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So I played a game today in which Angel with a Secret Name and Angel Under the Oak were used to repeatedly recur Moses 5 times....yes, I know....I found it frustrating too.

Obviously, the most common recursion in these decks is to recur Samuel, but have we been thinking that out too broadly? I played a different Judges offense recently that had no Moses in it, yet when I checked the REG to confirm, it says he is a Judge, even though neither the reprint nor the original have this identifier.

So the question is, are Judges defenses lacking because they have no Samuel in them? From my perspective I should say boo to Samuel, hello to Moses, and waltz into my opponents LOB for 4 souls like my opponent did.

So the question is, are Judges defenses lacking because they have no Samuel in them? From my perspective I should say boo to Samuel, hello to Moses, and waltz into my opponents LOB for 4 souls like my opponent did.

I'd be pretty surprised if you had a Judges defense with Sam.  Sam blends well into any offense these days, Moses fits into less.  Sam allows a deck to be fast, and there isn't much loss of power for that speed.