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Though it should be implied by now, know that I haven't tested this deck yet. It's not even built; this is a concept based on Red's Noah/Egypt deck with updates. Since I've only ever run Flood with animals and am only passingly familiar with how modern Egyptians play, suggestions and advice are most welcome. As always.

Lost Souls: 7
Jim
Escape
Awake
Lawless
Imitate
Dull
Prosperity

Doms: 7
SoG
TSC
AotL
ANB
3 Woes
CM
FA (w)

Arts/Forts/Sites: 5
Book of the Covenant
Magic Charms
Unknown Nation
Noah’s Ark (p)
Egypt

Heroes: 9
The Angel of the Winds
Noah
Noah’s Wife
Shem
Shem’s Wife
Japheth
Japheth’s Wife
Ham
Ham’s Wife

GE: 6
Faith
Faith of Noah
Eve’s Descendant (PoC)
Abraham’s Descendant
Faith Among Corruption
The Dove Returns

DAC: 2
7 Years of Plenty
Forbidden Fruit

EC: 9
The Deceiver
Egyptian Army
Taskmaster
Egyptian Charioteers
The Hard-Hearted Pharaoh
The Murderous Pharaoh
Jannes
Jambres
Egyptian Magicians

EE: 5
Envy
Abandonment
Egyptian Horses
Reclaimed by Egypt
Turn to Egypt


Reserve: 10
Covenant with Adam
The Rainbow
RTC
Faith of Isaac
Outsiders (B/G)
Uzzah
Evicted
No Straw!
Moses Kills Egyptian
Sun Worship

Even with the nerf, I would still probably run Besieging the City.

Agreed, there's no way I don't include BtC in a Gold defense. 

Kinda surprised there's no Swift Horses or Wonders Forgotten either.

Any consideration to Pharaoh's Throne Room as a way to make The Flood more one-sided? 

With ANB's reset power, have you considered dropping FBTN LS and going harder into additional up-front value LS?  Darkness, Open Hands, etc.

Also, which version of Noah's Ark do you see yourself using?

I'll second Guardian's point - in my experience Flood is very much about making sure you can get Ark and Noah turn one as consistently as possible. To that end, my current Flood build runs Winds, Faith o Sarah, and Covenant of Eden for Noah and Faith of Noah, Two by Two, and Pitch & Gopher Wood for Ark, as well as 7 Years of Plenty and I am Creator in reserve with Forbidden Fruit, I am Gabe, and Book of the Covenant (for IaC) to grab them. This gets me both on turn one about 70% of the time (estimated), and at least one almost every game. My initial build also included Nimrod, although he got cut when I switched defenses from the generic PG I ran before PoC launched. Three is solid, but four is better, especially since many of them can either be flexible or stay out of your draws and in reserve if they're dead.

I also swapped Faith of Isaac for Jospeh's Silver Cup since it's basically the same effect more times, but ymmv (especially since you have other arts you want up every turn). I might swap Sun Worship for YWR - while it's a fun idea I don't think it's actually a very valuable card, and between Book and Forbidden Fruit it's not a difficult reserve pull, and it's something you definitely want to include since Shem's Wife can be a battlewinner when added to battle.