at least somewhat balances the odds there..

now if you are Polarius who is set on making mayhem obsolete:

Paul -Territory Class
Missionary/Prophet
7/2 Green/Clay
Missionaries have Site Access. If an opponent's card targets your hand, you may draw one instead. If rescuing, search deck or discard pile for Miraculous Handkerchiefs. Cannot be negated

this is your candy. having played miraculous handkerchiefs at state and regionals this year, i can tell you it definitely is worth it and is a phenomenal card when you are playing pretty much anti meta clay against soul shuffling etc. this ability does in fact solve a lot of common problems and would make me want to def play hankies

In a perfect world no deck is in top cut more than once at the same time.

The reason I think we should be careful with making Paul generically powerful, especially with speed related abilities, is that clay already has a ton of extremely powerful tools, but several of the best are cornered into their own decks (Each church) to prevent an OP deck being built with the rest of each. Paul obviously can't be stuck into one church, and so a powerful Paul makes EVERY clay related deck more powerful. On top of this given he'll be green he could potentially end up in any number of other deck types. For example, a clay/green Paul could use every GE in Gabe's Nats winning deck and by providing another clay Hero, would open up the possibility of playing cards like Word of Christ. Clay/Green is one of most potentially dangerous brigade combos to add to the game and a lot of thought should go into making one, especially with anything speed related.

I like Guardian's suggestion and would gladly vote for it if it was an option. It fits thematically, it's unique, and most importantly, it forces the opponent to make more choices about their plays. This is one of the best things a card can do in a game and is exactly the kind of ability a card with potentially far reaching deck options should have. The only thing I would change about it is dropping the Cannot be Negated to prevent it being played in Moses decks.

Edit: Alternatively instead of removing CBN, adding "While all your Heros are NT" would solve the Moses deck issue.

Edit2: The draw instead should not be a may. Hand/deck protection is balanced because there are some cards that punish you for having a protected hand. An optional hand protection ability would be a little too good IMO.

I haven't paid much attention to Paul since Watchman won popular vote. But I did have a brainstorm in church yesterday :-)

Verse suggestion:
Philippians 3:8 (NIV84) "What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ."

I know it's too late, but here's a corresponding special ability:
"Remove all cards from your discard pile from the game. Ignore enhancements. If rescue attempt fails, remove all cards in opponent's discard pile from the game. "

L8er,
Gil

Interesting concept, but enhancements are not "ignorable" only characters can be ignored in the current mechanics of the game. 

Queen of Sheba's SA apparently ignores EE's

Old wording does not fall under "the current mechanics of the game." AFAIK, Queen of Sheba just negates those cards.

lol I get that. I thought it was funny that I found an example.

not to mention lemuel 

Hmm, totally forgot that Queen of Sheba negates Confusion...I kinda want to make a Purple Female deck now...

How many purple females are there? There can't be enough to make a whole deck out of them!

Edit: ok, i stand corrected. you CAN make a deck with mostly purple females. it's not the best deck, but it certainly can fit in with this current meta. Splashing them with 1 samuel/throne is pretty good.