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You have a lot a artifacts. And I would suggest to add more heros.

I'd take out 2 artifacts: Writ, The Bronze Laver, and/or Gifts. I don't think you need more heroes though.

Women as Snares seems counter productive to Susanna, Divination, and Hormah. I'd probably drop her or add in another soul and dominant (probably Mayhem), dropping something. But probably drop her.

I'd probably drop Chaldeans for A New Covenant.

I'd drop Magician's Snakes for Achan's Sin, and then drop 1st Round or Revealer for Cannot be Prevented. Probably Revealer.

made some changes.  i dont see a problem with all the artifacts, many are only 1-2 uses, charms can be placed and lampstand goes in the fort so i dont think it will get too clogged.  i wanted women of snares to help clear the way for garden tomb, but i agree she is counterproductive, im just afraid of running into too much of a defense or demons without her now

At Natz, the only defense you're likely to encounter will be diminutive or Magicians who have Charm anyway...

...unless you play me

the deck that won nationals used more of a defense than usual, so im guessing that more people will be using more defense, so i dont see any harm in putting in a few more cards to be prepared.  what arts could i take out really?  i dont see anything that i could spare other than maby a new cov but i can search for that so it wont cause so much of a clog

the deck that won nationals used more of a defense than usual

No, he just didn't use a splash defense. The overall size was the same. Furthermore, Pharisees practically beg to get converted, so all those converts are still encumbered slots.

@Prof, o_0 Both full Herods and full Genesis are both absolutely enormous, how on earth did you get both, and extra defense, and an offense, into a 63 card deck?

Depends on the situation. I find that the most common way to win battles right now is massive banding while negating evil characters. This is used in The Deck, Disciples (James to John or Other James to Thaddeus), and FBTNB. This makes mass killers like Achan's Sin better than immunity cards like Snakes. Magicians' Snakes tends to be worse because A. You need initiative, forcing you into a particular situation before you play it, making you vulnerable. B. They aren't likely to play a battle winner anyway, given the meta, so your immunity doesn't do much. C. The protection from Dominants is meaningless, because they aren't going to give you initiative and then play Angel of the Lord. Grapes of Wrath is the only other alternative, and that can be played on Magician's Snakes to get a slightly lesser benefit. Achan's Sin is a great way to cripple your opponent, and is tough to stop when you have the Cannot be Prevented lost soul.

sorry for the necro-bump, but recently started using this deck again and found myself a card slot short, but i have no idea what to put it.  was thinking something like a new cov or cov with palestine, holy of holies, bronze laver, or something to help the defense, but idk what...any advice?

You have 7 EC and 7 EE, but 2 of your EC can't play your enh and are either an auto block (Uzzah) or passing to someone who can play your enh (TAS).  My suggestion is to add more EC.

Maybe it's just me, but I don't see why you need Lampstand all that much.  If you drop it and Herod's Temple, you could add 2 EC (which you need).

Definitely drop either the revealer or the site doubler and get the CBP lost soul in here.  Personal choice would be the site doubler - lots of ways for your opponent to generate his own souls, and hopefully you'll be drawing lots of cards and won't be able to keep your LoB empty with Hormah.  Revealer, however, is fun to play to mess with your opponent

I'm personally not a huge fan of Divination, so I would suggest taking that out for Magician's Snakes.  Immunity may not remove their offense like Achan's Sin (which you should definitely keep), but it can still win the battle, which is what you need to do.

I like Mayhem more than Grapes, and I think in a deck like this that is fairly dependent on a couple key cards, using Mayhem after dropping your hand <6 can be a great way to cycle through and possibly snag what you need, as well as speed up your deck a little.