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Poor Gideon.  He finally got dug out of everyone's collection, but now gets slammed by a fellow Judge....

It's really not fair to pair Gideon against the best of the best in gold. Gideon has a shot at being the second or third best in gold, but now he'll never get to do anything.

Pairings are based on number of nominations.  1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6, and 4 v 5.

Samuel was seeded #2, Gideon #7.

Moses was seeded #1 (which is probably why he is currently winning his poll 7 to 0).

The top seed is listed first in the thread title and in the poll.

Honestly, Samuel is really overrated. He's not a good hero. At all. He's just the common link in many good things. Gideon gets far more rescues just because CM, HP, and Writ can't touch him, and he still gets the benefit of the D2 off of Prof Oak. Samuel requires waay too much support to be made truly useful. The D2 in Samuel's is only every once in awhile, and once you've pulled out David and King Saul (if you have multiples whatever, you're probably not going to be able to search for them every time), you should probably be rescuing with Gideon, not Samuel, since Gideon can actually make full use of Samuel's Edict while at the same time make full use of his special ability (or rather, Prof Oak's special ability).