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Offline bbryant14

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Help for a "New" Player
« on: April 22, 2020, 10:13:42 PM »
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Howdy guys! Loaded question time. I own and played with the I and J starter deck a few years ago to learn and teach some others about Redemption. No one else bought in, but I've been itching to get back to this game recently. I bought the grab bag from Cactus and a few other foil packs and want to build a deck (jank or somewhat playable) for the online sanctioned tournament (T1-2P).

So, how should I organize my fresh bulk/find playables, and what decks could I build with this limited supply? Maybe add-on to the starters? Throw together a crazy off-meta monster?

If this needs to be posted elsewhere please let me know.

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Re: Help for a "New" Player
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2020, 11:05:30 PM »
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I’ll be on Saturday to help on and I feel like you have a lot of questions, do you want to go over all of them Saturday? To give you some sort of answer to have something for Saturday, just expect to learn a lot...play the J deck and anything you see that matches colors with what you have that you think are good.

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Re: Help for a "New" Player
« Reply #2 on: April 23, 2020, 02:30:53 AM »
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Hi there and welcome (back)!  :thumbup:

Since your supply is somewhat limited according to the available sets (at least if I remember the grab bag correctly) I'd suggest to check for some tournament winning decks back from that time. You can find them here and here for example.
Maybe you did this already but IIRC combining best of I and J already makes the resulting deck more consistent.

Instead of foil packs I'd recommend to get your hands on newer sets (e.g. by trading or looking here at market forum or by bying some re-packs [boosters with only cards from newer sets]).
(My own strategy is buying all the commons of the new sets coming out e.g. during some great preorder offers or some good after release offer since the commons provide a lot of value above all regarding playing! - These I try to complete later by e.g. trading some necessary Rares, URs or Promos for my current deck resp. buying some used singles.)

Or maybe checking for additional similar things like e.g. sth. like this battle box, deckbuilders from here or re-packs from here.

Hope this helps you getting started again!
« Last Edit: April 23, 2020, 03:15:23 AM by Reth »

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Re: Help for a "New" Player
« Reply #3 on: April 23, 2020, 09:29:02 AM »
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Thank y'all for the help. I think it'd be best for me to maybe watch some games go down to get a better grip of things. For now I can stick to Lackey for learning meta decks until I save up for some singles. Again I appreciate the advice!

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Re: Help for a "New" Player
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2020, 09:36:05 AM »
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One strategy I've found helpful when building a deck is to think about major themes/categories of characters while I'm sifting through my cards (i.e. Priests, Demons, Pharisees, Angels, etc.). Next, I figure out what kinds of characters I have, then I start to find common enhancements and synergies between characters (i.e banding, protect certain characters, etc). After I have a few piles of themes, then I start to weed out the excess cards that do not add much value. The last part I usually look at are the misc cards (Dominants, Sites, Artifacts, LS, etc.) and then add those based one the characters I'm playing and my play style. And viola! You have a deck! I would recommend play testing your deck against a starter deck or something else you may have whipped up while assembling your tournament deck (I'll be doing that this evening, in preparation for Saturday).

But I agree with Reth, take a look at some decks on the message boards or even get some pointers from some theme decks from the sites Reth mentioned. They can really help give you an idea of some cards to play, and cards you'd like to get in order to play a certain theme, and the prices are decent for outright buying a theme or evening buying some battle decks to test your ensemble.

Overall, play a deck you can have fun with. Don't let the stress of building a great deck spoil the joy of playing the game. I've made that mistake.

 


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