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My younger son is looking for a way to boost his deck. He's already changed the defense to Egyptian, which he likes (except against my Journey to Egypt), and is playing a Blue/Silver offense. He also doesn't have access to every card, but has a fair collection and can always borrow some from me.

I told him first step would probably to get down to 56, then beg/borrow some more SA LSs. He was impressed by the changes I made to my deck on the advice I got here, though, so he wants input from the forum.

63 cards-Blue/Silver offense, Egyptian defense

Lost Souls (8 )
Lost Souls (3 liner)
NT Only
Woman Only
Hand discard
Anti-burial
Shuffler
2 generic

Dominants (7)
SoG
NJ
AotL
GOYS
Burial
CM
DoN

Artifacts (2)
Tables of the Law
Chariot of Fire

Covenants (1)
Covenant of Noah

Curses (1)
Given Over to Egypt

Sites (3)
Egypt
Banks/Pharaoh's Court
Dragon Raid

Fortresses (2)
Pharaoh's Throne Room
WoP

Blue Heroes (5)
Abram
Ira
Jacob
Thomas
Tribal Elder

Blue GEs (4)
Chastisement of the Lord promo
Courage
Ehud's Dagger (K)
Sign of the Rainbow

Silver Heroes (6)
Angel at Jerusalem
Angel at Shur promo
Captain of the Host
Gabriel
Michael
Seraphim (bands to blue Warriors)

Silver GEs (5)
Captain's Sword
Death of Firstborn
Flaming Sword (K)
The Fourth Seal
Three Angels

Gold ECs (10)
Egyptian Archer
Eg. Charioteers
Eg. Horsemen
Evil Spawn (D)
Jannes
Huge Egyptian
KoT (W)
King Shishak
King So
Queen Tahpenes

Gold EEs (9)
Eg. Horses
Eg. Spear
Enslaved by Egypt
Mask of Fear
Moses Kills Egyptian
Pagan Sacrifices
Ruthless
Spreading Mildew
Wonders Forgotten

#1 - I agree with you that he should cut it down to 56.

#2 - I agree with Raven that he should go straight Genesis on offense and use his angels to make a 2nd deck.  But assuming that he doesn't have the FooF/RoA cards, then I would do something along the following lines.

#3  Take out ( 15 ):
Generic LS
Generic LS
Shuffler LS
Tables of the Law
Angel at Jerusalem
Abram
Chastisement of the Lord
Courage
Captain's Sword
Death of Firstborn
The Fourth Seal
Three Angels
Jannes
Egyptian Charioteers
Mask of Fear

Put in ( 8 ):
Deck Discard LS
Wanderer LS
Captured Ark
Obedience of Noah
Job Overcomes
Journey to Egypt
Baptism
Protection of Angels (priests)

Hello. I think that the deck should slim down to 56. I also recomened what 3 liner said. Now. I always have more offense then defense. this way, you can get all the good enhancements and have just enough defense to slow your opponent down. I recommened FooF. I forget which tin it is, but in some tin, they have blue/genesis heroes and enhancements. Another good card to throw in there would be the new promo for goshen. also more thing. get a falling away. next to the SoG/NJ combo it is the most important dominant. it slows your opponent down so much. More egyption cards can be found in a tin from Foof and another tin in RoA. lastly, depending on how much, capture you throw in with your egyption, you might want to throw in a Raiders camp and a card that searches for it. the deck seems pretty solid. I wish your son good luck!

I disagree about Falling Away. I almost never used it even when just GoyS was out, now with the advent of LotS I don't think any of my decks use it. It's simply a wasted card if drawn after your opponent draws GoyS or activates Lampstand.

Not a waste card for me. I use it with Philistine Outpost XD

Jon made some adjustments. He doesn't have a Captured Ark. so he put in Lying to God. Otherwise, he's trying all of the Prof's suggestions, although he was reluctant to part with Jannes when he's using PTR. I'm curious-why not use Jannes? I did find in my own Egyptian defense deck in ROOT that I need more pharaohs/kings to make PTR work, so is that the reason?

I think Jannes/Jambres is a great combo. Especially against FBTN since it can't be negated. makes them....11/12? i believe

I'd sooner take out Shishak than Jannes. I love playing Egyptian, and he's a great card to have.