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Characters:
Thomas
7/7 Blue Hero
"Enhancements played by Thomas are CBN."
Pros: He is Cannot be negated After all. Cons:He's Blue Blue is bad non Genesis. Also his numbers are too high.

John
7/8 Purple Hero
"Prevent all Special Abilties on Evil Characters except banding."
Pros: TGT Hero with a great SA.
Cons: Not many
 
Matthew(Levi):
7/7 Green Hero
"First Strike."
Pros: None
Cons: High numbers with First Stike.

James son of Zebedee
8/6 Purple Hero
"May Band to John."
Pros: A staple in a Apostles deck because of the banding to John
Cons:None
 
Peter
10/10 Red Hero
"If peter is captured Return him 3 turns later."
Pros: TGT Hero
Cons: High abilities.    

Overview:
With all the apostles being Uber-Weak or worse the only way to play them would be a banding deck like this one: Apostles/Persans
 

Lost Souls:7
   Female only
   Shuffler
   5xGenric

Heros:11
   Bartholomew
   Centurion at Capernaum
   Claudia
   John
   Mentor
   James son of Z.
   Parmenas
   Thaddaeus
   Thomas
   Matthew
   James son of A.
  
Good Domaniants:3
   Harvest time
   Son of God
   Angel of the lord
 
Artifacts:4
   Unknown Nation
   Covenant with Noah.
   Golden calf
   Temple Veil
 
Sites:1
   The Ends of the Earth.

Evil Doms:1
   Burial
 
Good Ehancments:6
   Sign of the Rainbow
   Ehud's Dagger (Blue)
   Trapped in cleverness
   Unity in Christ
   Preaching the truth
   The Word Spreads
   Holy ground

Evil characters:8
   King Zedekiah
   Morgan
   Unclean Spirit
   Korah
   The Bear
   Foul Spirit
   Persian presidents
   Haman

Enhancements:10
   Dungeon of Malchiah
   Seeds of Rebellion
   Zeresh Advises Haman
   Lacking Sleep
   Lying unto God
   Self-doubt
   Paul's Girdle
   Korah's Rebellion
   Rebellios
   Face of death

  Interview with Tyler Stevens.

  Red:How did you come to Redemption Tyler?

 Tyler:I came to Redemption through my grandparent's Christian Book Store in Punta Gorda Florida.. I saw the booster packs and wanted to get some. My grandfather had me do some work around the store for packs and it got me hooked. That summer I went to CBS, which is a convention for Christian Book Stores. That is where I met Ken Shartle, who taught me the game and got me connected with people in Georgia. That was back in 1998 I believe.
 
 Red:What was your first deck?

 Tyler:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Ah I remember my first deck as if it was yesterday... Silver/blue banding, negates, and high numbers for offense, with the same thing but Crimson/Black on defense. I used angels, but I didn't have a Captain, The Strong Angel, or a Michael.   I just used Tribal Elder, Jacob, Seraphim, banding enhancements, some negates, and some battle winners, but with no low numbered heroes, go figure. Defense was big guys, some negates, banding enhancements, and some battle winners. Also you gotta remember the time frame though, it was back during Kings, and everyone was using by the number heroes, by the number banding, or purple/white with Transfiguration/Authority of Christ promo recursion, so you had to stop big numbers. Anyway my first tournament was GA state years ago and I got beat pretty bad. I came back regionals with a slightly better piece of junk deck, but this time with only black for defense, and still got spanked. I then played in a local or a district next year and played with a hybrid fast attack deck and won. That was the last time I played type 1 at a tournament. I went to type 2 and created a Morg deck... yeah I know I am ashamed. I eventually tore it apart and starting making stronger decks and I came back to state and went undefeated in type 2. I think I also won Southeast Regionals that year or got second, and then went to Nationals and got third in type 2 2 player, and 2nd in Type 2 multiplayer. Needless to say I found my
 
Red:So any advice on a tansition from Type one to Type two?

Tyler:Going from type 1 to type 2 is not nearly as hard to do as type 1 players say it is. I hear many type 1 players saying type 2 is 5 copies of the best cards in brigades, yes there are many decks that do that in top tournament decks, but a player does not need 5 of the top cards in every brigade to play type 2. A type 1 player can easily put doubles of a card, or 3-4 if the player has it, into his deck and make it into a type 2 deck. I think the single best quality of type 2 is having each deck having the same number of defensive cards as good cards, which means each player knows the deck they are facing is going to be able to defend. As for some more advice, don't just add doubles or more to your type 1 to a type 2 deck and call it a day, maybe you have more cards in another brigade, or can split into a 2-3 color offense, or a 2 color defense. So my best advice is see what you have in your collection to make a type 2 and play with what is fun. As you acquire more cards you can play with more copies of certain cards, but as for transitioning into type 1 to type 2, okay with what you have.
 
Red:What is your Faverite card?

Tyler:It comes out in Disciples. But, as for now, Abomination of Desolation probably. My most used is definitely Reuben's Torn Clothes and Unholy Writ.

Red:James? Anyway what do you think of Disciples so far?

Tyler:Ehh, my prediction is there will be a small handful of stand out cards. The rest of the set will be played only in the first few months and then people will play with other stuff again. I think one deck will stand out by far. But that's all my disciple talk.