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I wrote a small article about David decks and the potential they had. When I updated a current deck I have to include royalty meek it lost to my other two mostly PoC updated decks. This deck centered around red and adding into battle. It has meek plus your red banding and a few tricks as well as Shields to protect my red bands. It also has the meek add to battle and Gates of Jerusalem. I assumed it would be a very strong offense but the defense really couldn't block my other offenses consistently and the offense somehow seemed to stall. I will continue to work on that one and potentially post it but I wanted to combine two strong themes to maximize a few abilities like I mentioned in my David decks article. I took royalty meek with the new Throne of David and added Ruth heroes with Threshing Floor. This build allows me to look at the top X (good kings) and take up to 1 and top or underdeck the rest every upkeep. When my lone Ruth or meek hero attacks I also get to look at the top X (Ruth and/or meek) take up to 1 and top or underdeck the rest. This allows me to hide lost souls all day as well as snag two cards every rescue. Couple that with adding to battle of Gates of Jerusalem, Matthew's Begats, Faith of David if I want or You Will Remain and I can consistently attack, stop end the battle cards, and constantly retrieve resources needed to wear down my opponent due to the numerous attacks per turn. I also have King's Signet Ring and Book of the Law (amazing card) to reset my guys or bounce an EC in territory if they only have one and force them to block from hand to retrieve a good card from deck as well. Matt's Begats and King's Signet Ring can both be activated on characters so I don't lock up my artifact piles and I also give my opponent numerous targets to negate or deal with. When I attack with a lone meek royalty hero I can also take a good O.T. weapon from deck or equip one from deck or discard. I also negate OT lost souls. Threshing Floor protects my meek and Ruth heroes in territory and I also use Gates of Jerusalem for additional protection and add to battle. Wall of Protection also offers situational protection and protects my meek heroes from the first EE played in battle which then forces my opponent to work around this while I am potentially grabbing two cards with Threshing Floor/Throne, another weapon with King's Ring, and potentially one good card from deck with Book of the Law if they block from hand. I also use Joseph and Mary to exchange to a meek and increase 10/10, preferably a meek king, and then they are pumped up 10/10 and Mary protects them. Since I am pumped up I don't have to plan any enhancements, theoretically. Since so many of my heroes topdeck and grab forts/arts from deck, this doesn't take much to set up and I also have strong heroes, band abilities and enhs to work with if my opponent can target numerous forts/arts.

This is a rough draft, I have not tested it or anything. I simply looked over my T1 LoC Constructed deck (see T1 Deck Advice) and my current red/royalty deck and combined the main themes. I have found that when I play red/brown or red/black that I can have numerous enhs in my hand for both my good and evil for red/black and red/brown I always have characters. This is especially nice because I can have a smaller offense and defense due to less overall characters while still having a lot of characters. This allows me to use 12-14 enhs on good and evil and I can still play dual alignment good/evil to have additional support. Also, since it is so insanely easy to retrieve covs/curses and they are so strong, I can also have numerous covs/curses in reserve to help me rescue/block. I am finding 100 card decks to be much easier to make and still have an insane amount of resources. Offense in next post.

Someone I played an LoC game with was running David with Preparing to Return to bounce him every turn. Seems like a pretty easy setup for a good O.T. card every turn. Who needs ASP when you can just grab whatever you need every turn anyway, right?

How do you get Adam out of Reserve right away?