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whatd'ya think?Cards in deck: 50
Lost Souls: 8
   Lost Soul (anti-burial)
   Lost Soul (Color Guard)
   Lost Soul (Female Only)
   Lost Soul (hopper)
   Lost Soul (Protector)
   Lost Soul (shuffler)
   Lost Soul (Wanderer)
   Lost Souls (2-line)

Lamb Dominants: 5
   Angel of the Lord
   Guardian Of Your Souls
   Harvest Time
   New Jerusalem
   Son of God

Grim Reaper Dominants: 4
   Burial
   Christian Martyr
   Doubt
   Falling Away

Fortresses: 2
   Kingdoms of the World
   Stronghold in the Desert

Artifacts: 4
   Burial Shroud
   Chariot of Fire
   Holy Grail
   Priestly Crown

Multi-Color Heroes: 1
   Seeker of the Lost

Silver Heroes: 1
   Captain of the Host

Red Heroes: 9
   Abishai
   Amasai the Raider
   Army of Simeonites
   Caleb
   Heldai
   Jephthah
   Men of Judah
   Recruiting Officer
   Zalmon

Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 1
   The Stars

Red Hero Enhancements: 6
   Battle Cry
   Book of Gad the Seer
   Counsel of Abigail
   Holy Ground
   The Battle is the Lord's
   Warrior's Spear

Crimson Evil Characters: 1
   Seven Sons of Sceva

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 4
   Corrupted (Orange)
   Evil Armor (Orange)
   Sinning Hand (Orange)
   Two Possessed by Demons (Orange)
Orange Evil Characters:4
        Prince of this World
        King of tyrus
        trembling Demon
        Seven Wicked Spirits

Take out Jacob for Ira (kings) and take out one of the red RoA guys for Benaiah (kings).  That gives you more tough fbtn banding.

You should try to fit in The Might of Faith and/or Holy Ground.

IMO you should use more battle winners, not just banding and negates.  The banding may work against some defenses, but you'll come up against some decks you have to attack the traditional way (with battle winners).  Freedom and Baggage are usually the best, even just those two would help.  Also consider taking out some of your non-banding Red heroes and adding in small NT heroes.  Honestly I think your banding chain is a bit excessive.  You only need 3 or 4 heroes max to win most rescue attempts, and while having more can make it easier to get a chain out quickly, I wouldn't use all the banding heroes you have available. Heldai > Abishai > Caleb > Men of Judah > Army of Simeonites is simply a lot bigger than necessary, unless you plan to go up against a lot of Philistine banding defenses. 

Take out Heldai at least, as he can only band to Abishai.  I'd also take out Zalmon if I were you, he doesn't serve much of a useful purpose.  I'd add some NT heroes, Chloe if you want a female or Epaphras if you don't, and maybe take out Recruiting Officer for Spy.  I'd also take out The Stars and Counsel of Abigail for Freedom! and Baggage.  Honestly, I think you should bump it up to 56 cards and have 7 Evil Characters and 7 Evil Enhancements, it will almost always work better.

Summary:
Out:
Heldai
Zalmon
Recruiting Officer
The Stars
Counsel of Abigail

In:
Chloe
Epaphras
Spy
Freedom!
Baggage
3 Evil Characters
3 Evil Enhancements

If I were you I'd choose one brigade for defense and use that, orange will work fine if you want to do that.

well I tried a bunch of battle winners and no banding but didnt work out my big banding and tiny but strong defense has done exceptionally well surprisingly

Which is why I'm saying you should use banding and a few battle winners.  As you're not using FBTN banding most of the time, even having a battle winner will help from time to time when you're banding.  Your defense may be tiny but strong, but a 15-card defense is going to be MUCH stronger than a 9-card one.