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Phineas and Ahimaaz are great! Looking forward to playing both!

Also, I'm glad we finally decided that driving out giants involves killing a few. I remember that discussion when Goliath came out

Can you "teal" the love...

With the new O.T. Red heroes just spoiled, what do you guys think is the best T1 red lineup now?

My guess is:

David the Shepherd
Benaiah
Jonathan, Son of Shimei
Caleb
Ahimaaz
Asahel
Uriah the Hittite
Ishmaiah the Gibeonite
Ahimelek the Hittite
Joab

Obviously the strategy and defense will impact the selections.

Good points! The problem I see though is getting initiative- Ahimaaz and Uriah are about the only ones with low numbers. Perhaps you'll have a choose the blocker target for Asahel too.

What no love for Spy? He's only like one of the best heros in Red and a Joshua Hero to boot.

With the new O.T. Red heroes just spoiled, what do you guys think is the best T1 red lineup now?

My guess is:

David the Shepherd
Benaiah
Jonathan, Son of Shimei
Caleb
Ahimaaz
Asahel
Uriah the Hittite
Ishmaiah the Gibeonite
Ahimelek the Hittite
Joab

Obviously the strategy and defense will impact the selections.

I personally think any mono Red deck that doesn't run Jehu is probably suboptimal. 

Also, running Ahimaaz and therefore adding a 3rd good brigade will probably be more risk than reward in a FoM meta.

Good points! The problem I see though is getting initiative- Ahimaaz and Uriah are about the only ones with low numbers. Perhaps you'll have a choose the blocker target for Asahel too.

Inish has always been a little rough for Red, but they also have a ton of interrupts and negates. It's kind of a toss-up at this point. Uriah and the old 1/1 from FooF/RoA are more or less your options, and only Uriah is remotely playable. Asahel's choose the blocker tends to win more battles than his band does, but the band has a habit of drawing more with Ishmaiah.

The Red/Throne deck I ran at Nats last year used Joshua as a secondary core with Cap, Spy, and Rahab as his targets. It worked well as a sort of backup package, and Josh-Cap can do wonders for bludgeoning through defences. Sadly, as Benaiah will probably be better, so that changes his targets, reasonably, to Caleb and possibly spy (Though Ahamaaz is almost a straight upgrade). Unless more Joshua heroes show up (I could see armies like the one that ambushed Ai in the future) Josh is going to be somewhat limited in usefulness this set.

Which is sad, because I like him. He's sorta a worse David for the deck, but you can still do work with the team he gives. It's a secondary helper if your David's buried/discarded/captured/banished/prevented.

What no love for Spy? He's only like one of the best heros in Red and a Joshua Hero to boot.

Spy is great. It's just harder to find spots for him in a crowded deck. He's nice for info and better with Rahab in territory, but Rahab breaks Unity and Ahamaaz is almost entirely better.

Quote from: Asahel24601 on April 12, 2018, 01:08:47 PM

I'd run Elhanan in there somewhere, just because reserve access will help a lot. I could also easily see Joshua in there as well, for a bigger Benaiah banding chain and another Josh hero for hailstones.

Josh won't get you a bigger Benaiah banding chain - reread Caleb's ability 

Oh... Don't know how I missed that. Well, still. Josh is a decent card, if just to grab Caleb and Spy.

I think my lineup for Red would be something like:

David, the Shepherd
Joshua, Son of Nun
Captured Kinsmen
Caleb
Asahel
Ishmaiah
Animelek
Elhanan
Jonathan, Son of Shimei
Captain of the Host

The Judges player in me would probably include AUtO/Sam but if I was looking to stay in red then my next adds would probably be Uriah, King Jehu, and/or Ahimaaz (not necessarily in that order).

No, I think they were looking for this:

Spoiler (hover to show)

Those are the bomb-digity! I can't wait to get my hands on the Legacy Rares!

Sweet. I don't suppose you've got any more? Say, for example, one that goes really well with a certain Zealous priest who got revealed today..?

What of course I'm not really hoping for an LR Zeal for the Lord why would you even suggest something like that