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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Deck Building & Design => Type 1 Deck Advice => Topic started by: Kevinthedude on May 31, 2017, 07:02:17 PM
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This is a deck I tweaked the first couple weeks of RoJ on lackey and the one I plan on continuing to use as my main deck once I get the cards together in real life. It started as the playtest deck from LoR so thanks to Justin for the base of the deck.
Dominants:
Christian Martyr
Falling Away
Mayhem
Angel of the Lord
SoG
TSC
Three Woes
Souls:
Darkness
Humble
Imitate
Lawless
Open Hand
Crowds
Punisher
Hopper
Heroes:
Angel from the Altar
Angel of Revelation
Angels of Wrath
Gabriel
Michael, the Archangel
Servant Angel
The Angel Under the Oak
The Strong Angel (RoJ)
Good Enhancements:
Angelic Guidance
Angelic News
Fifth Seal
Everlasting Beings
Protection of Angels
DAEs:
Third Bowl of Wrath
Fifth Bowl of Wrath
Seventh Bowl of Wrath
War in Heaven
Evil Enhancements:
Scattered
Evil Characters:
Fire Foxes
Uzzah
Foreign Spearman
Foreign Wives
King of Tyrus
Red Dragon
The Deceiver
War
Famine
Conquer
Covenants:
You Will Remain
I am Creator
Covenant of Gabe
Forts/Sites:
The Gates of Hell
The Ends of the Earth
Patmos
Nazareth
Deck Size: 50
Reserve:
Striking Herod
Sword of the Spirit
Fourth Bowl of Wrath
Sixth Bowl of Wrath
Wrath of Satan
Every Mans Sword
2k Horses
Outsiders (Black/Gold)
Goliath
Shrine to Artemis
This is pretty much the only deck I have played in Redemption where it is not uncommon to draw and play every single card in the entire deck and often I only have 2-3 cards left in Reserve as well. I am very open to feedback on the deck but I'll defend almost every card in the deck pretty strongly since they all serve a specific purpose. The deck size being 50 (48 if you count Hopper and News as filler, which is why they are in the deck) is extremely important as it is what makes the deck consistent and I'm not willing to increase the size at all.
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I've seen this a couple times, but you could toss in the old version of Red Dragon as well. He is still pretty decent, and it could be a bit of a shock for some people to see it.
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I don't get I am Creator in this, it seems pretty worthless if drawn anytime after the first turn. But I guess it works for Uzzah.
Sneaky inclusion of Naz, but I'd still watch out for Joshua. He's far from gone.
Foreign Spearman is also sneaky with the bowls. :thumbup:
Is the Outsiders in Reserve the one that can grab idols? I'm assuming so since Shrine is in Reserve.
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I don't get I am Creator in this, it seems pretty worthless if drawn anytime after the first turn. But I guess it works for Uzzah.
Sneaky inclusion of Naz, but I'd still watch out for Joshua. He's far from gone.
Foreign Spearman is also sneaky with the bowls. :thumbup:
Is the Outsiders in Reserve the one that can grab idols? I'm assuming so since Shrine is in Reserve.
The nice thing about Naz is that it does mostly the same thing no matter which player controls it. I am Creator is indeed used by Uzzah a lot. The reason I include it is because this deck NEEDS to have a hero in the opening hand to play the territory enhancements and start the speed train. IaC used to be a 9th Hero but there isn't any other angel I would use over any of these 8 in a rescue if I had the option, therefore the hypothetical 9th Hero is only used if he is my only Hero, therefore IaC is just as good. Uzzah allows IaC to be better than a 9th Hero because it achieves value other than just if drawn in the opening.
Outsiders is actually the black/gold one, thanks for noticing I edited the list to specify that. The reason he is there is because he can heavily punish someone running lots of brigades and potentially win a battle by himself in addition to drawing a massively amount of cards.
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Using Mayhem and having 4 crimson characters, I'd be very tempted to add Hypocrisy (in Reserve if not the main deck).
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Still don't understand running angels of wrath without grapes.
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Still don't understand running angels of wrath without grapes.
It's a nice combo but dom slots are tighter than ever with woes existing and nazareth will be up a decent amount of the time preventing me from getting it that way.
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Curious your reasoning for main-decking 3rd Bowl and putting 4th Bowl in Reserve? In my experience, 4th Bowl is much stronger (especially since you aren't using Martyrs).
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Curious your reasoning for main-decking 3rd Bowl and putting 4th Bowl in Reserve? In my experience, 4th Bowl is much stronger (especially since you aren't using Martyrs).
I discovered early on that while it would at first appear optimal to put the best bowls in deck and the less good ones in reserve, it's actually better to put the offensive ones in reserve and the defensive ones in deck. 4th bowl is going to be played offensively 99% of the time and is almost always the first thing I grab with wrath angel since he also has the initiative required to play it. Whether it is in deck or reserve it is going to end up in my hand because of wrath angel most of the time. 3rd bowl is in the main deck because it is a standalone evil battle winner in crimson, which can be played in very common scenario of blocking with conquer+war and having conquer negated.
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Gonna try this deck out...looking for a mainly revelation deck
The Covenant of Gabe...what is that???
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Gabe's Nationals 2016 winner card is Covenant of Prayer
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Gabe's Nationals 2016 winner card is Covenant of Prayer
I should have known ::) 8)
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Question, why arent you running Dragon's Wrath? If War bands to RD that's an auto battle winner.
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Question, why arent you running Dragon's Wrath? If War bands to RD that's an auto battle winner.
It gets insteaded much more often than I'd like. I have Wrath of Satan to wipe the board and wiping my own Heroes doesn't matter since I can just everlasting beings them all back instantly.
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Well, I tried this deck out...I think I am still not used to that many multiple brigades (defense) in one deck. Sure it is mainly mono angel, but I struggled with keeping the defense going even though I know it should move pretty easily. I will have to come back to this concept once I get some other types down.