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Nails Makes sense, But ACiB doens't, you'd be much better off with AoCP, it does everything ACiB does and more. Other than that I agree, Mayhem may see more play in multi-player than 2 player.

Protection Fortress for the win, (Unless you're playing Romans or something.)

Quote from: Red Dragon Thorn on August 08, 2009, 08:17:09 PM

Protection Fortress for the win, (Unless you're playing Romans or something.)

romans need protection :/

yes they do.

Although Grapes comes close, I'm not sure any card in TexP is truly a staple. While I could see it becoming closer and closer to being a staple as more people use demons, I don't think 3 Nails is a staple either simply because the threat of it makes people wary of playing all demons and consequently they aren't dominant. Kind of similar to how banding defenses never became dominant in the days when AoCP was the only way to beat them--the threat of AoC kept people from using banding defense exclusively.

Although there's many cards that find their way into most of my decks, the only ones I can safely say have been in every serious deck are Son of God, New Jerusalem, Angel of the Lord and Christian Martyr;, beyond those I believe every slot in the deck to be open.

I tried Romans for T2 at Nats (the numerous end the battle options seemed like a good idea at the time), and only lost Emperors in territory to AoCp twice -- the color guard lost soul is very useful and often forgotten about.  Had I not tried the dual-color defense, it might have actually won a few battles