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Characters 17
Egyptian Warden
Egyptain Magicians x 2
The Dreaming Pharaoh x 2
Potiphar
Potiphar's Wife
Foregin Wives
Egyptian Charioteers x 3
Pharaoh's cupbearer x3
Pharaoh's Baker
Egyptian Wisemen x 2

Enhancements 14
Egyptian Horses x 4
Wonders Forgotten x 4
Besiege the City x 2
Failed objective x 4

Fortress: 1 evil

Pharaoh's Throne Room

Doms 6
Christian Martyr
Mayhem
Falling Away
Vain Philosophy
Destruction of Nehustan
Burial


Wall of Protection - this will count against your offense not defense though for deck building purposes. (Maybe even x2)

This version of your defense does a couple things.
1. It streamlines the defense to avoid some of the weaker characters and enhancements that your original contains. Cards like Ruthless are rarely worth the slot in type 2 because the overwhelming majority of offensive battle winners will be CBN.

2. This version puts your focus on Genesis Egyptians to take advantage of the speed. I cut out the exodus Egyptians and even A-slave because you want the dreaming pharaoh engine running if at all possible. I added 2 additional copies of cupbearer so you can generate souls and make sure u can keep a dreaming pharaoh on the table. Playing Egyptians usually means your running a fast deck so you will want to be at 100 cards including 2 hopper lost souls so soul gen will be important. I kept the charioteers and add a few more for 2 reasons. He may be able to help you with numbers against a solo Moses when you add counters to him and most offensive interrupt, negates are not CBN so he hurts their ability to negate besiege the city and its a great character to hold the weapons.

3. I loaded you up on the weapons for optimal draw abilities and optimize your ability to play Wonders Forgotten to win battles off of a big band that draws with dreaming pharaoh.

4. In type 2 having a couple devastating combos that require several cards is ok because you usually have time to set it up a couple times a game. This deck contains the BtC/mayhem combo which you will have multiple ways of triggering. If you don't know the combo I'll explain it in another post.

5. Having lots of small number EC's allows you to use FAiled objective consistently to stall. This is another benefit for a speed type 2 deck. You should be less worried about killing their entire offense and more about holding out long enough to get to 7 for yourself.

6. Abandonment is a tricky card for this deck it may belong but more often then not I think your large banding chain from dreaming to Potiphar or another Egyptian may give you the numbers to defeat a large FBTN band so I'm not sure it's needed. (Others may disagree and may be right I am not sure about it having not tested the card myself.)

7. Wall of protection is a must maybe even a second copy because you don't want to deal with your opponent using ur defense against you. Also it stops them from using ur banding chain and the ending it with a chump block to wipe out your defense.

Hope this helps give you a better dorection to go with this deck.

I would go with 2 Failed Objective and 2 Abandonment--there are very few (if any) T2 decks that don't use some banding, so they will almost always be good for a block.

I wouldn't run Egyptians without at least a couple of lies because it is cbi if you choose a brigade they don't have a negate in. Lies is really good if you are running genesis too because Joseph can't die.