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David and His Mighty Men
« on: September 08, 2009, 01:40:28 AM »
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Cards in deck: 63
Lost Souls: 8
   Lost Soul (anti-ignore)
   Lost Soul (female only)
   Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   Lost Soul (revealer)
   Lost Soul (shuffler)
   Lost Soul (Speed Bump)
   Lost Soul (Wanderer)
   Lost Souls (2-line)

Lamb Dominants: 3
   Angel of the Lord
   New Jerusalem
   Son of God

Grim Reaper Dominants: 4
   Burial
   Christian Martyr
   Destruction of Nehushtan
   Mayhem

Fortresses: 6
   Jerusalem Tower
   Obadiah's Caves
   Pharoah's Throne Room
   Stronghold in the Desert
   The Throne of David
   Wall of Protection

White Sites: 1
   Herod's Dungeon

Gold Sites: 1
   Egypt

Artifacts: 3
   Chariot of Fire
   Hidden Treasures
   Ram's Horn

Gold Curse Cards: 2
   Given Over to Egypt
   Unknown Nation

Red Heroes: 3
   Adino
   Asahel
   Naharai

Green Heroes: 3
   Benaiah
   David
   Nathan

Purple Heroes: 3
   King David
   King Saul
   King Solomon

Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 1
   The Lord Fights for You (red/gold)

Red Hero Enhancements: 3
   David's Mighty Men
   United Army
   Warrior's Spear

Green Hero Enhancements: 5
   David's Music
   Plague of Frogs
   Provisions
   Search
   Two Bears

Blue Hero Enhancements: 1
   Helmet of Brass

Purple Hero Enhancements: 4
   Authority of Christ
   Drawn Out
   Royal Parade
   Unified Kingdom

Gold Evil Characters: 6
   Egyptian Wise Men
   Herod Agrippa II
   Herod Antipas
   Huge Egyptian
   King of Tyrus
   Queen Tahpenes

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 1
   Herod's Treachery

Gold Evil Enhancements: 5
   Egyptian Spear
   Enslaved by Egypt
   Evil Spirit
   Failed Objective
   Wonders Forgotten

The point of this deck is to make David a hoss. If you're able to get him out with Drawn Out, and have Caves out, he's invulnerable to everything except Removal (temporarily), Withdraw and Conversion. That, combined with his low numbers and Prophet status gives you all kinds of good plays with him. He can use basically every Enhancement in the deck, and many of them Interrupt in case you do get hit with something that can target him.

He also has his Mighty Men to back him up, with FbtNB and CTB. In addition, he's got the other two Kings associated with him on deck to draw him out, nuke some stuff, get Fortresses out, and fill out the ranks. His trusty adviser Nathan is also along for the ride, ready to bail him out if he gets Destructive Sin or a Paralysis Enhancement placed on him.

The Egyptian Defense is in there because it's compact and potent, works with Warrior's Spear to Discard more nasties from deck, and Herods are just OP anyway. I also seem to remember something about David making peace with the Egyptians, and if so, it would go with the theme, too.

This is a fun deck but I'd also like to see if I can get it to win some games. If you have any ideas (such as how to incorporate Musician's Chambers or Helmet of Brass, or a better way to Protect him from Discard) that enable me to still keep the theme, I'd like to hear them. Just basically any way I can make this deck better (and smaller) without getting rid of the fun stuff.

I've seen a lot of silly theme decks (Christmas?) and a few serious ones (Army of God), but I'd like it if I could get this one to be not just good for a theme deck, but good in general. Thanks for the advice!
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Re: David and His Mighty Men
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2009, 01:50:40 AM »
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You could use Ahimelech, Priest at Nob to put Helmet of Brass on David from your discard pile, then David could play one enhancement (or discard an evil enhancement from opponent's deck) with Hidden Treasures and play one off of Helmet of brass.
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Re: David and His Mighty Men
« Reply #2 on: September 08, 2009, 01:53:59 AM »
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I'm warry of doing that because he would serve no other purpose other than getting Helmet on David. But if I were to, what would you recommend taking out?
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Re: David and His Mighty Men
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2009, 12:15:42 AM »
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I can understand you being wary of that, I don't know if I would include it unless I added more teal, which would change the deck a little too much, but you can also use it to recur your weapons.  And I don't really know what would be best to take out for it either
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