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Based on a few requests, and the fact that I need to change a few things anyway, I decided to post my Watchful Servant deck here. The premise is simple: Shrink my opponent's deck fast enough to let Watchful Servant walk in at the end for some freebies (ideally, 3-4). It took second at a local on Saturday (1 LS differential away from first), and has also performed very well in ROOT this past month, beating all but one opponent. It's only loss in the tourney was to Nathan "The Hobbit" Voigt, who drew his deck just well enough to get past me.

The biggest problem was exposed when Martin "T3h UNF0RG1VABL3" Miller whomped on it twice in a row after the tournament with a speedy FBTN banding deck (I would have thought it would fare better vs. that offense, since Herods are the premier CBP defense). But when it works, and with a little bit of luck, the destructive power is hard to get by. A few of my tournament games, I discarded ~15 cards off of my opponent's deck.

Cards in deck: 70
Lost Souls: 9
   Lost Soul (anti-ignore)
   Lost Soul (deck discard)
   Lost Soul (FBTN)
   Lost Soul (Female Only)
   Lost Soul (revealer)
   Lost Soul (shuffler)
   Lost Soul (site guard)
   Lost Soul (Thorns)
   Lost Soul (Wanderer)

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

Grim Reaper Dominants: 4
   Burial
   Christian Martyr
   Destruction of Nehushtan
   Falling Away

Fortresses: 6
   Herod's Temple
   High Places
   Pharaoh's Throne Room
   Pithom
   Storehouse
   Wall of Protection

Multi-Color Sites: 1
   The Ends of the Earth

White Sites: 1
   Herod's Dungeon

Gold Sites: 1
   Chorazin

Artifacts: 5
   Chariot of Fire
   Lampstand of the Sanctuary
   Magic Charms
   The Bronze Laver
   Unholy Writ

White Covenant Cards: 2
   Given Over to Egypt (Gold)
   Unknown Nation (Yellow)

Gold Covenant Cards: 1
   I am Redemption

Multi-Color Heroes: 1
   Ahimaaz (Teal)

Gold Heroes: 1
   Watchful Servant

Purple Heroes: 1
   Ethiopian Treasurer

Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 3
   Benedictus (Teal/White)
   Philosophy
   Resurrection

Purple Hero Enhancements: 1
   Authority of Christ

Gold Evil Characters: 14
   Archelaus
   Egyptian Archer
   Egyptian Charioteers
   Egyptian Horsemen
   Egyptian Warden
   Herod Agrippa II
   Herod Philip II
   Herod the Great
   Huge Egyptian
   Jannes
   King of Tyrus
   Potiphar's Wife
   Queen Tahpenes
   Salome

Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 1
   Herod's Treachery

Gold Evil Enhancements: 14
   Beheaded
   Egyptian Horses
   Egyptian Spear
   Escape to Egypt
   Failed Objective
   Imprisoned
   Mask of Fear
   Moses kills Egyptian
   Outnumbered
   Pagan Sacrifices
   Rash Oath
   Ruthless
   Spreading Mildew
   Wonders Forgotten

So if your opponent has DD and Golgotha you just lose?

where is samaritan water jar? also, is knowing the size of your opponents deck common knowledge? what do you do, pick it up and count it out?

figured swj would be a good splash for the deck while still potentially helping speeding up your rescues. at the very worse, its a top3, which still means you get to rescue a turn earlier with watchful. good samaritan/well woman (or thankful leper, it has great synergy with your deck)/kindness could also be a great splash while also providing another out just in case your servant falls through.

Best counter to these types of decks...

Run a 105 carder. 

I like this deck a lot.  I always wondered why you use Philosophy though.

Daniel

 

and ht food.

Alrighty, that makes sense.  So it's multi purpose.  I didn't see the big advantages of just a couple of numbers, but with HT it makes a lot of sense.

Daniel

 

Faith as a Mustard Seed was in there...but it was proven to be pretty useless, as it only negates and discards one Site (and is thus useless vs. CP+Golgotha) and few people will occupy their Golgotha unless they are using a Site deck, primarily because of FaaMS.