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Damsel totally wins this. Egyptian Magicians is good, but Damsel's drawing ability is awesome.

Damsel is orange. I am Minnesotan. Egyptian Magicians is at least playable.

Yes, but EM can recur Invoking terror and CBI band to an Egyptian in addition to a d1. 

Still, it's really not as good as Damsel is it?

EM is way better.

I'm genuinely shocked that EM is beating Damsel, let alone by this many votes. I think Damsel has a few things going for her that Egyptian Magicians simply doesn't. First, she's the second best drawing evil character in the game (Vittles is the best, with Sabbath Breaker in third), since pretty much everything but Genesis is bound to have at least two different brigades in hand at some point or another. Obviously, she (unlike Sabbath Breaker) can also easily be used multiple times. Additionally, her being able to look at an opponent's hand is absolutely huge because of the timing. Most people at that point are done drawing; aside from the handful of enhancements like Reach of Desperation that draw mid-battle and the handful of territory class enhancements that draw after battle (neither one of which is particularly popular right now), there aren't really any ways to draw after all the heroes are in battle. This means that you're getting a very, very good look at what you can expect with your next rescue attempt, an advantage that cannot be overstated. True, Egyptian Magicians can pull Invoking Terror from the bottom, but how useful is that really, when you consider all the banding and recursion that occurs? The Invoking Terror play doesn't even really work in a traditional Genyptians deck, since Genesis isn't fast enough to justify a 1:1 character/enhancement ratio, so you'd have to add more Magicians to justify it. This isn't the end of the world of course, but at that point, you're playing as much of a Magicians defense as you are Genyptians, and that's a lot to add for one strategy.

Damsel didn't see this one coming. Halle Berry why you do dis to my bracket?

We've pulled within two votes, and it was a five vote difference when I started my speech, so there's still hope to pull ahead.

I can't believe EM is winning this. Damsel is much, much better. Can EM Discard the top 8 cards of your opponent's deck, sending Lost Souls to play? Didn't think so.

This combo is epic, for sure, but it still requires a minimum of 5 cards to be guaranteed to work, and you have to pull it off before your opponent decks or wins, and it can be countered with numerous anti-meta arts. 

She also works well as a hero for me since shes a N.T. female.  If you don't want to add one of those to your offense, its nice to have one available to convert.

And on that note, she can also be saved by Herod's Temple as an EC or a hero.

Egyptian Magicians is beating Damsel because too many people picked Damsel in the brackets and we're just screwing everybody over.

Well, that and the fact that Egyptian Magicians has access to tons of great battle winners, tons of banding possibilities, and gets initiative more often than not. Damsel won't get a block. She might survive the battle because of Arts/Dominants, but she won't be the one doing it.

A lame one.  But hey Damsel is only down by one at this point she can still do this. 

Ring Wraith doesn't even like cake. He said John McCrea sounded bored when singing.

And Damsel takes the lead!

EM is way better.

This.