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1   Lost Soul (Punisher) (FoM)
1   Lost Soul "Lawless" (Hebrews 12: (CoW AB)
1   Lost Soul (Wanderer) (FoM)
1   Lost Soul (Prosperity)
1   Lost Soul (Imitate)
1   Lost Soul (Dull)
1   Lost Soul "Open Hand" (Hebrews 4:13) (CoW AB)

1   Son of God "Manger" (Promo)
1   The Second Coming
1   Three Woes (RoJ AB)
1   Ride on Victoriously / Awesome Things (LoC)
1   Angel of the Lord (J)
1   Chronicles of the Kings (LoC Plus)
1   Mayhem (FoM)

1   Threshing Floor (LoC)
1   Land of Moab (LoC)
1   Damascus  (Promo)

1   Book of the Covenant (PoC)
1   Endless Treasures
1   Unsuccessful (PoC)

1   Kinsmen's Agreement
1   Naomi's Blessing / Heartbroken (LoC)
1   Fifth Seal (Justice Seekers) (RoJ AB)

1   David, Heart After God / David, the Contrite (LoC)
1   Elders of the City (J)
1   Boaz' Foreman (LoC)
1   Boaz, the Redeemer / Boaz, the Kind (LoC)
1   Ruth, the Redeemed / Ruth, the Devoted (LoC)
1   Jesse, the Ephrathite / Jesse, the Root (LoC)
1   Obed, the Servant / Obed, the Gift (LoC)
1   Salmon, the Cloaked / Salmon, the Peaceful (LoC)
1   Rahab, the Defender / Rahab, the Proselyte (LoC)
1   Angel from the Sun (RoJ AB)
1   Justin Martyr (RoJ)

1   Boaz' Offspring (LoC)
1   Solomon's Dream (LoC)
1   Ruth's Vow (LoC)
1   Royal Parade (LoC)
1   Your God Will Be My God (LoC)
1   Overcome! (RoJ AB)
1   Blood of the Lamb (RoJ AB)
1   Ruth Meets Boaz (J)

1   The Deceiver (RoJ)
1   The Lying Prophet
1   Foreign Wives
1   Pagan Sailors
1   Persian Horsemen / Persian Horses
1   The Afflicted

1   Lurking (Promo)
1   Hypocrisy (EC)
1   Death of Unrighteous (FoM)
1   Famine in the Land (LoC)
1   Scattered

Reserve:
1   Wasting Disease (PoC)
1   Confusion (CoW AB)
1   Lacking Prophecy
1   Covenant with David (PoC)
1   You Will Remain
1   Reap the Whirlwind
1   Elimelech (LoC)
1   Profane Daughters
1   Flying Scroll (PoC)
1   Return the Captives (LoC)

This is a Ruth deck paired with the "Bounce Defense" that Gabe posted a while back. In a handful of games, the deck has done pretty well. I have yet to be able to use the bounce cards on the opponent, as they never keep enough heroes down in the few games I have played with it, but it helps for bouncing your own as needed.

This deck is paired with a martyr package to use as an early rescue while you set up your devastating Ruth band using Salmon. I use Angel from the Sun to get a D2 exchanging to Justin Martyr grabbing Blood of the Lamb and backing him up with Overcome and all of the other Ruth/white enhancements that he can play effectively. When you use Blood of the Lamb it's a D3 and paly next so using that to go into an Overcome! to take out a single blocker is effective. Fifth Seal is in here to have in the discard pile so JM can keep recurring Blood of the Lamb. So while you are doing that, you are gathering the resources for your Ruth offense to take hold. And with You Will Remain, you hit one solid rescue and if needed, use You Will Remain to bring in the other to extend the battle or start a new one. These pair pretty well together while the defense does enough to make things difficult on your opponent. Sneaking a Confusion or Flying Scroll to hit 2 of your opponent's cards is always nice. Kinsmen's Agreement is pretty much always used as an EE to back up one of those plays. The offense has plenty of other negates.

Whom and how do you use as meek guys to make Salmon's band most effective? (Also toying around with Ruth in Rotation and LoC but did not yet find out a consistent repeatable way to make him rolling the bands over and over again.)

Ruth is terribly dependent on bouncing to create meek heroes when you want them.

I also fail to see why you don't run Word of their testimony in reserve. Card is incredible

I have Distressing People splashed in my Ruth/Moabites LoC only deck to go along with Famine in the Land.  Not sure if that's a good option for Rotation unless you're really focusing on hand discard.