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Cards in deck: 51
Lost Souls: 8
   Lost Soul (*/4)
   Lost Soul (FBTN)
   Lost Soul (hopper)
   Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   Lost Soul (revealer)
   Lost Soul (shame)
   Lost Soul (Shut Door)
   Lost Soul (Wanderer)

Lamb Dominants: 4
   Angel of the Lord
   Grapes of Wrath
   New Jerusalem
   Son of God

Grim Reaper Dominants: 3
   Christian Martyr
   Falling Away
   Mayhem

Fortresses: 2
   Herod's Temple
   Wall of Protection

Artifacts: 3
   Lampstand of the Sanctuary
   Samaritan Water Jar
   Urim and Thummim

White Covenant Cards: 1
   Captured Ark (Crimson)

Multi-Color Heroes: 2
   Aaron (Green/Teal)
   Samuel (Gold/Green)

Silver Heroes: 2
   Angel with the Secret Name
   The Angel Under the Oak

Red Heroes: 4
   Ahimelek the Hittite
   Asahel
   David
   Ishmaiah the Gibeonite

Gold Heroes: 5
   Eli the Priest
   Gideon
   Moses
   The Thankful Leper
   The Woman at the Well

Green Heroes: 2
   Armorbearer
   David

Purple Heroes: 1
   King Saul

Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 3
   Foreign Sword (Red/Black)
   Pentecost
   Wheel Within a Wheel (Green/Silver)

Red Hero Enhancements: 3
   A Soldier's Prayer
   Bravery of David
   Mustering for War

Gold Hero Enhancements: 2
   Deborah's Directive
   Samuel's Edict

Multi-Brigade Evil Characters: 1
  The Amalekites' Slave

Gold Evil Characters: 1
   King of Tyrus

Gray Evil Characters: 1
   Sabbath Breaker

Brown Evil Characters: 2
   Gomer
   Uzzah

Brown Evil Enhancements: 1
   Haman's Plot

This is the only T1 deck I'm really invested in right now. I've toyed around with Disciples, Water Tomb, and a handful of defense heavy decks and balanced decks, but none of them have performed sufficiently enough to justify playing them. I'm not entirely happy with it though, and I'm looking for advice on what to take out/add. My two options for adding something right now are FBTN (Beneniah and Ira) or adding a little extra defense (Trembling Demon, Holy of Holies, and Torment). The only thing I can think of to take out would be Lampstand, Eli, and Herod's Temple, but that seems less than ideal since I'm not using Guardian. Any suggestions?

Provisions > Mustering for War

How has this deck been working out for you? I set-aside my Sam deck for the time being. Just seemed that it was getting too spread out on offense and was having more and more problems ever since the new rules came about. I have thought about trying to come up with a Sam/TGT deck. TGT would force them to put down their ECs, making Foreign Sword that much better. However, at this time I'm trying to focus my attention on balanced decks.

Provisions > Mustering for War

Disagree. More often than not, they don't have any evil characters put down to pull in, and my defense is too small to sacrifice anyone. Mustering for War can be searched for via A Soldier's Prayer, and recurred (if speed is my focus) with the same. That's my logic behind using Mustering over Provisions anyway.

How has this deck been working out for you? I set-aside my Sam deck for the time being. Just seemed that it was getting too spread out on offense and was having more and more problems ever since the new rules came about. I have thought about trying to come up with a Sam/TGT deck. TGT would force them to put down their ECs, making Foreign Sword that much better. However, at this time I'm trying to focus my attention on balanced decks.

The deck works well for the most part. As I mentioned in the original post, I wish I had more defense and I wish I could reintegrate Beneniah and Ira into it, however, other than those two things, I really couldn't ask for anything more. It performs splendidly.

I tried something similar to this offense, but the SWJ part would never work.

Using Herod's Temple and Deborah's Directive really ties the deck together. I was already using The Tabernacle for use with Lampstand, so the jump to Herod's Temple (on the off-chance I'd ever need to use it for a Christian Martyr on The Woman at the Well) was pretty logical. Deb's Directive has been a godsend, since I have five gold heroes, and I've used it on The Woman at the Well more than once during a soul drought to ensure a rescue. Edict and Directive have made the integration of SWJ into the deck nearly seamless, since there's a lot of common ground there.

I would defin. use Eli's Sound Advice or Provisions over Mustering for War. Ambush the City is always a great add as well, especially if you attack w/ Woman or TL to bring up a Soul 1st.