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This deck was inspired by Tim's Herod/Sites deck at Nationals with Egyptians added for a more turtle approach and to get their deck empty faster for Watchful Servant via deck discard.

Deck Size: 63

Souls: 8
Escape (Exchange with another soul in deck)
Crowds
NT Only
Female Only
First Round Protect
Site Doubler
CBP
FBTN

Doms: 8
SoG
TSC
Grapes
Burial
Martyr
FA (W)
DoN
Shipwreck

Heros: 5
Gideon
Watchful Servant
Joshua, Son of Nun
Captain of the Host
AUtO

GEs: 3
Ehud's Dagger
Samuels Edict
Sword of the Spirit

ECs: 13
Archelaus
Herod Agrippa II
Herod Philip II
Herod the Great
Salome
Drusilla
Egyptian Rebel
Egyptian Charioteers
Egyptian Horsemen
Egyptian Warden
Egyptian Magicians
The Hard Hearted Pharaoh
The Murdering Pharaoh

EEs: 12
Besieging the City
Egyptian Horses
Egyptian Treasures
Escape to Egypt
Herod's Sword
Massacre of Innocents
Moses kills Egyptian
No Straw!
Revolt
Swift Horses
Herod's Treachery
Paying Taxes

Sites/Forts: 9
Pithom

Caesarea Philippi
Nazareth
Lycaonia
Chorazin
Fortress of Antonia
Pergamum
Golgotha
Herod's Dunegon

Arts/Curses/Convenants: 5
Burial Shroud
Eternal Covenant
Broken Covenant
Given Over to Egypt
Unknown Nation

The purpose of the Judges stuff is to get speed with AUtO, harass their defense with Gideon+Sword, take any sites they happen to play or that get taken from me with Josh, and have a couple negates that can serve as backup if they play something that messes with my territory or to play on Watchful if they hold and EC or two in hand.

You gotta have more emphasis on getting cp out early told him the same thing.
Btc no mayhem??

I know sites are at an all time low in power level these days and this isn't really intended to be a top tier competitive deck, more of an attempt to make a deck with this style as un-bad as possible and see where it ends up.

I've played a few games with a less complete physical version of the deck (I don't have a Broken Covenant, TSC, and one or two other cards) and the only issue I had with sites was getting a bad opening, which is why I changed most of the souls to things like first round protect and escape. Getting initiative with Herods is sometimes an issue but a lot of the time I'm going to be either using Herod's Dungeon or Herod's Treachery to mitigate that.

I'm not running Mayhem because, while it would certainly be nice to have, without Foreign Wives it isn't ever a guaranteed block and also even in versions of the deck without Broken Covenant, my hand was always pretty full and it would be hard not to minus myself with a Mayhem.

You might want to play Ashtaroth Worship or some other recursion counter because Daniel/Ethan really wrecked you the last time we played.

Yeah unfortunately the prevalence of You Will Remain means that it may not win you many battles though.

Yeah unfortunately the prevalence of You Will Remain means that it may not win you many battles though.

Pretty much the only thing that will make Wonders Forgotten not win battles is Coliseum.  YWR will just make him have to block another rescue