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The offense is entirely too many cards in the current state but it will be thinned out the more I test and see what's really needed to win consistent battles. For example, 1 ET and 1 Thomas can be swapped out for 1 Eternal Covenant perhaps. The evil in the reserve needs to come down and then more Everlasting Beings in more than likely go into the reserve. I like having some solid interrupt/CBN specific battle winners because this offense gets stronger each turn, but sometimes I need an extra battle winner to push through early on. This deck is angel party but I go first turn Reassuring Angels to Thomas for CBN Entertaining Angels to snag Captain from deck and band him in. Thomas/Captain first turn is usually enough. Plenty of times I have been able to snag an additional hero prior to Entertaining in battle so I can snag TSA and/or Michael plus Entertaining Angels to snag the third and band. After I get the big 3 I start snagging angels as needed. Daniel's Guardian to bring in Daniel with my own enhs being CBN is very strong. I can bring in The Defender of the Saints to bring in Jeremiah into the angel party band. I can bring in Angel of the Winds to ET to play first, cbn. I like to bring in Legion of Angels with Goshen out, plus TSA to toss "negated" enhs. Jeremiah is almost too much, so Defender and Jeremiah might come out. Bringing in Gabriel/Attending/ET is very good because I can recur whatever I want, grab anything from deck, and play off ET. I get ET in battle with Angel of the Winds and then band him in with Cherubim. Captain is always last of the band for cascading negate, if I bring in ET, Captain won't come in. Cherubim POC brings in Daniel. The other Cherubim brings in Jeremiah once Defender gets him, but taking out Jeremiah means I can take out Defender and Cherubim, so that's 3 cards out, plus the other 2 out for 1 Eternal, so 4 out so far. Daniel's Guardian can come out as well, I just need The Great White Throne and A W Within a W to snag Daniel and Cherubim, so there's another hero out to streamline the deck. You guys are doing a great job at helping me thin the offense out, thanks! I do love having Angels of Wrath/Gabriel with ET to grab an extra and play, but that too seems like it is too "cute" and saves me 4 cards total.

To recap, simple angel party, then start adding in Daniel through Cherubim POC, Attending Angel/Gabriel to grab from deck/discard, Servant Angel to draw/grab the arts you need. Goshen out with Legion in battle with TSA for tossing. I negate everything pretty much and all of my stuff works. I play no CBN enhs so they all work through CBN, my heroes grant the CBN on all of my enhs, so even if CBP cards are used against me, I interrupt them. I like Overwhelming Presence as a mass removal, but that might not be necessary due to Faith Unbowed over and over as needed. As of now, I really have no good reserve access to snag what I need from offense, so that is my main focus to fix. My solution for that was to throw everything in reserve that I can get and swap everything out for what I cannot retrieve. I have Fifth Seal and then I can recur Fifth Seal, but that is not ideal. I can add Cov of Prayer and I can go and snag Cov of Prayer through Angelic Guidance. I could play Mene Mene, but that's is not ideal.

Let me know what you all think of this. I can swap out 2x Reassuring Angels and a John, maybe even a James, I'm not sure, for Clay/Green prophets, there's plenty, and pre-block play Entertaining Angels? The thing is, I lose my add to battle play off ET and then give my opponent the ability to choose to block, but, they have to block Legion/Goshen, Daniel, Captain/TSA ROJ, Michael/Thomas CBN enhs with Gabriel/Attending to snag Faith Unbowed. This is very similar to TSA/Entertaining Angels though, so does it matter?

You probably have already seen this, but it was new to me for demon/magicians defense...
KoT + Imitating Evil (Evil Character may band to a demon. Imitating Evil becomes a generic copy of that demon. Cannot be negated.) to Messenger of Satan, making 2 MoS, band one to Judean Mediums to have demons and magicians CBN and band the other to maybe The Lying Prophet... the draw potential is HUGE!!! and it is big CBN FbtN...


Godspeed,
Mike

Judean Mediums can't make characters that previously entered battle CBN - cards are CBN or not when they are played. So you'd need Judean Mediums in battle before KoT and/or Messenger of Satan to make them CBN.