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This is my first time posting actual cards so I hope this works.  I have created several cards to try to buff up the Persian defense theme with several more characters, a couple of enhancements, and reprinting the Persian sites.  I don't know how to do the hover to reveal thing so if anyone wants to help me do that to make this post shorter, please let me know.



King Darius is supposed to be a choice between Hero and Evil Character, but I am using the card creater posted on these boards and it doesn't allow for that option, and I don't know how to change that.













I'm not sure if you are able to have sites with the same name but one with ability and another without or not.  But if you are, I hope these sites can help give some territory protection as well as some other aid for the theme that they have.  Persians seem to have a set-aside and capture theme, so I tried to run with that.  Thoughts?

Good ideas. They all pretty much make sense.

I read the rest of the cards and I actually thought the same thing as Redoubter with Work Stopped after I read it. I feel proud of myself for catching that even though I wasn't the first.

However, I don't think that Artaxerxes would be all that great in splash decks. There's Suzie, Benjamin, Joel and the less-commonly used Jeiel and Naharai who would ask get initiative among with kings with the Throne of David. In my mind he wouldn't really merit a spot. Sure, he'd usually get initiative but he'd also usually kill himself after battle. I dunno. I just think there's be more useful ECs to use.

Personally Lion's Den needs to be changed. If we go by Biblical accuracy, Daniel was protected not the Persians. The Persians were the ones cast into the Lion's Den after Daniel and they were not protected and eaten.

What about Lion's Den: Discard Lions den, and 2 generic persians to search your discard pile for a OT not warrior class hero and shuffle all lost souls in your land of bondage into owners decks?

Would that be good?

That'd be almost completely useless considering that there's only one generic Persian and it's the best Persian in the game.

If Artixerxes is supposed to be from the Ezra/Nehemiah story, then his effect doesn't follow the story at all. As the people who contacted him were not Persians, but other civilizations that were in the area.

Also Lions Den should be both a Persian and Babylonian Site (as it was in Babylon) and I would change the Discard to release the Captured Character there if King Darius and/or an Angel is in play.

Also Media is its own country that worked with the Persians not exactly the same thing...

But I like the cards though. Very cool!

Why not use something like Persian Gates or something like that.