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Hi Amy,

Welcome to the Boards!

First, your son should have started with an starter deck. The most recent version is a G/H. That would get him more cards that are very useful to use for the deck along with the lost souls he and a friend would need to play as well as a rulebook. I have some cards lying around and would be glad to start him out. Please email me (cybercrusadersrealm@gmail.com) with your address. Glad he's enjoying the game!

Thanks for your replies!

We did get a starter set with G and H that he and I have been playing. What I'm saying is that he didn't get any lost souls in any additional packs to be able to add more cards to that deck.

So I was wondering which sets he would have the best luck with getting additional lost souls without me wasting a bunch of money. I will check out the ones suggested.

Sure, I could just send some of those as well

amypixie, thanks for posting your question and frustration. I'm encouraged by all the positive responses of people willing to help out. It seems that you've probably gotten most of the help that you need at this point. I'd just like to attest to the trustworthiness of both Professoralstad (Jordan) and TechnoEthicist (Brad). Although we all live in different states I've met them both multiple times at Redemption events. Their intentions are honorable if you're comfortable benefiting from their generosity.

Another free piece of advice is that you really probably shouldn't put in more Lost Souls to begin with.  It is a common mistake of new players to simply put all of their cards into their deck.  This of course means that their decks get much bigger as they accumulate more cards (and they need more Lost Souls).

However, in Redemption, bigger is NOT always better.  I actually would recommend that you and your son try to keep your decks at only 56 cards (which would only need the 7 Lost Souls per deck that you already have).  Then as you get new cards out of packs that you believe are better than the cards that are already in the decks that you have, then TRADE out those cards rather than ADDING them.

In other words, if you get a good gold enhancement that you believe is better than one of the ones in the starter deck, then take out the one from the starter deck and put in the new one.  Your deck stays the same size, but gets more powerful.  If you just make the deck bigger, then you just slow down your chances of getting to your best cards (like Son of God and Angel of the Lord).

To back up Professor U here, I'd say look at some of the sample decks on this board. You'll notice that almost every single deck is at 50, 51, 52, or 56 cards unless they specify that they're not competitive decks. This is not to say that you must have a tournament-worthy deck to have fun or, honestly, to play in a tournament. But it is worth noting that almost unanimously players agree that 50-56 card decks are better than decks of other sizes.

Or are T2 decks, which are built differently.  Feel free to ignore these until you learn more about the game.  Then jump into T2 when you're ready for a challenge.