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ok, i have never played t2 before, and i have tournaments tomorrow. someone help me learn fast!!!
also can i have some pointers?

If not, deck building rules can be found here.  The one big rule difference from T1, aside from rescuing seven souls, is that characters gain experience (1/1) each time they successfully rescue a Lost Soul or successfully block.

Because you can have multiples of each card, it is common to only use one brigade on offense and one on defense, and though you don't have to, it makes things easy knowing that your characters and enhancements will match.  Just watch out for ignore... very common in Type 2.

Make sure you have some cards that can draw you cards, and/or ways to search.  You don't want to be stuck waiting to draw Son of God.  However, I wouldn't go for all-out speed-type decks, at least while you're starting out, as you may draw through your deck too quickly.

Finally, have some "can't be negated" cards, or ways to make them CBN.  Because many battle winners are interrupts, and because they can have 5 of each, you want to make sure they can't stop at least some of your cards.  Also helps if they are playing a by-the-numbers deck.

Your deck must contain a minimum of 100 cards.
The number of good alignment cards must equal the number of evil alignment cards.

You may have no more than 254 (or something near that) cards.

You may have 1 of each Dominant.
You may have 1 of each multi-color enhancement or character.
You may have 3 of each Artifact/Curse/Covenant/Fortress
You may have one of each Lost Soul/Site with a special ability per 50 cards (same as T1).
You may have no more than five of any one card not covered by the above (i.e., single brigade character, enhancement, or site with no SA).

Go with what you have the most of in one particular brigade for a start. Do single color on both sides offense and defense and try to keep it at 105-112. If you like attacking or your offense is strong go with 16-19 heroes, if not, 14-16 heroes. With the enhancements lets say I do 16-19 heroes then I try for 14-18 enhs, and if I do 14-16 heroes I try for 17-20 enhs. Just depends on what kind of deck it is. Always do more EC's though. Minimum 16 for every deck b/c you can wait to attack but not to block.

What would be recommended for a deck between 150-200?

Don't do it. You will have so much jank in there you won't be able to get anything going. If you liker using larger decks, go with 119. You will have more than your opponent 90% of the time. Now in a 100 card deck you can still have 5 of each of a card. So I don't know what you mean by saying 3 of each in a 150-200.