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Title: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: Isildur on January 30, 2010, 08:22:07 PM
Well today I decided to waltz in a tourney with a deck that used only Apostles cards and older (It used to be Warriors and older but I thought using Goys would make it a billion times more competitive.) I did this because I was too lazy to make anouther deck. I was expecting to go about 1 and 4 but in the end get some mass lawls. Well by the end of the tourney I had gotten Third in type 1 2 player and was about 5 and 1. I got more then my moneys worth of mass lawls from that tourney. Btw it was a Red/Purple and Grey/Black deck. Old school fun right there 8)
Title: Re: Retro Redemption Live on!
Post by: YourMathTeacher on January 30, 2010, 09:44:43 PM


                              Long Live Old School!
Title: Re: Retro Redemption Live on!
Post by: Lamborghini_diablo on January 30, 2010, 11:16:43 PM
I saw Redemption Live and I got excited... then I read the post and I was sad.  :'(
Title: Re: Retro Redemption Live on!
Post by: browarod on January 30, 2010, 11:20:31 PM
I saw Redemption Live and I got excited... then I read the post and I was sad.  :'(
At first I was
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But then I was
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Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: Isildur on January 31, 2010, 12:37:17 AM
Well I changed the thread title so that no more poor souls will get confused :p
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: 3-Liner And Bags Of Chips on January 31, 2010, 02:06:15 PM
And the award for funniest post in the Long Live Retro Redemption thread is....*opens envelope*...*drum roll*

broward!!!

*music plays and steps down from podium*(sp)
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: lightningninja on January 31, 2010, 04:54:26 PM
Nice job Isildur! I might try this as well... that sounds like fun!
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: Isildur on February 03, 2010, 11:38:25 PM
Today at a playgroup meeting we played a few games. I proceded to slaughter Bryon 5-2 in the first game and got 2nd in a multiplayer game though I was going to get SOG next turn and had NJ in my hand. All in a good days work. I may add Pats cards to the deck to make it unstopable! lol....
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: sk on February 04, 2010, 03:05:43 AM
I may add Pats cards to the deck to make it unstopable! lol....
Oh, now you're just talking crazy.
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: DDiceRC on February 04, 2010, 08:08:30 AM
You call that Retro??? Come visit a NJ game and watch Justin and me play REAL old school...as in, back to the Redemption Players Guide. Very quick games, and cards that are useless now suddenly become fairly powerful. (And AoC=AoCP in these games!)
Title: Re: Retro Redemption Live on!
Post by: hi123 on February 04, 2010, 08:10:57 AM
I saw Redemption Live and I got excited... then I read the post and I was sad.  :'(
At first I was
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But then I was
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How Do You Do THat?
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: Isildur on February 04, 2010, 10:11:14 AM
You call that Retro??? Come visit a NJ game and watch Justin and me play REAL old school...as in, back to the Redemption Players Guide. Very quick games, and cards that are useless now suddenly become fairly powerful. (And AoC=AoCP in these games!)
I would love to! The only problem is down here people want to actualy win games ): So ill have to stick with all these fancy sets. Though I am working on a Originals deck 8)
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: lightningninja on February 04, 2010, 01:34:49 PM
Yeah I typically try to prove that you CAN win with things people don't consider useful... not try to make decks around weird themes. Like could a deck that relied ONLY on A-bom for offense and some defense win games? It did (although the original idea, though not the deck, was Gabe Isbell's idea) Can you still use TGT with equal or greater success? We'll see.  ;)
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: DDiceRC on May 01, 2010, 04:06:03 PM
For the genuine hard-core Retro players (i.e., nothing past Prophets), we're hoping to run a Retro Type 1 2-player and Retro booster draft sometime this summer.

Yes, I said Retro booster draft. It's our one concession to modernity, because it's so dang fun! You get three blue and three green boosters, and draft from there. Add enough generic LSs to get to 7, and you probably have your deck complete. Then it's off to a land where Isaiah rules, Devotion of Ruth is a stopper, and multi-player games never come close to timing out. And a 10/10 EC sends shivers down your spine.

So anyone around central NJ, get ready to Retro rumble this summer!
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: Warrior_Monk on May 01, 2010, 04:28:15 PM
I've been playing with primarily warriors cards for the past 4 years. on and off. never complete though, because Mayhem is just too much fun. awesome job though!
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: adotson85 on May 01, 2010, 05:49:28 PM
For the genuine hard-core Retro players (i.e., nothing past Prophets), we're hoping to run a Retro Type 1 2-player and Retro booster draft sometime this summer.

Yes, I said Retro booster draft. It's our one concession to modernity, because it's so dang fun! You get three blue and three green boosters, and draft from there. Add enough generic LSs to get to 7, and you probably have your deck complete. Then it's off to a land where Isaiah rules, Devotion of Ruth is a stopper, and multi-player games never come close to timing out. And a 10/10 EC sends shivers down your spine.

So anyone around central NJ, get ready to Retro rumble this summer!

I remember back in the day when Red Dragon, Abaddon, Goliath, Beast from the Sea and Beast from the Earth ruled the day. I guess that is a retro standalone defense.
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: The Warrior on May 01, 2010, 08:27:58 PM
i use a older strategy my older deck
how bout warriors PG demons/angels
Title: Re: Long Live Retro Redemption!
Post by: DDiceRC on May 01, 2010, 10:13:57 PM

I remember back in the day when Red Dragon, Abaddon, Goliath, Beast from the Sea and Beast from the Earth ruled the day. I guess that is a retro standalone defense.

Or my favorite:

Example: Put two copies of a card like The False Prophet in your deck (legal, as it has no special abilities). Set one aside with Molech Worship. Then put the second copy in play (also legal under Retro rules, since we play according to the RPG and cards set aside are not in play). When the in play copy is defeated, bring back your now jacked-up copy to take its place.

This is probably why the rule was changed so that cards set aside count against your duplicates controlled.

Even without that, thanks to no SAs there's nothing like Justin pulling out three Goliaths in a row as you defeat them...
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