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This is a deck that can perpetually block with two different strategies.

Dominants
Son of God
New Jerusalem
Glory of the Lord
Burial
Angel of the Lord
Destruction of Nehushtan
Falling Away

Fortresses
Chamber of Angels
Solomon’s Temple
Gates of Hell
Fishing Boat
Satan’s Seat
Storehouse

Artifacts
Chariot of Fire
Holy of Holies
Crown of Thorns
Golden Cherubim
Book of the Covenant
Covenant of Eden
Covenant of Palestine
Burial Shroud
Unholy Writ

Sites
Caesarea Philippi
Nazareth
Golgotha
Roman Prison
Herod’s Dungeon
Chorazin
Marketplace

Heroes
Matthew
Gabriel
John
Ethiopian Treasurer
Saul/Paul

Good Enhancements
You are the Christ
Authority of Peter
The Fifth Seal
Sing and praise

Evil Characters
Wandering Spirit
Trembling Demon
False Teachers

Evil Enhancements
Philosophy
Ashtoreth Worship

Lost Souls
NT only
Female only
Same Book
Same testament
Speed Bump
Hero Resurrect
FBTN


I have already completed this deck, and the strategies are: Offence does very little but is completely recurable, the artifacts are because I don't have a ton of other cards that would help the deck as much
It has the demon circle, Sol temp, Crown of thorns, holy o holy, trembling demon, and wandering spirit. The demons block, wandering spirit and than band to treble, and have holy of holies active in solomons temple along with crown of thorns, and your trembling demon is discarded instantly because of that, but is underdecked instead, and your wandering spirit is 1/3, so it can be underdecked also, and you can  use GoH to keep this going.
The other defence combination is somewhat complicated.

1. You block with False teachers, and discard saul/paul from your hand to protect lost souls from rescue, and False teachers gets discarded.

2.You use Gabriel and 5th seal or Chariot of fire to recur saul/paul.

3. Next time your opponent tries a rescue attempt you use marketplace, and exchange philosophy with False teachers and repeat step 1.

4. Next turn you use Ethiopian treasurer to recur philosophy, and even use one of the powerful good enhancements.

5. Keep repeating, and you have a battle winner that is recurable and can be used consistently every turn.


This thread is not about this deck, I am wondering what all defence deck would go best with this in teams, as it cannot stand by itself, but could do very well in teams. The other deck would have little to no offence, other than cartain enancements that the other player could use, but the defence would be huge and I am just wondering what defense to use in that other deck, weather a combination or a very large single one. Please post below!

I like the Crown of Thorns idea, but there's one problem. Crown of Thorns decreases Evil Characters in play, not just in battle, so your Trembling Demon would be discarded before he could even block. Even if you block with him from hand the first time, he gets underdecked by Wandering, and then you use Gates to bring him back, he'll be discarded when he is sitting in territory. (Hmm, I think I just figured out a way to stall the game infinitely... )

Also, KoalaKing is correct, you would not be able to target Saul/Paul as a Hero when he is in the discard pile. He is an Evil Character by default. The philosophy trick definitely works though.

Thanks! I will change it and see what works!

Yeah, I know, but this is an endgame deck, and slow so that I can have cards that work in this circle, the purpose of the deck I am looking to play with it is to get the game to endgame as soon as possible, and I think I have another idea of getting this recurable.