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With the current normalcy of Covid, it seems that all State and Regional tournaments are probably not going to happen. I completely understand this, but that is difficult due to my lack of playgroup, and I am more of a nomad type of player, as I tend to drive to tournaments to test my decks. Since I can not do that this year I am asking you all, what do you think will be good, or what do you think would be a strong/fun deck idea for type 2? I would like to check in two decks this year, one taken from this thread, and one being my own creations. No promises though because there has not been much talk on the boards right now and the idea/list has to be one that I like and feel comfortable with. So by all means, help me out with some ideas to at least test before Nationals and I will let you know if I will make the deck to play in T2 at nats.

I think you are right about the meta. I am also interested to see if anyone will play meek lost souls for a very fast Daniel deck, doubtful for nationals, as well as a Kings of Judah deck, or at least defense. Josiah and I talked about a meek lost soul defense and my initial side was just how much you would lose upfront for missing out on the amazing lost soul abilities. He mentioned how if you could get past that initial burst and even the mid-early game and still have a close or low scoring game then the unity meek abilities on EC's would be very hard to get around. I am wondering how many people play meek ls at nats in both T1 and T2 because of this.
I paired that star prophet deck I had with Assyrians so I could obliterate Storehouse if needed and it was scary strong and fun to play. One of my main points for defenses this year is that if you can add to battle consistently then you can get around a lot of the meta offenses, IMO. Examples: Throne variants that abuse Ahimelek, Judges variants that CtB with Ehud or have 4x Edict, Red Warrior for Ahimelek again, and CtB with Cov/ Adam, so really I only said 2 things and said those two things twice lol but you get the point. I can see Jayden playing a slightly modified Lightning Priest or just reverting back to CoW Moses/Judges/CwD, because why not, so I have to keep that in mind when making a national contending defense. Justin plays everything but loves brown so have an offense that can get around brown in the hands of Justin, good luck. Gregg will probably have a slightly modified Ark deck especially after the success he had last year with it. I see no reason why you wouldn't have your Genesis cannon modified either. So there's my scouting report, but like you said, I agree that the meta did not shift. I know Throne looks different now, there's Postexilic stuff, and you have a few variations of Genesis decks, but I think the only standalone and competitive offense that really changed is Ruth from LoC. The thing is, do people in the T2 community think it is strong enough to hang with the decks/offenses we just talked about?
I liked your off-the-wall decks. I reallyyyyy wanted to make a silver/demon deck with Dragon's Wrath for that same reason you stated. It seems like hero abilities are at an all time high this season plus getting out 2-3 heroes first turn is the norm, so having a wipe out card that affects only your opponent and not you is a massive momentum shift that I think few decks can recover from. Even if they can, how quickly and efficiently could they recover? We should get in a skype session just to bounce some ideas around prior to nats since no one is getting facetime/playing time in.

Go gold:  Luke/John offense with a Herod defense. Boom.