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I'd like to get players' feedback on the most successful single color defense with the fewest number of cards.  I say fewest number of cards because I'm trying to shrink my deck from 63 cards to no more than 56 before our tournament at the end of the month.  These are my choices with the cards I currently have:

Gold Egyptians (I also have Emperor Claudius and Gold KOT, if needed)

Pale Green Assyrians (I also have Pale Green POTW, and other pale green demons, if needed)

Crimson Babylonians (I also have Gomer, Ann/Sapphira, Red Dragon and other crimson demons if needed)

Black Sadduccees (I usually also throw in Lot's Wife)

Grey Syrians (I usually throw in Nero and Lying Spirit? (the banding grey demon))

Orange Demons (And I do have Orange KOT and Orange POTW)

Brown Site-lockout (This has been mildly successful for me too, but certain decks do annoyingly well against it)

So I guess I'm wondering which one is the most "efficient", meaning strong with fewer ECs and EEs.  How many defensive cards should a 56 card deck have in it anyway?  Is 20 about right?

Don't be surprised if my next question is about the best single color offense   Thanks for the advice everyone.

you could use a pseudo lockout brown defense.

throw in like, one BBH and two babylons, taking naboths vineyard, and mabye wastelands. Then, have the rest of your defense be what bubbleboy described.

Brown can actually become very flexible if used right. I still rank it as the #1 defensive brigade.

*EDIT*

Thanks to this thread, I just rebuilt my nasty brown defense I had made a while ago.

I actually dont use that card, as much as it would fit.. i need room for the better stuff. 

You up for a game? 

Brown is definitely one of the defenses I hate facing most. Zedekiah & Dungeon, Uzzah, and Haman's Plot are all "cheap" almost insta-wins, with very little you can do against it.

That new card won't dim down brown at all either....

Each turn one Hero will drop 0/2. It does not continue to "drain".

You can reduce one Hero per turn.  For example:

1st turn I reduce King David by 0/2.

2nd turn I reduce Widow by 0/2.  (King David does not get reduced again since I targeted Widow this turn)

Does that help clarify?

I have to make an argument for crimson...

  Not only is crimson really strong but all those cards he's mentioning are common/uncommon so they're easy to aquire.  In addition to all those inexpensive cards crimson also has a couple nice ultra rares - Judas and Leviathan.  Neither are absolutely necessary to make a crimson defense but they will help if you have them.

Why?  Because it's so good?