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Final record: 4-1 (1 time-out win) +18 Lost Souls.

Needed another turn or two I would have beat Matt.

Needed a better defensive strategy against Disciples and I might have beat Gabe...

so 5 rounds? Great report Justin. Wish I could have been there.

10 rounds or bust.

Multiplayer report please!!!! 

Most likely tomorrow or late tonight...today is super busy for me.

And if people want to use the same 2p and multi deck...?

T2 MP Report

Round 1 vs Pat Wester and Caleb Ardohl

This game got off to a pretty standard start. We each drew a bit of offense and a bit of defense and no one jumped out early. Pat was using Red/Brown. Unfortunately for him my Darius' Decree stopped his Soldier's Prayers which stalled his offense considerably. Caleb (who is a younger and less experienced T2 player) was using a multi-brigade offense and defense and often had trouble getting enhancements to match the characters he had. I abused Salome/The New Covenant as I simply attacked every turn without much fear of potential Plots from Pat--he ended up tearing one, but I healed all my Heroes. The game was still close going into the final round with Caleb having 3, Pat 4 and myself having 4. (Pat was the only one who had used SoG/NJ.) I had SoG in hand but no NJ. I rescued #5 on my turn. Caleb was stopped and then came Pat's final turn. Before he attacked, I played Burial on Caleb's LS leaving only the 2 Liner in Caleb's territory. This play forced Pat to attack me, which is exactly what I wanted. He attacked and I blocked with an EC equipped with Horses (I actually drew 6 cards total during the battle) and drew my New Jerusalem in those 6, allowing me to get to 7.

1st: 7-4-3

Round 2 vs Andrew Wester, Tim Drown and Jordan Alstad

This was a great game on all sides. Andrew drew an early Gifts of the Magi/Generous Widow and it appeared he was going to draw his entire deck before the game was done. Despite all the drawing however, he had no Redeemed LS to show for his efforts. My offense started very slow and only a TSA attack against Jordan's Pharisee defense ended up working. Jordan had the early lead with his Bulletproof Samson going unopposed for several rescues. My Darius' Decree had slowed him a bit, but I decided to turn up Lampstand instead and he got off Birth Foretold. Unfortunately, he used Captured Ark and Lampstand went away. A turn or two later I drew Nazareth. This ended up being huge as I re-activated Darius' Decree and stopped TC enhancements, searching and protected myself from a Mayhem and a Captured Ark. I then drew my Philip, rescued with him and put Nazareth into battle as well letting me search for Bartholomew and those guys started my offense rolling. I ended up getting 3 "freebies" against Tim who couldn't stop the big numbers+protection from capture. However, Jordan then used Stalks of Flax to steal my band... He attacked me with it and when I blocked low for initiative, he used Grapes to shuffle my band into deck. *grumble grumble* Everyone was getting close to winning (I had 4 w/ NJ in hand, Jordan had 5, no SoG/NJ, Tim had 4, no SoG/NJ and Andrew had 5 or 6 using his SoG to stop Jordan from getting 6) when I drew on my turn and my 3rd card was SoG! I rescued against Tim with Susanna and a He is Risen in hand. He had no way to block me and I played SoG/NJ to win. The craziest thing about this game was that I drew very little defense early in the game yet I was never attacked for some reason. Jordan kept using Urim and Thummin to look at Tim and Andrew's hands but never looked at mine (which would have let him know I had virtually no defense that matched). Later in the game I was finally attacked but my defense was ready by that time and I made several blocks. I have also never been such a fan of Nazareth as I was in that game...so awesome.

1st: 7-6-5-4 (I think)