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After working on my three main tournament decks, I've finally started working on my site lock deck.  I originally never intended it for tournament (due to lack of willingness to rip HP's) but now wouldn't mind trying it a couple of rounds.

So, here we go.

Cards in deck: 63
Lost Souls: 8
   Lost Soul (*/4)
   Lost Soul (Color Guard)
   Lost Soul (deck discard)
   Lost Soul (Female Only)
   Lost Soul (Site Discard)
   Lost Soul (site doubler)
   Lost Soul (site guard)
   Lost Soul (site remove)

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

Grim Reaper Dominants: 3
   Burial
   Christian Martyr
   Destruction of Nehushtan

Fortresses: 3
   Judge's Seat
   Storehouse
   Stronghold in the Desert

Red Sites: 4
   Babylon
   Babylon
   Babylon
   Lion's Den

Green Sites: 2
   Babylonian Banquet Hall
   Samaria

Blue Sites: 1
   Hormah

Purple Sites: 1
   Pergamum

Artifacts: 1
   Windows of Narrow Light

White Covenant Cards: 1
   Plagued with Diseases (Brown)

Blue Covenant Cards: 1
   Covenant of Noah

Red Heroes: 3
   Adino
   Amasai the Raider
   Barak

Gold Heroes: 5
   Deborah
   Ehud
   Elon
   Ibzan
   Othniel

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

Red Hero Enhancements: 3
   Adino's Spear
   David's Mighty Men
   Freedom!

Gold Hero Enhancements: 5
   Ehud's Dagger
   Mary's Prophetic Act
   Samson's Sacrifice
   Shibboleth
   Sword against Sword

Brown Evil Characters: 9
   Complainers
   Covenant Breakers
   Haman (promo)
   King Omri
   King Zedekiah
   Persian Presidents
   Sanballat
   The Jeering Youths
   Uzzah

Brown Evil Enhancements: 9
   Broken Cisterns
   Desolate Gateways
   Dungeon of Malchiah
   Face of Death
   Land Purchase
   Stiff-Necked
   Taking Naboth's Vineyard
   Threatened Lives
   Zeresh Advises Haman

First thing everyone will notice is....."NO HAMAN'S PLOT?!?!?!?!?!"  I will never use it in tournaments because of the ripping part mainly because most of the time, Haman's Plot is the only card I have/receive from packs that is worth trading (basically, it's my currency ).

I know that my defense has a huge lack of battle winners.  However, since this is a site-lock, I included ways to make sure they can't get to my lost souls.

I'm tempted to put Zeresh in my deck (since I'll have Haman) but don't know who I would get out.

I originally had the offense pure red but after facing a judges offense at the last tournament (and that I'll be getting tin 18 for my Sadducee deck anyways), I thought I'll try to make another splash (for a guy who likes mono offense/defense, only one of my decks will now have a mono offense ).

I first had some disease cards to go along with Face Of Death in case I didn't have my curse up in time.  However, I exchange those out for cards that are meant for site-lock decks (like Vineyard).  I am thinking of getting rid of Face of Death and Plagued with Diseases but just can't get myself to miss out on the fun of that combo.  Should I keep it or not?

Wit Stronghold, the reason why I have it is because 1) I can protect my red heroes until I'm ready to fight with them and 2) I can see the fun of destroying their defense with Judges seat then using stronghold to kick them when their down .  I might take it out after a couple of runs with this deck.

Any advise will be helpful.

As always, please give me your reasons for swapping cards.  I do take some time figuring out each cards and would need to know your logic to see why your choice would work better with this deck.

God Bless

I actually decided not to use Athaliah because with all the different types of offense and the fact that no one has purple yet in my playgroups, I don't see the point of having her in my deck instead of some other EC.

Thanks for helping .

Anyone else?  I especially would like some advise on the offense side.