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Title says it all. I have a couple but they are not that good.

First one: King amazing choose a king to give you initiative and play Valley of Salt.

Second one: Go in With a Royal king with TToD up. Play peace treaty band to ET play AoCP

Any other ones?

Quote from: Rawrlolsauce! on October 30, 2010, 03:37:39 PM

Arby's: A number 7 (replacing curly fries with loaded potato bites) and a root beer. With lots of Arby's sauce

Eleazar's Sword.

I know you'd say that one Andrew lol

Philly garison to green and add a elasar sword then play ANB

Converted Proud Pharisee+OoN. The only counters are Kir, Lurking, and Grapes (and not Kir if I have Benedictus and not Lurking if I have Wool Fleece).

The Darkness? Unknown Nation? Gates?

Quote from: Red on November 09, 2010, 11:52:26 AM

Philly garison to green and add a elasar sword then play ANB

You can't be immune to yourself...

Please point to an official ruling that says otherwise.

Quote from: 3-Liner And Bags Of Chips on November 09, 2010, 01:25:00 PM

Quote from: Red on November 09, 2010, 11:52:26 AM

Philly garison to green and add a elasar sword then play ANB

You can't be immune to yourself...

Please point to an official ruling that says otherwise.

It's not official yet, but it should(/will?) be.

EDIT: Actually, it is official:

Immune

Immune is a special ability for characters. Immunity protects a character from being defeated or directly affected by another card.

Right. ANB is a different card than Ittai.

And who are you playing it on?

Printed rules > Rob since I don't have access to Rob at tournaments I host. I have no way of knowing what people have or haven't said verbally about rulings, the REG and common sense/logic are all I have to go on.

Glossary of Terms -> Definitions -> Immune

I dunno if the hand limit thing has, but at least there was an announcement thread about it with the ruling and the reasons for it (and it makes sense). Dunno what the "lost souls in lob" one is....

Quote from: Minister Polarius on November 09, 2010, 12:22:06 PM

Converted Proud Pharisee+OoN. The only counters are Kir, Lurking, and Grapes (and not Kir if I have Benedictus and not Lurking if I have Wool Fleece).

The Darkness? Unknown Nation? Gates?

The first two also stopped by Wool Fleece, and Gates works once. In other words, CTB can only be reliably stopped by any deck once, twice if you're running Gates. Even then, Grapes will let me attack again.

Not as big of an issue in T2. In T1, however, the strength of CTB is that it only takes 4-5 cards to have an entire win strategy, then you've got the whole rest of your offense, whereas countering CTB takes up lots of bulk that isn't necessarily useful when facing non-CTB. Of the potential stoppers, The Darkness, KotW, and Kir are not worth it because they're basically dead cards when not facing CTB, Grapes should just be in every deck so that's a freebee, and it's unlikely that a deck will be able to utilize both UN and Gates, so that's take your pick (and UN is stopped by Naz and, more importantly, Abe's Kids), and then you've got Lurking, an underrated card but not really the best card either.

To sum it up, by me putting Asher, Jacob, and OoN in my deck, I have a win strat that's difficult to stop more than once. Adding Wool Fleece, Proud Pharisee, Herod's Temple and Holy Grail makes it impossible to stop except by Gates, Grapes, and Kir. Six cards and I have an entire offense, with room for 8-14ish more cards to add speed and beef. In the same brigade that has stuff like Jacob's Dream for Kir, Abe's Kids for Lurking and UN, Sound the Trumpet for KotW, etc.

The only reason Genesis isn't running away with the show this year is because it's slowish, but I'm developing a deck that will counteract that weakness. So far it's performing very well.