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I'm looking for decks from level 1-4, 4 having the ability to get in the top half or so at nats, but not win. I'm planning on doing it where Lvl 5 changes every year to be the 1st place at nats.

Also good for the next level beyond that is to start with tin themes.  When I first started playing T2, I took the Judges tins and put that together with black Canaanites that came in tins, and that formed an excellent base to a deck I'm still using 3 years later (and has taken 2nd at Nats before).  The problem is that this can be more expensive due to needing more tins, but some players or playgroups who have played awhile may have more of these cards around (and the TEC packs come with some, too), so it is a next option to look at, particularly because the tins lend themselves to cohesive themes that are also generally intuitive.

I'll scrounge up some decklists I have to send.

Well, What I'm looking for is something like the T1 system I have.  it is like this.
Lvl 1- big numbers, no SA, basically something that woulda won tournments when Redemption first came out
Lvl 2- small character, all battle winners
lvl 3- BBn Charactersm MC Enhancements, Immune to lone heoes
Lvl 4A- Priests/Syrians
Lvl 4B-Angels Demons
Lvl 5A- Super spped, almost no def.
Lvl 5B- Stonewall
Lvl 6A-C, 2 Meta decks, nats winner
 I basically am looking for that, some difficult decks to face, but not really stuff that will win a lot of tournaments, but in T2. the Starter deck one would probabally be the one I would sell as a starter for it, now I just need the decks, but I think I'll only do four levels, with the nats winner being level 5.

So level 5 isn't going to work the way you want it.  Type 2 is even on offense and defense so you can't be defense or offense light.

Well...sort of.  You can build a defense that is just based on speed and the hope that your few battle-winners hold the line until you can draw out what you need to win (Pharisees have been my go-to for that type of deck).  But that doesn't have any real staying power.  The opposite would be something that was more reliant on bleeding your opponent with your good cards (I Am Holy and the like) while establishing a defense that can set up an end-game lock-out, when you have all of your offensive pieces and can win the game.

Honestly, 'meta' or Nats-winning decks are probably going to be easier in some ways to play than a Stonewall, and I would say that 5 should instead just be "combo decks" because the very best of the Nats winners (IMO) are combo decks that take more thinking and skill to play, and you need to get used to finding and protecting your pieces (and the RIGHT pieces at the right times).

So you have to have both evil and good cards the same in type two, even like the fortresses and dominants?

Ok so the fortresses and dominants are included in the count for good and bad cards or not?