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The Lord is With Us
Good Dominant
"Negate evil protect abilities this turn. Your good Enhancements are treated as having "regardless of protection" this turn."
~Numbers 14:9

Heal Every Sickness
Good Dominant
"Negate and discard all decrease, poison, and disease cards. Heal all characters and return them to printed abilities (*/*)."
~Matthew 9:35




I feel like The Lord is With Us might be overpowered, but I couldn't think of any other way to get around CBN protection. It used to say good cards but I changed it to enhancements in an effort to reduce the power a little.

The only way TLiWU wouldn't be OPd is if it negated Play abilities as well (so that ET+AoCP wouldn't go back to being an every deck play). If it had that provision, it would only be useful for a handful of niche situations, and thus wouldn't be chosen over other doms in most decks.

Unfortunately, HES would never see play in T1 in the current meta. There is just no way that someone could justify a dom slot for a card with relatively little impact.

I think that it would still negate protect forts,  leading back to the Prof's worries.

Updated "The Lord is With Us" and changed the "regardless" portion of the ability to add a sort of condition to it.

Not sure if this is enough to balance it.

If someone has an alternative way to get around CBN protection besides adding "regardless of protection" please feel free to offer it as that's the only reason it's in the ability, lol.

I guess I'm just not really sure why negating protect forts for one turn is really so bad. Most offenses don't even have a protect fort so the likes of Wrath of Satan can easily wreck them even without the help of a dominant, so why is it so bad to negate a protect fort for a single turn? You still have to have an enhancement to play after playing the dominant, and it's not really affecting the battle anymore than that enhancement normally would (since protect forts don't usually protect in battle anyway) unless the character has a built-in protect (which is what this was designed to get around; Foreign Wives, etc.).

ET + AoCP is always going to be a good combo, yet you don't see it in every deck now. I don't think this dominant would suddenly cause everyone to start using it even if it doesn't negate play abilities. At least not in Type 1. I haven't played T2 enough to really speak on that, though since Dominants are still limited to 1 there as well it would still only be usable for one turn per game.

I know I'm usually the one rallying for more power to defenses, but in this case I don't see the issue. Unless I'm missing something obvious?

I suppose you're right. It was mostly an idea to use the verse I read, I'm not heart-set on it, haha.

Make TLiWU say "Your good enhancements gain the ability "Regardless of protection" when targeting evil cards in battle".  Which is basically a counter to FW...  Which I'm not sure needs counters yet.