Author Topic: Current T2 pre LoC (Read 3606 times)

Mr.Hiatus · « **on:** April 10, 2020, 04:04:06 PM »

I LOVE this deck. It is super consistent, fun to play, and amazingly strong. I really didn't think I would post this, but I will have to tear it apart to test other LoC themes this season. This is the deck I was trying to create last season pre-nationals but just didn't have the time to get the idea down and consistent. Go figure, I figure it out in September. This is a pretty advanced deck and can attack in a lot of different ways. This is not the entire decklist because I have taken out some staples for other decks but the majority of it is here. I know it's 100 cards though. Deck breakdown at the end.

Philip's Daughters x2
Cherubim (LR)
Zadok
Jeremiah
Zechariah
Jeremiah
Aaron, God's Mediator
Daniel (LR)
Elisha
Elijah
Habakkuk
Jonah
Hagai
Micah
Joel
Moses
Isaiah
Zephaniah
Malachi
Amos

Numerous as the Stars (underrated) x2
Virgin Birth x2 (one of these can come out for another star or a x2 of something else)
Gathered Together x2
'I AM' Has Sent Me x2
Offering Your Son
The Coming Prince
Triumphal Entry (another underrated card)
The Emmaus Road
The First Sacrifice
Eve's Descendant
Sign of Jonah
Fountains of Living Water (yet another not used card)

Covenant of Prayer
Covenant with Abraham

House of Prayer

Valley of Dry Bones
SoG
TSC
AotL
GoyS

The defense is currently false prophets and this is because gray (splash brown EC's with gray/black EE's) has the most * abilities on defense, pre LoC at least. I use Balaam's Prophecy, this takes a * card, so I can use it to hide lost souls and take anything I need on offense or defense. Vain Vision is amazing. Other gray or gray brown * cards- Cut Off, False Prophets x3 (amazing card to snag Unsuccessful/early RBD is insane, Overtaken is awesome), Scattered Sheep x2 (strong EE plus *), Stricken x2, The Afflicted, Accursed by God (gets my curses and I can play off brown/grey prophets). This allows me to get a consistent edge on my opponent. I have found that people only use some * abilities on defense and some on offense. This deck is centered around * abilities (yes I know the new LS hurts that) but I have such a huge advantage on my opponent every game. If you count card abilities I will consistently and heavily gain many more abilities in my deck. Just with my evil I am able to look at a hand or reserve, protect all decks and reserves from opponents during the next battle phase, grab curses, put The Afflicted in their territory, activate a gray curse and have additional curses out, reveal all hands and underdeck a hero from each hand (I play 21 heroes so I'm fine and it's my choice of who I underdeck for me and my opponent), topdeck an evil card from bottom 6, and I still get Vain Vision. Between False Prophecy, Vain Vision (potentially x2 or Vain Philosophy x2), and Balaam's Prophecy, I can always hide lost souls. Also, Malachi grabs a * card from discard so I can keep getting back EE's when needed.

Neutrals I use are Hidden Treasures, Magic Charms, BotC, U&T, Manna (amazing card, not really used) 7th bowl, Delivered.

Breakdown in next comment.

Mr.Hiatus · « **Reply #1 on:** April 10, 2020, 04:04:16 PM »

My favorite play is The First Sacrifice pre-battle, RA with Hidden Treasures active, Malachi, pre-battle The First Sacrifice. I just negated 2 evil cards in a territory and underdecked 2 evil cards from my opponent's hand before they blocked, and it was free for me. Then next turn I do The First Sacrifice again. This is really nice when I get a The Coming Prince as well for a potential back to back 2x The First Sacrifice.

So that brings me to the offense. It has massive bands that are situationally used. I can do Ezekial to Cherubim to Moses to Aaron to Zadok to Haggai to Zechariah. I can also swap in Elijah/Elisha, Jeremiah, Daniel, Isaiah or any prophet (all of the other heroes not listed) in my deck as well. That band is also CBI/N and I topdeck all evil dominants in your hand, which is amazing after I hit you with one The Evil Sacrifice for your CBP/N battle winner or * evil enh that hurts me, then target your evil doms, then finish the band with Zechariah. This is pretty much the same band Jayden did with Lightning Priest but I use Numerous as the Stars with a few more tricks to get out the band quickly as well. The rest of the deck really focuses on interrupt band or banding pre-battle off of Hidden Treasures. I band in Daniel or Jeremiah first to look at your hand, Phil's Daughters to shuffle 4 random, Zephaniah to reveal X (minor prophets) and shuffle an evil card- my choice, another Phil's Daughter for another 4 random, then Elisha or another look at hand hero, preferably Elisha to underdeck evil doms, or Ezekial to Cherubim to do the same thing. House of Prayer and City of Refuge are amazing, although I cut CoR due to my defense discard battle winners. I originally had an Assyrian defense in mind that can get rid of Storehouse/hand protectors and punishes my opponent for using Storehouse. My entire good band works through Zechariah and I go after your */CBN EE's. Remember, I don't really care about CBP cards because my * enhs can negate them (Sign of Jonah/The First Sacrifice on an EC in territory that stops me/Eve's Descendant/The Coming Prince). So if they have CBP stuff that's fine, I still can * through my Zechariah to negate them. Jonah and Habakkuk in territory are amazing. RBD always out is awesome and I hide lost souls. Amos in a pinch if they get set up before me or limit my resources, I can shuffle X (minor prophets). I can also play this to my advantage to get rid of Storehouse and then put down my stuff, but this rarely works due to all my resources pulling out early on. But what if you acn't get rid of their Storehouse? Well I do have Shipwrecked/3W, but they still have to stop my Zechariah band and with Isaiah in battle * abilities are CBN. I still can attack with Jeremiah battle winners.

Like I said, this deck is so fun and can attack in so many ways. The insane amount of * abilities really let me gain a competitive advantage against my opponent quickly and makes my deck consistent.

jesse · « **Reply #2 on:** April 10, 2020, 10:33:15 PM »

Awesome, man! So much going on with this deck, it seems really well thought out and pretty fine tuned already. And definitely fun!

TheJaylor · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2020, 12:51:37 AM »

My pre-LoC deck and your pre-LoC deck should get together and hang out some time. I feel like they'd have fun.

Mr.Hiatus · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2020, 01:21:56 AM »

Lol Jayden. Yeah before nats I had this band going but no way to get it quick and didn’t have what I was going for completely fine tuned. Who knows if I continue to play this or update it. And thanks Jesse, it playtests very well and is so fun to play.

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