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Okay...first off....yeah, it does stink, but the biggest issue is that it's illegal...
According to my calculations, you need 5 more Lost Souls and you have more Good cards than Evil.
1) Good must equal Evil.
Good consists of Covenants, Fortresses, Heroes, Enhancements, and Dominants.
Evil consists of Curses, Fortresses, Evil Characters, Enhancements, and Dominants.
Neutral consists of Lost Souls, Sites, Artifacts, and Philosophy.

2) I counted 147 non-LS cards. That means you need 24 LS. This is WAY too many, imo.

Next, let's talk about card choices. I haven't said this in awhile, because it's not always necessary, but for this deck's current state, you need it. If you only have 1, you probably shouldn't include it. Now, of course, that doesn't concern Dominants, but just as an example, you have Dragon Raid and Ends of the Earth for site access. The odds of you drawing either one of these are very slim, so I would not include either. If you can search for something, that's different, but other cards include most of your Fortresses, Artifacts, and some enhancements, but I'll talk about that later...

Like now. Your defense is decent, you have a lot of multiples of certain things which is good, but we need to trim it down a bit.
Take out these: Wastelands, Herod's Temple, Sin in the Camp, The Rabshakeh's Threats x2
That gives you 55 Evil Cards.
For offense, take out these: House in Bethany, Wall of Protection, Storehouse, Obadiah's Caves, Jerusalem Tower, Watcher, Joanna (you haver her on there twice), Satan's Folly, Hur, Anna, and Valley of Dry Bones.
Add Repentance if you can.

So far, 55 Evil/Good = 110 cards.
For Neutral, take out these: Blue Tassels (this hurts your captures) and Gifts of the Magi x3 (Gifts doesn't work with ANB)
19 Neutral cards = 129 cards + 21 LS = 150 total cards.

So, that should help out a little bit, but it's still not really great. With a lot of people playing Nazareth, ANB is not going to work very well. I like the idea, but you should do what you can to try and trim it down to about 112 cards (but I'll let you do that).

Eric "enjoy" Largent

If you have pigs so they don't draw with ANB then how exactly are you using Gifts with ANB?

Also, last I heard, Gifts was ruled not to work with ANB since it starts a new turn.

Gifts with A New Beginning Post

I wasn't saying that you didn't know the deck building rules, I was just helping since the numbers were off.

I helped you trim it down to 150 cards, but it's still way too much. I know you want 3 of the Lost Souls, but there's too many random cards that can be taken out.

The reason I took out some of the sites is because they don't help you at all. You have 4 NT ECs, so the rest won't be protected from your ANB shuffle. With 150 card deck, you're maybe going to have 1 or 2 out when you play ANB.

If you want to do the Gifts thing, you need a lot more Love at First Sight and Hurs. I would also add another Storehouse then to give you 2.

As Clift said, you are going to have problems with opponents having the same sites that you do. So, you want something to negate/kill them.

Eric "not trying to cut you down, just help" Largent

That only prots from an opponent, not your ANB.

Even if it did prot from yours it wouldn't work.