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Before you look through the deck, there's a few things I'd like opinions on.

I originally had King of Tyrus (pt) x2 in the deck, but replaced them with Trembling Demons to go along with the idea of the defense. My thoughts while building this defense were focused on stopping such things as Garden Tomb, Michael+Angel's Sword, and most of the other common strategies.

To stop:

Garden Tomb - I have three Spreading Mildews to negate Garden Tomb, it's also for negating protection fortresses and others such as Storehouse or whatever else is needed. I've also got several generic characters that I can place in Kingdoms to stop it.

Michael+Angel's Sword - Most of my blocks will be with Trembling Demon/Uzzah, so his ability to play first won't matter. I've also got the Deceiving Spirits which can play my three Sinning Hands and Swift Horses+Wonders Forgotten.

CtB, AOC promo abuse - Kingdoms stops CtB, Golden Calf also helps with preventing Jacob to pre-block ignore and CtB. Since my defense is mostly auto-block, I can just drop a character from hand and stop a rescue attempt, so I won't be needing to place down characters.


I would also like your opinion on the offense. I would rather not play with Garden Tomb, since that is what most people are expecting. And a good Michael+Angel's Sword is quite hard to stop. If they have demons, I'll AOC them. I'm open to changing the offense completely if you convince me.  


105 Cards -- (39/39/27)

Lost Souls:
Wanderer x2
Female Only x2
N.T. Only x2
Revealer x2
2-Line x2
RoA (Cannot be prevented) x2
RoA (Anti-ignore) x2

Dominants: (4 Good / 4 Evil)
Son of God
New Jerusalem
Angel of the Lord
Guardian of Your Souls
Destruction of Nehushtan
Burial
Falling Away
Christian Martyr

Artifacts: (9 Neutral)
Golden Calf x2
Holy of Holies x2
Blue Tassels x2
Unholy Writ x3

Sites: (4 Neutral)
Dragon Raid x2
Promised Land x2

Curses: (4 Evil)
Captured Ark x2
Unknown Nation x2

Fortresses: (2 Evil)
Kingdoms of the World x2

Purple Offense: (13 Good)
King David x2
Ethiopean Treasure x3
Mephibosheth x2
-Authority of Christ (promo) x3
-Reach of Desperation x3

Silver Offense: (23 Good)
Michael (ki) x3
Cherubim x2
Angel of God x2
The Strong Angel (wa) x3
Captain of the Host (wa) x3
-Three Angels x3
-Striking Herod x4
-Angel's Sword x3

Orange Defense: (10 Evil)
Deceiving Spirit x3
Trembling Demon x4
-Sinning Hand x3

Gold Defense: (15 Evil)
Egyptian Warden x2
Egyptian Charioteers x2
Potiphar's Wife x2
-Swift Horses x3
-Spreading Mildew x3
-Wonders Forgotten x3

Brown Defense: (4 Evil)
Uzzah x4

Yeah that was my original plan, was to let the AOCs take care of demons. But there's always that chance they block Michael from hand with a Demon and then completely tear me apart. So they're really just in there for safety, and I didn't want to overkill on the battlewinners. Considering people sometimes won't even try to block a Michael+Angel's Sword or Strong Angel.

Woah, I never noticed that on New Jerusalem. 

Yeah, I could probably drop two purple heroes for more silver, what should I add in? I was thinking of dropping Defeating the Enemy x2, a Striking Herod, and a The Strong Angel. So that's 4 cards to add in, plus the 2 purple replacements, so I could change them to Captain of the Host x3 and Three Angels x3.

Hmm, Second Seal would be nice. But I'm not a fan of Gathering in type-2 anymore, it's just not worth the 4 turns since there are so many ways to get rid of whoever I set aside.

And I still don't have a copy of The Darkness.