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I want some help on this deck... a close version of it won regionals, but still... I don't feel it's strong enough against speed or defense-heavy decks. This version is a little better, but I'm wondering what you all think. Thanks.

Cards in deck: 56
Lost Souls: 8
Lost Soul (demon discard)
Lost Soul (Female Only)
Lost Soul (hopper)
Lost Soul (N.T. only)
Lost Soul (revealer)
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
Destruction of Nehushtan
Falling Away

Fortresses: 1
The Garden Tomb

Multi-Color Sites: 2
Dragon Raid
The Ends of the Earth

Artifacts: 6
Gifts of the Magi
Hidden Treasures
Holy Grail
Holy of Holies
Household Idols
Unholy Writ

White Heroes: 2
Mary the Mother of James
Salome

Green Heroes: 5
Hur
Joanna
Joel
Micah
Miriam

Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 3
Feast of Trumpets
First Fruits
Spiritual Warfare

White Hero Enhancements: 1
'He Is Risen'

Green Hero Enhancements: 6
A New Beginning
Plague of Frogs
Provisions
Search
Two Bears
Sword of the Lord

Pale Green Evil Characters: 2
Messenger of Satan
Women as Snares

Gray Evil Characters: 1
Sabbath Breaker

Brown Evil Characters: 2
King Zedekiah
Uzzah

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 1
Torment

Pale Green Evil Enhancements: 2
Confusion
Death of Unrighteous

Brown Evil Enhancements: 1
Dungeon of Malchiah

The offense strikes hard and fast. The defense stalls like a pathetic coward.  

Typically speed banding always stopped me, so I added unholy writ, holy of holies and household idols. When I go to nationals I'll also have haman's plot, but I'll only use that when I need it, so I can't rely on it. I don't want to drop this to 50, it's just not my style, so any help while keeping the deck size is much appreciated. Thanks.

Hidden treasures is there... unless you meant take it out? In which case I say "NO!" lol 

reply lol i missed that   

Capture has not yet been a problem with the help of ignore, choose the blocker, initiative and pre-emptive strikes.

Also, HT can get rid of pesky enhancements like confusion, shady self-discards and captures. I'm not sure how this deck would do against a stiff defense, but I think not too bad, especially with a new beginning and recursion of battle winners with Micah.

EDIT: Women as Snares is my demon killer. There are not female demons except cubus, but I'm not worried about her. 

It takes too many cards and I find a few things:

1. About 90% of decks that use demons are stand-alone defenses that I'm not worried about cause of garden tomb.
2. Women as Snares is typically enough.
3. Even when people have demons, he is risen, plague, and two bears do a lot of damage, not to mention angel of the Lord.
4. Nationals is in Minnesota, where no one uses demons. 

It takes too many cards and I find a few things:

1. About 90% of decks that use demons are stand-alone defenses that I'm not worried about cause of garden tomb.
2. Women as Snares is typically enough.
3. Even when people have demons, he is risen, plague, and two bears do a lot of damage, not to mention angel of the Lord.
4. Nationals is in Minnesota, where no one uses demons. 

I thought Nationals was in California?

How do you stop another Garden Tomb offense or your opponent banding to your TGT heroes? 

Kirk

How do you stop another Garden Tomb offense or your opponent banding to your TGT heroes?  

Kirk

Not very many people band to them, if they do, good for them.

As for stopping garden tomb, I either try to win before they can draw garden tomb or Hopefully one of my guys matches their brigade so that I can block.

EDIT: deck being edited for a way to stop garden tomb.