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Tamar
Type: Hero
Brigade: Blue/White
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: If Tamar is discarded in battle by a Male Human, instead heal her and convert her to that Human's brigade. After battle discard a Male Human in a territory. Cannot be Interrupted by a male.
Identifiers: Female, Human, Widow, Harlot
Verse: Genesis 38:6

Covenant with Widows
Type: Covenant
Brigade: White
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: While in play, you may redirect any evil Poisons, Diseases, or Discard abilities targeting your Widows to a Male in a territory. May be used twice.
Identifiers: Law
Verse: Exodus 22:22

Forgotten Sheaf
Type: Good Enhancement
Class: Territory
Brigade: White
Ability: None
Special Ability: Place on a male hero in your territory. That male may not enter battle until this card is removed. If your widow or orphan would be targeted by an evil card, you may discard this card to return them to your territory instead.
Identifiers: Law, Food
Verse: Deuteronomy 24:19

Olive Tree
Type: Fortress
Special Ability: Set this aside. During battle you may discard a white bible icon from hand to heal all widows and orphans in play. Whenever a widow makes a successful rescue attempt, you may shuffle one OT white bible icon from your discard pile into your draw pile.
Identifiers: Law
Verse: Deuteronomy 24:20

Grapes
Type: Good Enhancement
Brigade: White
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: Interrupt evil immune and repel abilities, Reveal the top three cards of any draw pile. Widows and orphans ignore all evil brigades revealed. If no evil cards were revealed, you may draw a card and band to a female hero.
Identifiers: Food, Law
Verse: Deuteronomy 24:21

Tithe to the Widow
Type: Enhancement
Brigade: White
Ability: 1/10
Special Ability: Interrupt the battle and take one good enhancement from opponent's discard pile into hand. If used by a widow, play it regardless of brigade and withdraw all heroes in battle.
Identifiers: Law
Verse: Deuteronomy 26:13

Perverting of Judgment
Type: Curse
Brigade: Grey
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: While your male evil character is blocking, you may discard this card and all evil cards in battle to protect lost souls from being rescued by female heroes.
Verse: Deuteronomy 27:19

Tekoan Woman (reprint)
Type: Hero
Brigade: White
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: Protect this hero and widows from capture. If blocked by a king, force two male evil characters in a territory to fight each other. Cannot be interrupted.
Identifiers: Female, Human
Verse: 2 Samuel 14:2

Hiram of Tyre
Type: Hero
Brigade: White
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: Once per game, if a good temple is in play, you may negate and deactivate all active artifacts in play to search deck for an old testament artifact and activate it.
Identifiers: Male, Human, Orphan
Verse: 1 Kings 7:13

Widow of Zarephath
Type: Hero
Brigade: White
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: You may search discard pile for a white food and add it to hand to prevent the special ability of the next enhancement opponent plays. If you do not have a good prophet in play, discard this hero after battle.
Identifiers: Human, Female, Widow
Verse: 1 Kings 17:12

Widow's Bread and Oil
Type: Good Enhancement
Brigade: White
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: Interrupt the battle and return all cards in battle to owners' hand(s), except this one. If a good prophet is in play, you may begin a new battle. Otherwise, protect all cards in your hand from being played until end of turn.
Identifiers: Food
Verse: 1 Kings 17:14

Hopeless Meal
Type: Evil Enhancement
Brigade: Grey
Ability: None
Special Ability: Discard all cards in battle. Cannot be negated if a widow is in battle.
Identifiers: Food
Verse: 1 Kings 17:12

Orphan of Zarephath
Type: Hero
Brigade: White
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: May band to a widow. The first time this hero loses a battle, instead return him to owner's territory and increase him by 3/3.
Identifiers: Human, Male, Orphan, Child
Verse: 1 Kings 17:22

Prophet's Widow (reprint of Widow)
Type: Hero
Brigade: White
Ability: 3/3
Special Ability: If a male prophet is in your discard pile, hero ignores evil characters */8 or greater.
Identifiers: Human, Female, Widow
Verse: 2 Kings 4:1

Prophet's Orphans
Type: Hero
Brigade: White
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: May band to a widow to prevent evil search and draw abilities.
Identifiers: Human, Male, Orphan
Verse: 2 Kings 4:1

Sent Away
Type: Evil Enhancement
Brigade: Brown
Ability: 2/2
Special Ability: Ignore female heroes. All female heroes currently in battle must withdraw. Cannot be interupted by a female.
Verse: Job 22:9

TLDR. Not enough pizazz in the SA's, just a bunch of dumping on Males.

Tamar: Idk about having someone like that as a Hero. Rahab is an exception because she gave that up pretty soon after she's introduced, and that's not what she's known for.

Covenant with Widows should be worded as an "instead" so that it stops CM.

Forgotten Sheaf is OP.

Olive Tree is solid, though I worry about recycling AoCP too much with LCF or MaE.

Grapes is pretty cool, but I don't see it being used due to the fact that NNfS is just a better card. Perhaps if it also Discarded the Evil cards?

Tithe to the Widow, I don't like any ITB battle-winner, especially since it can fetch Zeal or AoCP and be CBN to boot.

Perverting of Judgment is too narrow to be usable.

I really like Tekoan Woman, the first one that gets my attention, but needs CBI so that it works with KoT and Assyrian Kings with their Art up.

Hiram is a lot on the powerful side, tutor an O.T. Art, activate it, and stop all Arts in play at no cost is too much. Especially since Speed can use that to get in Mayhem, FA, etc. on a Lampstand easily.

Widow of Z I hate. PBI is not good, even if it's luck based, especially if it actually punishes mono-Brigades.

Widow's Bread and Oil is just WAY OP, especially with Widow of Z.

Hopeless Meal is ok, but it really should be all characters, especially if you're going to give it a CBN that can be triggered by your own cards.

Orphan of Z is solid theme-fodder.

Ditto Prophet's Orphans.

Sent Away is too limited. Give it some more teeth somehow.

Widow's Ox is solid.

Widow's Joy is good, although it should have TC and an "if Rescuing" clause on the adding to battle to make it usable.

Priest's Widows is solid, but could use more defense to not get slaughtered by FbtN.

Slay the Widow is far too limited to ever be useful.

Widow of the Wicked is ok.

Orphans of the Wicked should be genderless, and it's ok.

Daughter of the Chaldeans, I don't like the intense luck factor, and I also don't like a CBN standalone stopper even with the luck factor.

Basically, these cards are solid, but not much really grabs my attention. They don't really do anything too terribly useful that another theme doesn't do better, I can't see them being used (unless the uber OP cards get made), and there's just a general lack of flair imo. Good ideas, just missing something.

i think all of them are pretty cool! i'd definitely add these to my female deck

These are nice not very op'd cards.
good job.