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Offense

Elishama
Jehoram
Joshua
Joiada
  Filling ZT
  Jehoiada's Strength
  Trumpet Blast
  Zeal for the Lord

King David
King Jehoshaphat
Mephibosheth
  AoCP
  Peace Treaty
  Reach of Desperation
  Unified Kingdom

Melchizidek
  Pentecost

Defense

The Amalekites' Slave
Complainers
Haman
King Jeroboam I
King Nadab
King Zedekiah
Unclean Spirit
Uzzah
  Dungeon of Malchiah
  Gibeonite Trickery
  Haman's Plot
  Korah's Rebellion
  Stiff-Necked

Artifacts/Curses

Book of the Law
Chariot of Fire
Holy of Holies
Lampstand of the Sanctuary
The Silver Trumpets

Confusion of Mind
Unknown Nation

Fortresses/Sites

Wall of Protection
Zerubbabel's Temple

Dragon Raid
Promised Land

Hormah

Dominants

AotL
NJ
SoG

Burial
CM
DoN
FA

Lost Souls

Site Doubler
2-Line
Female
Shuffler
Exchanger
NT
Revealer

I thought this offense idea would be fun to try. My main strategy is basically to use Elishama and Jehoram to reuse stuff from the discard pile: Jehoiada's Strength on Joshua, Peace Treaty on Jehoshaphat, Unified Kingdom on David, etc. Any advice on improvements would be appreciated.

Does he need Scapegoat? It's not reusable, and he has Reach, Zeal, and Jehoiada's Strength for interrupts. J's Strength is especially cool in this offense, since just by banding there's a good shot at a battle winner being included, as if it weren't awesome enough. I would rather Royal Parade if he wanted another interrupt, but it's probably not necessary in his offense.

I've tried this sort of thing with Teal and Red right after Priests came out, because that gives me three placers (with Jahaziel), and Red has awesome EC-killers (Freedom!, Jael's Nail, Power of the Cross, etc.) that are still effective pre-block. I think it should work just fine with Purple too, though, especially with Jehoshaphat's banding to two placers.

I suggest adding Holy of Holies (KoT and friends are a huge pain when trying to place stuff) and The Silver Trumpets (free banding is excellent here, as noted with J's Strength above). You can do without Moses/Cov of Moses, it doesn't feel like it belongs.

I would really like to get this deck in working order, 'cause I think I want to use this as my main deck.

Little to no way? Tribal Elder says otherwise. Wall protects your defense as well, though, and with one-hit-wonders like Uzzah that may end up having to be put in your territory rather than discarding an enhancement, or killer abilities such as Haman that will most likely survive one or more battles, keeping you're opponent's grabby hands off them can be a major plus.

I'm going to continue to argue against the Wall... Tribal Elder is one card and is not a staple in speed or blue decks anymore.  The only decks you ever see it in is BBN that's objective is to band to captain.  As far as the defensive side, brown does not have a protection fortress, therefore you will not be laying down your EC's as generously unless you face a TGT deck (which usually plays with a multicolored defense...).  With so many defenses being based on cultures, there is very little banding available to other brigades.  I'm not arguing that Wall is useless, there will be some games you play where it might be nice to have it, but with no way to get it out quickly, the chances that it will be useful are little.
Where as a card like Moses, will be used in over 50% of your games, guaranteed.