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I really wanted to find a way to make a Tabernacle & Tabernacle Artifact theme deck. I have been working on this deck for a couple days, and I think I finally came up with a 56 card version I like. See what you think of this...

Eleazar, son of Aaron
Eli the Priest
Ithamar, son of Aaron
Phinehas, son of Eleazar
Priests of Christ
  Burning Incense
  Jehoiada's Strength
  Zadok Anoints Solomon
  Zeal for the Lord

Benaiah
  Habakkuk Stands Watch
  Provisions
  Spiritual Warfare

Jeremiah
Zechariah
__________

Demon Behind the Idol
Evil Spawn
King of Tyrus
Seven Wicked Spirits
Spirit of Temptation
Wandering Spirit
  Deafening Spirit
  Evil Armor
  Sinning Hand
  Two Possessed by Demons
  Worshipping Demons

Astrologers
Damsel with Spirit of Divination
  Divination

Gomer (Brown)

Seven Sons of Sceva
__________

Captured Ark

Altar of Incense
The Bronze Laver
Hidden Treasures
Lampstand of the Sanctuary
Magic Charms
The Silver Trumpets
Urim and Thummim
__________

The Gates of Hell
The Tabernacle

Pergamum
__________

Angel of the Lord
Glory of the Lord
Grapes of Wrath
New Jerusalem
Son of God

Christian Martyr
__________

Hopper

Female
Color Guard
Shuffler
Wanderer
NT
Revealer
Demon Discard

Doesnt seem like it would ... fend off 5 rescue attempts ...

I thought the defense looked pretty solid myself.

I would recomend adding Josh. the 7/8 even though he is not a tabernacle priest he would help ALOT.

I have enough CBN as it is I think (oxymoron?), especially considering I probably will be playing both Spiritual Warfare and Burning Incense before battle. Ideally, I will only really need to make 2 actual rescues, since I have SoG, NJ, AotL, and Lampstand.

You should also add a destruction.

The object of my offense is to get Tabernacle and Lampstand out as early as possible, so no thank you. I'm on the edge with Captured Ark though. It would be nice, especially seeing it depicts an idol.

HSW is in there mainly for site access when I need it.

HSW runs into problem when weapons appear. If that extra bit about weapons was not there, I would use it in a heart beat. However, that little bit ruins the card for me, because it can turn into wasted space in a second.

Well, I don't even care that much about shuffling EC's.

I would suggest adding Deafening Spirit as well. It is a really good negate, and if you use it when Wandering Spirit is in battle (which, you will find, he will be often with a demon defense) then you can put it on the bottom of your deck if it gets discarded somehow during battle (or even perhaps during battle resolution...I should find that out). Either way, I think it could be very helpful.

Also, I've tried Madness a few times, and I've never found it to be very helpful: it rarely seemed to be activated at the right time. But I guess it's up to you.

Tartaros is mainly there for the demon discarder and Demon behind the Idol. I don't think it really conflicts with Wandering Spirit, because I can only take out one demon at a time anyway. I suppose it probably isn't doing much though...I think that's what I'll take out for Deafening Spirit, which I never realized went so well with Wandering Spirit.

I would really like to avoid taking out Madness, but anything I could do to reduce my artifact pile a little would probably be a good thing. In fact, I was thinking of putting in Elymas (or maybe Enchanter if I get rid of Tartaros) and Damsel and taking out Unholy Writ for Magic Charms. What do you think about that?

Personally, I think grey/orange is my new favorite defense... however, I don't know if a true grey/orange would fit in this. Regardless, WS banded to Spirit of Temptation banded to Elymas = funny.

+TGoH...tee-hee. Yeah, I figure stable Grey just isn't going to fit at this point, seeing as the best part of Orange-Grey is Proud Pharisee, and I only have like 3 battle-winners (most of which I can set up to be play-first'ed with Evil Spawn anyway).

If you were to add Deafening Spirit, i'd swap it for Evil Armor.

No way, I'm keeping that for sure. It's awesome combined with DbtI. With all the banding though, it would be nice to have both of these. If anything, I'd like to take out an artifact or two to do this.

Quote from: BubbleBoy on February 26, 2010, 11:46:23 AM

seeing as the best part of Orange-Grey is Proud Pharisee

And legions, and Shadow, and False Priests, and Elymas... 

I don't understand why Legion, Shadow, or False Priests would be better combined with demons.

Alright, I made a few major changes to the deck. See what you think now.

If I actually wanted to do that, I could just replace Astrologers with brown Enchanter...but I don't, so...