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Overall, great deck.  Very solid.  Excellent card selection. 

Here are my suggestions based on experience.

Swap Melchizedek out for Ethiopian Treasurer.  You need access to the NT Only LS and ET is too good not to use in a purple offense.  I tried playing "royalty" without him too but found that I missed him too much.

Swap out Pentecost for Unified Kingdom.  Don't get me wrong, Pentecost isn't bad, in fact I love that card, but UK is better for this deck.  It's great when you get to play first with ET or TToD.  It gets around WoP to bring in your opponent's Heroes.  It usually wins me a soul and can be recurred with Lemuel.

Swap out Snare for Deluge of Rain.  Capture is one of the most easily stopped battle winners and you've already got a lot.  Deluge of Rain works great with Naaman and Sabbath Breaker or a Lying Spirit banded to your opponent's EC.

Swap out Promised Land for Dragon Raid.  You're playing purple so you don't need to fear Pergamum.  Why limit yourself to 2 accesses instead of unlimited access?

I've tried having a Lost Soul configuration that doesn't include the Female Only and NT Only Souls and I'm rarely happy without them.  The trouble that most offenses have accessing those 2 souls goes a long way towards helping a defense.  They're simply too good not to use.

Go Into Captivity might be better than Unholy Writ because it can capture angels and you have 5 warrior class ECs to use it with.

First, thanks for seriously considering and trying out the recommendations I gave you.   I don't take time to give advice on peoples decks very often due to the large time investment that too often gets a response like "lol, your advize stinx and my dek is awesome alredy, k, thx, bye".  It's encouraging to see someone that's open to good advice. + 1 you!

Regarding Pentecost, if you really want it in there you could remove a purple enhancement.  Glittering Sword is probably the least useful to this offense (behind Coat of Mail which is necessary for the TToD plan).  As I mentioned previously, I'm a huge fan of Pentecost and use it in a lot of my decks.  I just don't see it helping this offense as much as another battle winner would.  This offense is a normal size offense.  It's not super fast or large.  It can take a little time to set up.  There's only one way to generate a Lost Soul (Night Raid).  No Hopper, Harvest Time, Amelakite's Slave, etc.  A true speed deck needs many ways to produce souls in the opponent's LoB and usually has a large offense (10 Heroes or more).  To make this a "speed" deck would take a reworking but that's not really necessary.  It looks really good the way you made it and it should work really well for you as is.

One other change I think would be helpful.  Remove I Am Redemption for Capture Ark.  You shouldn't have to worry much about captures unless they're Artifacts (Writ or GiC) since you'll often be playing first and you have plenty of interrupt/negates.  Capture Ark will clear those before you RA and it's also useful against a number of other cards that might be annoying to your deck.

take out coF for pentacost.

ET for Prince Jonathan. I have won several games for the sole fact that I can band two guys into battle and avoid cm.

widow for queen of sheba. Trust me, when you draw King Lemuel, you'll wish that you had more female royalty.

That should be good. I'll post again if I think of more stuff.

Hey, I thought of a beastly combo: TToD up - RA any OT purple king (preferably with Coat of Mail just in case) - Peace Treaty to band in ET - play anything you want! I'm sure tons of people have already seen this, but I like to point out everything I find.

This Defense has a bit of capture in it already - enough for me to get by; and besides, I don't want to base a defense completely on capture, and that's exactly what that is (except for BD). I mean, what would I do against a Z Temple deck or Melchizidek or something? Hazael won't be able to cover it, because my opponent will probably just keep discarding artifacts, and I can't always use Naaman with his Chariot to capture. Maybe self-capture could be an option, but I think that would be best left to Assyrians.

Just curious... are you trying to copy me? Cause this is my current, deck, with gray self capture... weird...

cof for HT. If you don't want to take it out... that's fine. Although with Lemuel... hm... maybe take out another art... I didn't check enough... did you have coM?