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Offline Red Warrior

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Tabernacle & Offerings
« on: February 04, 2014, 12:40:04 PM »
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Hey friends!

As a worship minister, I've been enjoying a read through Exodus this week for some of our sermon topics... it got me thinking about some of the seldom used Tabernacle related cards. I was trying to think of way to make at least a few plays viable...

PLEASE correct me if I'm wrong on this combo:
Activate "Urim and Thummim", take a look-see at their hand, determine "threatening brigade".
Activate "Altar of Burnt Offering": "You may play up to two offering Enhancements during your preparation phase. They activate immediately and then are discarded"
Play Grain Offering: "All Heroes in play are immune to selected evil brigade this turn" (Type 2 Note: feel free to play 2 :))
Because Grain Offering was played in a previous phase, this immunity cannot be negated.

I believe this would even keep Goliath from returning your hero to territory ?
If you're immune to Brown (for instance), would that protect your hero from any brigade played on Foreign Wives?

I would greatly appreciate your help in brainstorming some Tabernacle related ideas!
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Re: Tabernacle & Offerings
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2014, 03:25:18 PM »
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That is a fairly cool combo, it won't stop End the Battle or suicide type defenses, but if you can find a way to continuously recur the offerings you'll eventually get through. And it will disarm your opponent's most devastating battle winners. I'd recommend running Glory of the Lord to keep The Tabernacle and Altar of Burnt Offering from being discarded.

I think it's really fun to find cool combos like this, I actually had an Exodus deck, and I'm kind of sad I didn't think of this combo (not sure if I would have used it though, since Teal was only my third color)
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Re: Tabernacle & Offerings
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2014, 04:45:14 PM »
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Quote from: Red Warrior on February 04, 2014, 12:40:04 PM
I believe this would even keep Goliath from returning your hero to territory ?
If you're immune to Brown (for instance), would that protect your hero from any brigade played on Foreign Wives?

Yep and yep.  Also, the immunity would be CBN because the ability completed in a previous phase, unless I'm missing something, so that's fun.  All legal, and I concur about using Glory.

Day of Atonement can do some recursion for you, and you have good drawing (First Fruits) and plenty of discard for curses/evil enhancements.

However, I might recommend using Z-Temple instead of Tabernacle, and then rolling with Joiada, Son of Eliashib for awesome recursion (that can also add to battle).  That also adds feasts to your useful cards.
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Re: Tabernacle & Offerings
« Reply #3 on: February 06, 2014, 12:40:11 PM »
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Clarification: I'm picturing this in Type II (as usual) - I doubt 1x copy of combo would be of any use in T1 haha.

ChristianSoldier
Yeah I may try an "Exodus" version of this deck, I've got a deck I've kept around for fun to play some of my newer play group members called "The Pentateuch": The offense is Green, Gold, Teal (All cards from the first 5 books of the Bible - the Pentateuch) and the defense is Sadducees (who only believed that the Pentateuch/Torah was Canon).

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Yeah I'll have to consider my best "Temple" options... Z-Temple gets me an already solid offense, play Grain Offering on Altar in the prep phase, attack with Joiada to recur (basically play and recur if they run mono). With multiple copies of Grain Offering there are times I could instead recur-and-play Fellowship Offering to get the Nehemiah party going (Bonus: Jaddua takes away their Uzzah block).

Another possibility would be to make this a Solomon's Temple based offense. Temple Priests takes away suicide blocks. Some well-timed Feast of Booths would create a recursion loop. Solomon would get out the temple and GotL faster. The main thing the Solomon's Temple route would lack would be the protection and easy banding.

Thanks a ton for the ideas guys, keep them coming!
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Re: Tabernacle & Offerings
« Reply #4 on: February 06, 2014, 09:00:15 PM »
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I will have to try this in a deck. I will probobly combine it with kings to get more speed, and easier recuring, and I would have Elis sound advice in the deck also, and If I go offence heavy I will add samuel banding chains to work with that card more. I would keep the tabernacle, and add book of the covenant, and have covenant of eden and I am redemption active on it, (what was the ruling on the protection of those covenants with Glory of the Lord in that thread earlier?) and than covering of the sacred things is a must have in priests deck.
I am very interested in these ideas and will try to come up with more!
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Re: Tabernacle & Offerings
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2014, 12:37:13 AM »
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Hey Red Warrior, this is the basis of Westy's GrainBelt deck from back in the day. Yes, the CBN immunity works just as stated--even verified by Bryon.

If I recall correctly, Westy recurred Grain Offering by playing Feast of Booths and Joiada with Z's Temple. He also used The Name of the Lord, to "recur" Joiada.

For the immune guys you don't need priests. I know Westy ran the big red banders (Men of Judah and Army of the Simeonites) for a while. If you go with big FBNB you will both stuff chump blocks and make it difficult to get high enough to play an end the battle.
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