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When I do Genesis deck w/ Angel at the Shur, I always throw in Gathering of Angels. That is risky though but somehow I always benefit from it. It might help you. Put it in and try it a few games. If it doesn't help snatch it back out lol Also you might want to take out the wanderer for the site doubler. I prefer that better with the sites. Hides them easier XD

Site decks are nasty when built well. I had the following in my Genesis & Rome deck:
Jacob's Dream [bonus with also getting rid of their access to, say, Hormah]
Journey to Egypt [bonus with ignoring Egyptians!]
Priestly Crown
Promised Land [bonus with getting to use the hand-discard soul if you don't need PL for access]

With the two good enhancements also having numbers, none of them were really dead weight against a non-site deck except Priestly Crown. A good site deck can probably deal with all four of these anyways, if they were able to keep the cards that countered them. That's one nice thing about hand discard. But still, whether you think devoting all these cards is a good choice is your decision, based on how afraid you are of site decks.

Sabbath Breaker is very handy, not just for the drawing but also the good initiative to play B's Disobedience or Chains or what have you. Another neat trick: Use Obedience of Noah to choose Sabbath Breaker to block while Rain Becomes Dust is active.

OK, let's have some fun. I'm going to make a couple of changes in the deck, and explain my thought process here, both for cards added and for suggested cards not added. I want some critique (preferably gentle) of my thought process. I know decisions are mine, and players disagree on card values, but does it seem like I'm making decisions based on legitimate criteria?

(BTW, I'm not a newbie-started playing just as Warriors/CD decks came out- but I haven't played much since just before Priests came out, so I'm a newbie on the latest card sets. So themes weren't a big deal when I last played.)

1. Replace Priestly Crown with Covenant of Noah. Gives a negation ability while sacrificing one of several site access cards. Seems like a decent trade-off. Might change my mind if I get clobbered by site lockout decks.
2. Replace King Menahem with Emperor Otho. Makes the deck more Roman, and Menahem doesn't appear to be a favorite here. The ability to grab a really good card by chance is slim, and Otho's suicide block ability could be potentially game-saving.
3. Not replace Angel at Shur with Asher. I still like Asher's ability, but AaS gives some protection from human immunity or demon defense, plus it enables Jacob's banding ability. I still might squeeze Asher in, but for whom?
4. Not replace anything with Captured Ark. OK, I just don't have a Captured Ark, but I'm not really sold on its value in this deck.
5. Not add Gathering of Angels. It might be a great card, but it doesn't seem to fit what this deck tries to do.
6. Keep Sabbath Breaker. Low numbers and draw ability. Doing this, I also keep Rain Becomes Dust just in case.
7. Keep Sarah. I need a female Genesis hero for Simeon's ability, and I plan to use Leah in order to activate her ability, so Sarah becomes my fallback female.
8. Waver on replacing Shoes of Peace with Numerous as the Stars. If I read NatS correctly, it is effectively a way to band in a hero from my deck. I like that possibility. However, Shoes fits the discard theme of the deck, and provides an enhancement for Angel at Shur to use in an emergency. I'm still thinking about this.
9. Keep Wanderer LS. This enables me to switch it for NT Only or Women Only from my opponent's LoB.
10. Replace Human in play LS with Site Doubler. Good advice to add this LS. The HIP LS really is only effective against an all-angel offense (which one of my sons plays, but I can deal with that).

Comments?

You may want to consider Rebekah instead of Sarah because most of your enhancements you want to play before your opponent plays. The one exception is perhaps Abe's Servant but that's better used with a Simeon/Levi band.

Stone Pillar is a must for this deck.

I think Captured Ark is a way better choice than Rain Becomes Dust.

Considering the growing number of NT Garden Tomb decks, Emperor Claudius wouldn't be a bad choice either.

Thanks for all the advice. I'm persuaded to make a couple more changes to get Asher, Numerous as the Stars, ans Stone Pillar into the deck. (Alas, no Captured Ark, not because it's not valuable, but because I don't currently have one.) I'll have to try it out a few times-hopefully I can hit a local sometime in the next couple of months-and see how it plays. IF all goes well, I'll post the "final" form here so everyone who gave advice can take credit for it. Although with me playing it may not be all that successful anyway. (While I was fairly well-known in the Redemption community back a ways, it was never for my playing prowess. Those of you who understand the significance of "Redemption New Jersey" know what I'm talking about.)

A quick thank you to those who insisted I include Numerous as the Stars in my deck. It has bailed my butt out twice against PotW (and would also work vs. Nero). Plus, I've used it to bring in Levi to band to Simeon, thus allowing the band to continue on subsequent turns. I too would now highly recommend this card for any Genesis offense deck.

Still looking for a Captured Ark...but the deck seems to be OK. It's biggest challenge so far was an old (pre-Priests) banding deck my wife used, It wouldn't be a viable tournament deck now with TGT and other new cards that counter spread brigades, but it gave me trouble in a couple of games with big, multiple option banding chains. Now I need to test my deck against a TGT deck, but I really don't want to build one myself. (I know they work well, and win games and tournaments, but it's just not my cup of tea.) Oh, well, locals coming up soon...

Finally got a Captured Ark. I like it! (Swapped out Unknown Nation, which I'm hoping I won't regret.) I did pretty well at my last local-tied 5-5, lost 5-3, and lost 5-1 to a player who drew only two LSs and buried one.

Two more cards I'm considering. Any advice?

1) False Peace-To grab a useful card, but in place of what?

2) Mayhem-Again, what would it replace?

Thanks!

1) False Peace-To grab a useful card, but in place of what?

2) Mayhem-Again, what would it replace?

Both are very good adds. I'd take out Mask of Fear for False Peace, and almost anything out for Mayhem. I'm a huuuuuge fan of Mayhem, I honestly think it is the 3rd best dominant.

Take out:
Wall of Protection (you'll destroy it with RDJ anyway)
Rebekah (having 1 Gen female is enough)
Mayhem (I'm just not really sold on this dom yet)

To add:
Another EC (you are light on these)
Unknown Nation (to get an EC out, or survive an AotL)
The Amelekite's Slave (to get an EC out and create a LS to save)

I thought the ECs looked lighter than I expected. (This is a cut-and-paste from RTS.) Somehow it skipped The Terrifying Beast, and it only added up to 55. Does having that restored (above) change advice at all?

I'm going with Tim on keeping Rebekah

Sure go with the advice of the guy who won Nats with a Genesis offense.  I see how you are.

I have to say I have learned more about deck building in general from this discussion as I keep reworking this deck than I did in my first 8 years of Redemption put together. (OK, I've been out of the loop for about three years, but you know what I mean.) The whole theme and concept workout has really helped. It hasn't made me PLAY any better, but at least I'm losing with better decks.

We still love you man.  Seriously though, where is the Holy Hand Grenade?