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Cards in deck: 103
Lost Souls: 14
   Lost Soul (Female Only)
   Lost Soul (Female Only)
   Lost Soul (first round)
   Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   Lost Soul (revealer)
   Lost Soul (revealer)
   Lost Soul (shuffler)
   Lost Soul (shuffler)
   Lost Soul (Shut Door)
   Lost Soul (Shut Door)
   Lost Soul (Wanderer)
   Lost Souls (2-line)
   Lost Souls (2-line)

Lamb Dominants: 5
   Angel of the Lord
   Grapes of Wrath
   Guardian Of Your Souls
   New Jerusalem
   Son of God

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

Fortresses: 6
   Assyrian Camp
   Assyrian Camp
   Obadiah's Caves
   Obadiah's Caves
   The Gates of Hell
   The Gates of Hell

Multi-Color Sites: 2
   The Ends of the Earth
   The Ends of the Earth

Artifacts: 10
   Assyria's Tribute
   Assyria's Tribute
   Burial Shroud
   Burial Shroud
   Hidden Treasures
   Hidden Treasures
   Holy Grail
   Holy Grail
   Unholy Writ
   Unholy Writ

Purple Hero Enhancements: 2
   Authority of Christ
   Authority of Christ

Pale Green Evil Characters: 12
   Assyrian Archer
   Assyrian Archer
   Assyrian Siege Army
   Assyrian Siege Army
   Assyrian Survivor
   Assyrian Survivor
   The Rabsaris
   The Rabsaris
   User of Curious Arts
   User of Curious Arts
   Women as Snares
   Women as Snares

Gray Evil Characters: 2
   Saul/Paul
   Saul/Paul

Brown Evil Characters: 4
   Gomer
   Gomer
   Uzzah
   Uzzah

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 7
   Deafening Spirit (Orange)
   Deafening Spirit (Orange)
   Destructive Sin (Orange)
   Destructive Sin (Orange)
   Satan Enters Judas (Crimson/Orange)
   Suicidal Swine Stampede (Orange)
   Suicidal Swine Stampede (Orange)

Pale Green Evil Enhancements: 12
   Achan's Sin
   Achan's Sin
   Captured by Assyria
   Captured by Assyria
   Death of Unrighteous
   Death of Unrighteous
   Divination
   Divination
   Forgotten History
   Forgotten History
   Two Thousand Horses
   Two Thousand Horses

Brown Evil Enhancements: 8
   Gibeonite Trickery
   Gibeonite Trickery
   Great Mourning
   Great Mourning
   Haman's Plot
   Haman's Plot
   Image of Jealousy
   Image of Jealousy

Saul is a 10/11 Grey Evil Character at face value.

They are, however, like Pol stated, at face value, Saul is an 10/11 Grey EC.

He probably meant Ezekiel's Stick.

Also, you play AoCP off Hidden Treasures, then I drop Assyrian Survivor from hand, what then?

Then you might get rid of one Paul through discard, but I still have another one. I'll probably add Brass Serpent as well. The main reason for using Paul over ET is Obadiah's Caves. Protection from capture is a biggie.

Completely reworked the defense. Took out Crimson and Zeke and decided to introduce orange and brown. Played one game which went swimmingly. I'm thinking about going for a heavy hand discard approach to the defense for when my opponent decks out. Any advice on how to go about that?

You missed my point. All I have to do is keep two EC's in my hand and you can't win. You don't have any way to interrupt my battle winners, so you're most likely stuck playing AoCP preblock.

Four (2 x two) bears would help you tremendously.

I'll play a couple more games and see how it goes. I'm leaning towards thinking you're right, as it would take fundamentally less cards to do that as opposed to my hand discard idea. We'll see; there are certainly pros for both avenues.

I'm taking out Ends of the Earth, as I just realized that I don't need it since Paul has access to all sites anyways. Is 100 or 105 cards better? One thing I've run into is that in all the games I've played it was several turns after my opponent decked out that I got the cards I needed to start making RAs. Would smaller be better?

I'm going to keep it at an even 100 for right now. I might boost it to 150 at some point in the future, depending. I facepalmed so hard yesterday when I realized I forgot the Charms.

How do you deal with protect forts so AOCP kills everything? Also am I missing something or do you have no orange ecs?

Convert Herod Agrippa II to a purple hero.