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The deck is currently a 63 to assure that it can "outlast" if I'm lucky enough to even get dead locked with them.

I'm not set at all on the defense (in fact I'm a little bit insecure about it if anything). I just threw in Crimson for its ability to destroy fortresses so Trumpet and Sword can have maximum effect.

There are lots of holes in the deck, feel free to shoot it up...

Dominants (10)
SoG
NJ
AotL
GoW
GoYS
HT

CM
BR
DoN
FA

Artifacts (4)
Chariot of Fire
Holy Grail
Ram's Horn (non-negotiable, I love it!)
Unknown Nation

Fortresses (3)
Headquarters at Ribliah
Wall of Protection
Satan's Seat

Lost Souls (7)
Two-Liner
NT Only
Female Only
Site Doubler
Revealer
Shuffler
Exchanger

Sites (4)
Babylon
Babylon
Babylon
Babylonian Banquet Hall


Red Heroes (6)
Nahari
Spy
Jael
Asahel
Centurian @ Calvary
Centurian @ Capernaum

Red Enhancements (7)
David's Triumph
David's Mighty Men
Freedom
Jael's Nail
The Might of Faith
Warrior's Spear
A Soldiers Prayer

Teal Characters (2)
Phineas
Ahimaaz

Teal Enhancements (1)
Zeal for the Lord

Multi Enhancements (3)
Sabbath
Trumpet and Sword (Red/Teal)
Passover and Unleavened Bread (Red/Teal)

Crimson Characters ( 8 )
Nebushasban
Nergalsharezer
Arioch
Nebby'
King Merodach-baladin
Babylonian Forces
Gomer
Zimri

Crimson Enhancements ( 8 )
Nebby's Pride
Belshazzar's Banquet
Head of Gold
Carried into Exile
Set Fire
Axe
Dream
Swift Horses

Hi Joey,

Good to see you active in Redemption again. I hope this means that we will see you at Nationals this year!

You should cut the deck down to 56 cards. You can do that by taking out:

Wall of Protection
Stan's Seat
3 Good Enhancements
1 Evil Character
1 Evil Enhancement

For Dominants you're missing Mayhem. It's one of the best (if not the best) cards in the game.

You only have 7 Lost Souls. That's not a problem if you cut back to 56, but if you don't you need to add one to make your deck legal. In a Site deck I'm a big fan of "LS (deck discard) Hosea 13:2" and "LS (site discard) I Corinthians 1:27".

For the Heroes I'm surprised not to see Abishai (ki) since he can band to both Centurions. He's better than Jael or Nahari. Caleb (FooF) is also pretty good in this deck thanks to Goliath.

David's Mighty Men is a weak link on defense. Centurion's Proclamation is better than a lot of the enhancements you're using. It should be on that list somewhere.

On defense Arioch and the non-Babylonians might not be the best fit. Astrologers & Chaldeans are both Babylonian would allow you to include Magic Charms (pretty amazing if you haven't used it). If you're going to sway the non-Babylonian direction then Red Dragon is still good, although not what he used to be. Judas is also effective against his good counterparts (the Disciples) but that changes the direction of your defense.

Axe isn't all it's cracked up to be in my experience. Midianite Attack is still one of crimsons best EEs. That reminds me that Leviathan is still amazing too. Especially when Nebby can search for him. Large Tree could help you search out your BBH to get that faster. Set Fire is nice but it rarely wins games.

There's a bunch of seemingly random thoughts for you to work with. Hopefully that can give you some direction though.

Gabe: You only have 7 Lost Souls. That's not a problem if you cut back to 56, but if you don't you need to add one to make your deck legal.

 
                              


That was an embarassing mistake (Men In Black memory wipe) what? see there are 8 lost souls 
Proof that I can't do anything in a hurry and do it correctly, guess in the battle of Joey's brain the tortes beats the hair. 

Thanks a ton for the advice! It helps give me some ideas to bounce around!

Thaddeus isn't great in T1. Good, not great. With Merodach Baladin and Leviathan in there, you should be fine. T2, he's a monster.

The most common defenses now are N.T. and use Caesarea Philipi, a N.T. site that is protected from you and protects N.T. evil characters from discard. It isn't easy to get rid of...it's almost impossible...despair.

Zimri is meh just because there are so many prevent/negate characters or interrupt the battles. It's ridiculous. You basically are giving them inish with him.

Banding for the sake of banding has become really good lately. Granted, usually it's CBN banding, but massive amounts of heroes and numbers are hard to kill. That said, I don't think they need to be in there. They're nice, but not necessary.

Regarding Passover, I couldn't care less. It's not good enough to warrant a spot, IMO.

Set Fire/Axe
In order to Trumpet and Sword to do the most destruction, I want to assure that no "headquarters" are sitting over in their defensive territory, but certainly neither card will grant me the win. My hope is to play Axe on Nebush' from hand after exchanging souls making their attack a Battle Challenge.

Usually T and S is all you need.  Use it to take out CP or the protect fort, and since it negates too, you can discard from their territory as well as battle.  Only Pharisees/Sadducees have layered protection of CP + protect fort.

I took Gabe's advice and put Leviathan and Dragon in there with Midianites attack.

I think Sapphira would be a better splash than Red Dragon.  So many Disciples cards negate special abilities on ECs.  Immunity is really easy to get by, unless it is CBN.