Author Topic: Back to the Past (Read 3888 times)

Alex_Olijar · « **on:** January 14, 2010, 04:51:59 PM »

There's a tournament comming up in Pittsburgh next weekend, and I currently do not have a deck built. I decided to rectify this by returning to the past for encouragement. Welcome to a FBTN/CtB old school, multi-brigade deck. I have no reason to believe it will not work. Do you?

Cards in deck: 56
Lost Souls: 8
   Lost Soul (Color Guard)
   Lost Soul (female only)
   Lost Soul (hopper)
   Lost Soul (N.T. only)
   Lost Soul (shuffler)
   Lost Soul (site doubler)
   Lost Soul (Wanderer)
   Lost Souls (2-line)

Lamb Dominants: 4
   Angel of the Lord
   Harvest Time
   New Jerusalem
   Son of God

Grim Reaper Dominants: 3
   Burial
   Christian Martyr
   Destruction of Nehushtan

Fortresses: 1
   Wall of Protection

Multi-Color Sites: 1
   Promised Land

Purple Sites: 2
   Pergamum
   Prison

Artifacts: 1
   Unholy Writ

White Covenant Cards: 2
  Unknown Nation (Gold)
   Captured Ark (Crimson)

Silver Heroes: 3
   Captain of the Host
   Cherubim
   The Strong Angel

Green Heroes: 2
   Benaiah
   Habakkuk

Blue Heroes: 3
   Claudia
   Ira
   Jacob

Purple Heroes: 2
   Elijah
   Ethiopian Treasurer

Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 2
   Philosophy
   Spiritual Warfare

Green Hero Enhancements: 1
   Provisions

Blue Hero Enhancements: 2
   Abraham's Servant to Ur
   Obedience of Noah

Purple Hero Enhancements: 2
   Authority of Christ
   Reach of Desperation

Crimson Evil Characters: 4
   King Shallum
   King Zimri
   Red Dragon
   Sapphira

Gold Evil Characters: 3
   Egyptian Warden
   King Elah
   King of Tyrus

Gray Evil Characters: 3
   Emperor Nero
   Job's Wife
   King Pekahiah

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 2
   Lying Unto God
   Torment

Crimson Evil Enhancements: 2
   Large Tree
   Midianite Attack

Gold Evil Enhancements: 2
   Failed Objective
   Wonders Forgotten

Gray Evil Enhancements: 1
   Balaam's Disobedience

Red Dragon Thorn · « **Reply #1 on:** January 15, 2010, 11:50:29 AM »

I think a deck like this would do just fine, I would look the following changes to make the CtB easier.

Jeremiah or Habbakuk in for Miriam. Getting around all the major CtB counters is awesome.
Darius Decree out for Guardian or Falling Away. Unless there's really all that much pre-block stuff going on in MD, Then cut one of your two purple sites.

Just a few ideas I think will make it a teeny bit better, but it looks very solid right now.

redemptioncousin · « **Reply #2 on:** January 15, 2010, 12:43:56 PM »

I like it...
I know it would probably beat 2 out of 3 of my current decks...

Anyways... have you talked to the guy from GCC yet??? It'd be really nice to get down there and see all you folks.

Matt

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #3 on:** January 15, 2010, 01:19:30 PM »

@RDT: Since when is Pittsburgh in MD?

. Jeremiah or Habbakuk seems solid. I wasn't sure which other green character to use. They seem like better options. As for DD, yes, that's mostly a meta tech. One guy plays a white offense and another plays a speed type offense, so I wanted to make it harder for them to own up my defense.

@Matt Sending Trevor a message now. Hopefully he is comming down. It'd be great to see you too, plus we can always use more players

Red Dragon Thorn · « **Reply #4 on:** January 15, 2010, 02:05:02 PM »

Doh, For some reason I confused you and Korunks

Ignore me I don't even know how to play this game

I just throw cards around randomly and if something cool hapens, then great!

Gabe · « **Reply #5 on:** January 17, 2010, 10:49:42 AM »

I don't see King Amaziah on your decklist. Considering what else you have in your deck he seems like a must have.

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #6 on:** January 17, 2010, 12:55:29 PM »

That's a good point Gabe, but I'm not sure it would be adventageous to add another color with all the anti-more than 3 colors that goes around nowadays. Also, I'd have to drop something

. What do you think would be the best choice to drop if I wanted to add in Amaziah?

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #7 on:** January 24, 2010, 02:19:34 PM »

I played the above deck at the tournament yesterday. It has been modified since the original posting. The deck went 3-0, winnig by scores of 5-1, 5-3, and 5-4. The 5-4 game was especially satisfying, as the defense decimated a Garden Tomb deck. Other fun including achieving a 15/17 King of Tyrus via Large Tree in one game, and winning one block by using Zimri + Midianite Attack for FBTN, and then placing Large Tree on Zimri and winning another block with Zimri's ability.

TheKarazyvicePresidentRR · « **Reply #8 on:** January 24, 2010, 03:52:50 PM »

Ah the good old days.

Red Dragon Thorn · « **Reply #9 on:** January 24, 2010, 04:17:48 PM »

Mind posting what the final deck looked like? I'm kinda curious

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #10 on:** January 24, 2010, 04:24:09 PM »

You can see it up there. I added in Unknown Nation and Unholy Writ for Otho and Darius' Decree. Writ helped boost my stalling a little, and Unknown Nation helped with the FBTN theme on defense. I took Otho out when I realized Philosophy was not NT when it is evil, and when I realized I don't actually own a Decree, I put in Writ to help against play first pwnage or TGT, which I foresaw as the major issues. As it turned out, my FBTN character really took down the TGT when I had a slow offensive draw. By the time I had rescued a soul, I had discarded his chariots of fire and 6 heroes, so I didn't have much to worry about. I set my CtB against his Philistine defense, and 4 RAs later (There was a short pit stop at AoCp pre-block to kill 7 defenders), I won 5-4.

redemptioncousin · « **Reply #11 on:** January 24, 2010, 10:39:40 PM »

So how do you make it better against an A-bom deck???

3-Liner And Bags Of Chips · « **Reply #12 on:** January 25, 2010, 11:37:50 AM »

wait you can play large tree on kot? I must be missing something...xp

Cameron the Conqueror · « **Reply #13 on:** January 25, 2010, 11:40:50 AM »

I don't ever remember seeing the final ruling, but I believe King of Tyrus is a King and therefore is qualified for Large Tree.

3-Liner And Bags Of Chips · « **Reply #14 on:** January 25, 2010, 11:43:30 AM »

he is a king but not royalty. So you can use large tree on a crimson and then use the effect on KOT?

Cameron the Conqueror · « **Reply #15 on:** January 25, 2010, 11:47:14 AM »

If that was the ruling, then yes to your question.

3-Liner And Bags Of Chips · « **Reply #16 on:** January 25, 2010, 11:50:21 AM »

I need to make some changes to my deck...brb...*runs off to add large tree to deck...*

Professoralstad · « **Reply #17 on:** January 25, 2010, 12:42:49 PM »

Quote from: Cameron the Conqueror on January 25, 2010, 11:40:50 AM

I don't ever remember seeing the final ruling, but I believe King of Tyrus is a King and therefore is qualified for Large Tree.

The final ruling is found on this thread. So yes, Large Tree can be placed on KoT.
http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=18045.msg283914#msg283914 is the final ruling.

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #18 on:** January 25, 2010, 12:57:43 PM »

That is correct. It was satisfying to finally achieve that combo.

TimMierz · « **Reply #19 on:** January 25, 2010, 02:19:21 PM »

Wait, Pittsburgh had a tournament? When was the last time THAT happened?

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #20 on:** January 25, 2010, 03:27:49 PM »

We've had 1 a month since September I believe.

TimMierz · « **Reply #21 on:** January 25, 2010, 03:57:42 PM »

Nice, glad that things are happening there.

Alex_Olijar · « **Reply #22 on:** January 25, 2010, 05:14:00 PM »

Yeah, it's too bad you are not around for them. We have anywhere between 6-12 players. A ocuple guys from Ohio even came over once. I missed that tournament so I am not sure whom exactly.

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Author Topic: Back to the Past (Read 3888 times)