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Elders aren't dead. Kevin Shride rocked an Elders deck at IA State.

Elders are not dead at all, just not widely used. Why use elders when you can come out and ignore the guy before they block?

Yet, during this time of expansion in variety of T1, has there been the opposite effect in T2? 

Blue is widely played, either straight Zebulun, or straight Genesis (not the same thing), green prophets, but I don't see them in GA or TN, Purple both NT and OT ignores with Throne of David/I Am Love, Teal- straight power, or Z Temple, White nt females or TGT kinda different, Red does not see much play, gold- I use Israelite Archers/I Am Healing as well as Samaritans/Water Jar's in most decks and Meeting the Messiah x5, silver is only splashed, and of course a mix of the above. There is the same diversity in type 2 as there is in type 1.

Elders aren't dead.

Very true. Gabe and Schaef are very much alive. I think.

Prof are you okay too?

Prof are you okay too?

Yeah, I'm doing great.  And since the "other Prof" is currently on his honeymoon, I'm gonna go ahead and say that he's doing great as well

I'm playing Transfig, without elders and without TGT, I've got Lydias, Jairius', Woman of Wisdom...
so I wont always be doing the same thing...

With a Ben Hadad in territory and knowledge of a Naaman (8/7) in their hand, I'm not likely to pull a transfig or Moses + Cov, I would be more likely to attack with Elijah + AoC.

Plus with Elijah's protection from d/c and Lydia's protection from capture, hand knowledge could lend me and easy or easier fight, if not perhaps a walkthrough (oh look, you have nothing but a Zimri).

As for the defense, I REALLY would prefer to keep Brown Mr Hiatus, I really would, but after two games of blowing up multiple foul spirits, Uzzah, Zedekiah, Ahaz, Gomer... it's getting old. In type 1 you just count the cost on AoC (I have 3 souls, SoG in hand... yeah I'll play it), in type 2 blowing up your on-field defense for 1 of 7 souls is rarely worth it.

So I think it's gonna be Transfig + Saducees for 1) Urim and Thummim and 2) High Priest's Palace for protection.

Unlike apparently everybody and their uncles I don't have stacks of garden tomb cards, lol. My wife has had a garden tomb deck since Ohio nationals and that is where our only copy of TGT cards are. I use primarily Lydia, Jairus Daughter, and Woman of Wisdom just because I had tons of copies of them from old type 2 decks.

The most fun part of the deck is my 3 Johny the Bs and 4 copies of Spirit as a Dove. I may throw some TSAs in there for Spirit to pull out in case of a Calf, or worse... an A-pole.