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Well, I have played phillys a few times, and they are a ton of fun to play! For fortresses you will need a philistine outpost to help you get your defense out in a flash. For Characters you will need a Philistine Armour Bearer, a Philistine Garrison,  a Fallen Warrior, a Twelve fingered Giant, and a Lots wife (if you can get one). Finally for enhancements you will want a bringing fear, a foolish advise, an overwhelmed by philistines, a philistine chariots and horses, a carcases can help too. Thats just the basics to a philistine deck off the top of my head, I might have missed something important though.

The giants are OK I guess, but they don't work so well with rest of the philistines. for example because their numbers are so big the never get to play the first enhancement in battle.

Combine them with Canaanites. It makes for a large deck if you keep a big offense, (sometimes around 80 cards) but they can do amazing things together.

Play something other than Philistines?

I've never really had a problem playing Phillistine/Canaanites and keeping it down to 50-56 cards.  I'll try to find an old deck I built that was rather balanced that used that D, post that later (not at my own computer now).

Well, I had a largish offense with a large defense. And I like doms.