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What cards are good against CotH after its in play? I'm mainly looking for cards in the black and crimson brigade.

Take it from someone who has played with Captain In a deck sence I started playing in 2004. the best and I mean the absolute best thing for stopping captain is Phillisteen armour bearer and 12 fingered giant with goliaths spear on eaither. Seriously, I use it myself "when I use defense" and it works 99% of the time. I would also use asherah pole cause crimson/ black has no shortage of killer cards. "edit...add torment u might also want to add the 0/6 crimson curse that allows you to capture a hero if a warrior class ec is in battle and/or unholy writ/ unknown nations as they are all very useful against many different things, which is what you want to have in a deck versatility...edit"

Prince of the Air.  Unless it's the king's version... in which case household idols and Philistine Garrison.

go in with 12fg and play bringing fear. So awesome

Black has a lot of great cards that go well vs. Captain. As mentioned, the Philistines are great, especially with Bringing Fear. You play that, and you stop any banding that brought Captain in, or if it's just vs. Captain, then you stop his BTN ability allowing you to use your other enhancements. Intent to Kill is another nice black battle winner that can take care of Captain nicely, since it can't be prevented. As mentioned, TFG upsets a banding chain, and can often defeat a Captain by himself, unless your opponent has  a silver offense.

Other than that, a Sadducees defense can also be very effective, and can go one of two ways: first, you can counter a Captain banding chain with a banding chain of one or more of the 1/3 guys who can bring in the high-numbered High Priests (Annas, Caiaphas, Ananias), or if you're sneaky, you can use just two of the 1/3 Sadd's (two to avoid AotL), and play High Priests Plot to potentially get their SoG, assuming you have Judas (who is Crimson).

Crimson's best defense against CoTH is probably Nergalsharezer, whose enhancements are CBN if another Bab is in play. Also, Leviathan works well against BTN guys, and you can even use Fallen Angel (Warriors) to band to him against Captain to get a quick 18/20 banding chain.

Hope that helps!

HHI would prevent them from banding CotH in, but not from him by himself.

OMGoodness! I was completely reading the card wrong!   For some odd reason I thought that it (the SA) also applied to characters!!!!!!!!!! Ok so now I get why Philistine Garrison would own! So, basically any negate SA or immune to type character would be good against CotH!?

Then according to REG philistine garrison does nothing!

Type:  Evil Char. • Brigade:  Black • Ability:  12 / 8 • Class:  • Special Ability:  Immune to lone Heroes. • Attributes:  Generic, Philistine, Fought Earthly Battle • Identifiers:  Generic OT Male Human, Philistia, Fought Earthly Battle •

Its not weapon class!

The Kings CotH would Negate Garrison as it is Warrior-Class, not Weapon-Class.

The Kings CotH would Negate Garrison as it is Warrior-Class, not Weapon-Class.

Wait seriously? So Captain negates himself? Or is there an errata? Or does he just say "except this ability?"