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This is a new deck I recently built. Inspired by a post-CoW T2 deck that Xonathan built as well as the Colossae-Crimson T1 deck that kariusvega used that season. A less refined version of this deck was used at the T2 Only by a player who was new to T2, and he did okay with it--especially considering it was not "fully loaded" with things like TSC, Woes and Covenant of Prayer. I've now used it in a couple of online games, and it is definitely a fun deck to play. 

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1   Son of God (J)
1   Angel of the Lord (J)
1   The Second Coming
1   Grapes of Wrath
1   Guardian of Your Souls (RoJ)

1   Wall of Protection
1   Cloud of Witnesses

1   Moses (CoW)
1   Samuel (CoW)
1   Paul (Promo)
1   Barnabas (EC)
1   Philip's Daughters (PC)
1   Justin Martyr (RoJ)
1   Philemon
1   Epaphras (PC)
1   Onesimus (PC)
1   Apphia
1   Claudia (PC)
1   The Watchful Leaders
1   Peter (EC)
1   Gideon (CoW)
1   Ehud (RoA)
1   Simeon (Di)
1   The Angel Under the Oak
1   The Angel of the Winds

1   Not Alone (RoJ)
1   Word of Their Testimony
2   Faith of Samson
2   Faith of Gideon
2   Faith of Abel
2   Faith of Samuel
2   Faith of Joseph
2   Covenant of Prayer (RoJ)
1   You Will Remain

1   Three Woes (RoJ)
1   Behemoth (RoJ)
1   Fire Foxes
2   Gamaliel's Speech
1   Babylon The Harlot (RoJ)

2   Lost Soul Luke 19:10 (FBTN)
1   Lost Soul (Dull)
2   Lost Soul Acts 16:22 (Retribution)
1   Lost Soul (Gain)
2   Lost Soul (Escape)
2   Lost Soul (Lawless)
2   Lost Soul Romans 3:23 (Revealer)
2   Lost Soul (Open Hand)

1   Christian Martyr (J)
1   Falling Away (CoW)
1   Burial (D)
1   Destruction of Nehushtan
1   Vain Philosophy (J)
1   Strife

1   Foreign Wives
1   The Frog Demons (RoJ)
1   Doeg (CoW)
2   Outsiders (Brown/Crimson) (RoJ)
2   Lions
1   The Amalekites' Slave
1   Job's Wife (RoJ)
2   Foul Spirit (E)
1   Gomer (TxP)
1   Nebuchadnezzar (TxP)
1   Sapphira (G)
1   King Rehoboam (Ki)

1   Lurking
1   Scattered
1   Treasures of War (CoW)
3   Dream
2   Dissension in Antioch
2   Hypocrisy (EC)
2   Christian Suing Another
3   Gibeonite Trickery (Pa)
2   Wickedness of the Tenants
2   Stiff-Necked

Reserve:
1   The Angel Under the Oak
1   Epaphras (PC)
1   Blood of the Lamb (RoJ)
1   King Saul (CoW)
1   Image of the Beast (RoJ)
1   Asherah Pole
1   Household Idols
1   Kings of the Earth (RoJ)
2   Haman's Plot

Needs Jude + Philetus (5/6 Brown starter deck version)      

(Yes, Xonathan, I am using this thread as an opportunity to point out that I recommended you add that Philetus to your T2 deck at Nats 2016, and you did, and you pulled off the combo in a game...)

It might be worth testing, but I'm not a fan of having such a useless EC if I need to block with him out of necessity. With no ability, not OT for Wickedness or Stiff-Necked, he'd be pretty terrible. Then if I lose him, Jude doesn't really do much. Also, Jude could potentially mess with my missionaries that I want to be Colossae since he would be a second Jerusalem Hero with Peter.

After giving this a little more thought, I realized that the new Philetus could potentially fit because I'm running Faith of Joseph, which conveniently would protect my own discard pile from Philetus' ability if I were to choose him...

Perhaps I add Philetus and run Jude in the Reserve as an emergency plan...