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Cards in deck: 56
Lost Souls: 7
   Lost Soul (*/4)
   Lost Soul (can't be prevented)
   Lost Soul (Female Only)
   Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   Lost Soul (revealer)
   Lost Soul (shuffler)
   Lost Souls (3-line)

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

Grim Reaper Dominants: 5
   Burial
   Christian Martyr
   Destruction of Nehushtan
   Falling Away
   Mayhem

Fortresses: 3
   High Places
   House in Bethany
   Storehouse

Multi-Color Sites: 1
   The Ends of the Earth

Blue Sites: 1
   Hormah

Artifacts: 5
   Burial Shroud
   Darius' Decree
   Gifts of the Magi
   Samaritan Water Jar
   Temple Veil

Purple Covenant Cards: 1
   Covenant of Palestine

Gold Heroes: 7
   Elisabeth
   Martha
   Mary of Bethany
   The Generous Widow
   The Thankful Leper
   The Woman at the Well
   Zaccheus

Gold Hero Enhancements: 7
   Battle Prayer
   Convincing Miracle
   Fishers of Men
   Mary's Prophetic Act
   Meeting the Messiah
   Repentance and Restitution
   Thrown into the Sea

Black Evil Characters: 3
   Greek Philosophers
   Greek Scholars
   Lot's Wife

Multi Evil Characters: 2
        The Winged Leopard (black/orange)
        Antiochus IV Epiphanes (black/gray)

Gray Evil Characters: 3
   Emperor Nero
   Proud Pharisee
   The Entrapping Pharisees

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 1
   Just a Hireling (black/gray)

Black Evil Enhancements: 4
   Abomination of Desolation
   Devourer
   Hunger
   Joseph in Prison

Gray Evil Enhancements: 3
   Balaam's Disobedience
   Deceptive Sin
   Pretension

1) I just realize I have Hormah .  Should I keep it or trade it for something else?

2) Please let me know of any suggestions you have (and the reason behind them).

God Bless

Is there a reason you're playing Black/Grey and don't have Antiochus?

Apparently the summary took him and the greek demon off of the list.  I have both of them.

Since you don't use any capture yourself, I would swap I am Redemption for Blue Tassels. That's just a style preference tho, (reactive vs proactive), both can be effective.

I like I Am Redemption better since it does the same thing as Blue Tassels but it also return all your heroes that were captured before you activate the artifact.

Anything else?

I Am Redemption doesn't help you at all during battle. It isn't nearly the same. I would also recommend Blue Tassels.

Wow.    I've been playing it wrong this whole time.  I though it had a second part saying prevent capture.  Well... I'll defently change it now

You may have been thinking of Cov-o-Palestine, which is not as good because it's a prevent.

Yea, that's what I was thinking of.  Even though it's just a prevent, I still don't mind risking going against a CBN capture and the next turn get them back compared to having something else active/get captured/have no way to get them back.

Yeah, the worst capture cards are the ones that end up being CBN, otherwise you can just use negates like any other battle-winner.

I LOVE this deck, I just think the defense needs to be beefed up. Maybe lighten up the heroes/good enhs 1 or 2 a piece so you have 3-4 spots for more defense. Then you could take out House of Bethany, Hormah, Temple Veil, and Gifts of the Magi, all for more defense. That way you can just A-bomb your way to victory.

House Of Bethany goes with my heroes (especially against demons )

Temple Veil is my site access artifact (I played a sitelock deck at Natz so I know that relying on just one site isn't good)

Gifts Of The Magi let's me draw crazy since a lot of good Luke cards makes your opponent draw and why should they be the only ones to benefit

Hormah I do want to take out.  I'm not sure what to replace it with, though.

Also, in my RL deck, I have Go Into Captivity instead of Darius' Decree.  Should I switch my RTS deck back to that or keep the artifacts the way they are?

I added the two missing evil characters and corrected my covenant.

I tested my RL version against a Kings/Syrian deck I made for some one and learned that Antiochus IV Epiphanes is quite nasty at the end game