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Philistines are okay, but weak against things like Angel, as they tend to be solo characters. Canaanites are better, and Canaanite giants can be ridiculously fast. Being able to play off of Priests of Zeus is always fun, although I haven't tried greeks enough to say anything about them.

Syrians have some fun toys this year, and I feel like there's potential to be nasty this year. Rezin to Strong Force is painful, and Naaman is just good. Add Syrian Mercenaries and Syrian Reinforcements and you've got a pretty strong defense. And then there's The Terrifying Beast, who's just icing on the cake.

Demon-Magicians is certainly still a top defense.

The Amalakites Slave
The Serpent
King of Tyrus PoC
Red Dragon
The Judean Medium
Gomer
Uzzah or in reserve and The Deceiver here
Leviathan
Fire foxes
I also use a prophet offense so I can utilize the Great Fish, Scapegoat, and Behemoth

Great Mourning
Scattered
Mourn and Weep
Blasphemies

I usually have some more orange in the reserve, this is all off memory I don’t have the deck in front of me but I block with Uzzah and don’t have to use his ability, play great mourning and play falling away, scattered or CM. Block with the The Serpent, set aside their guy, play mourn and weep, scattered if available, play grapes if possible, die. Fire foxes mourn and weep in battle is also amazing. Pretty much I use Great Mourning/Mourn and Weep and a battle winner or dominant then die. Uzzah/Fire foxes if needed and Scapegoat in a pinch. You can potentially stop rescues for up to 4 times, 3 of them still giving you a rescue and stopping theirs. Pretty annoying and has a lot of versatility.