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Just looking over it quickly you may want to consider adding more site access...
I think you have 2 access heroes (nahum), 1 kinda access enh-habakk stands watch, 1 access site, and 1 access art. A dedicated type 2 sitelock will have few problems taking care of that. The habakk stands watch is a cool one, though. Since you're playing phillies you could throw in the land dispute to grab access to sites as well, plus more habakk stands watch.

king amon/manassah-cool combo but with only 2 cards out of 105, not likely to show up, plus doesn't go with the phillies. Both are fairly useless by themselves. I would consider subbing them out for more phillies. If you are using them to spur on the philly outpost, I would consider doubling them both (amon x2, man x2) so you will get that going sooner. You may want to consider replacing lots wife, but she's immediately useful and female, so that is good. Playtesting should tell you if it's worth it. In a sadducee deck I had her in, but eventually took her out for another sadd because the "specific country enhancements" like high priests plot were useless on her. You may run into the same problem with many of your philly specific enhancements.

AOC's will be plentiful and can cause (any) defense problems w/o protect forts, which your phillies will be vulnerable to. I would consider getting more counters to this (darius decree is good, but you only have 1, and arts are vulnerable to cap ark x3).

Lurking is a cool card, but can only be used once. I would consider putting in kingdoms of this world x2 to counter the many choose the blocker offenses and place 2 phillies in there and you're set vs the garden tomb as well.

Hope this was helpful.  

Advice taken, and deck updated. I didn't know how popular Site Lockout was, so I didn't take it into account too much.

Cool-I updated my post w/more suggestions after looking at it (didn't know I could update my own posts!).
Yea, site lockout may not be very popular, but you're bound to run into it and when you do and aren't prepared, it's trouble. 

Hmmm...
I would also consider replacing hunger and pride o simon (good cards) with more useful nasty philly enhancements. Recursion is powerful in t1, but less so and less needed in t2 since you get to throw in multiples of powerful cards (unless you're spamming up I am holy-that's fun). 

fallen warrior is a good add
defence looks strong

needs more on offence:
it seems green is just hard to punch through for me sometimes
hidden treasures x3
tears for a friend or abel sacrifice xmore
provisions+shuffle your own guy is helpful especially if you got alot of unique guys on defence

definitely more darius decree

can you recover from your own ANB? does it help the overall deck any?
#s on benaiah being 4/5 with spears and bears is big too...

obadiahs cave is nice to have here good job overall

Alright, thanks for the advice everyone; I appreciate it. I updated my deck, so see what you think now.

i am healing.

No you're not.

No, he doesn't need I Am Healing. One, he doesn't have any Gold heroes to play it on as an enhancement. Two, he has other artifacts that need to be active (Carcasses). And three, he has Chariot of Fire plus Midwives x2. That is plenty to keep his Heroes alive.

However, I think you only need 2x Obadiah's Caves/Philistine Outpost. They will still usually come out, but once they do, you don't need the extras. I know you can get rid of the Outpost to get another Philistine, but typically, you're going to discard a different one.

By taking the Caves out, I would put in another Swords to Plowshares. Extra protection against weapons and you only have 1 right now.
By taking the Outpost out, I would put in another Lot's Wife. Extra banding plus another Evil Character is never a bad thing.

I would like to see some more evil enhancements like some Joseph in Prisons, but right now, you don't have any more room.
Otherwise, looks pretty good.

Eric "try the deck and see how you like it" Largent

I was thinking about that, but you only have 3 Chariots. If you want, you could take out the Swords to Plowshares for I Am Grace and take out an Obadiah's Caves and Abel's Sacrifice for 2x Plague of Frogs. That way it gives a battle winner for Midwives and Saint Patrick (since they aren't prophets).

Eric "green is great" Largent

I check the REG before I posted that, that's why I said that.
I guess that's yet another error entry there.

Eric "forgive my brown enhancement" Largent

Well the other GA type 2 guys posted so I have too.
GC's: 14
Benaiah-need more of him
Habakkuk
Hur-one out for benny
Joel
Micah x2
Midwives x2
Miriam x2-one out for benny
Nahum x2-Jeremiah
Nathan
Saint Patrick-Zechariah

GE's: 19-too much, do 18 enhs and add GOYS since you have search.
Abel’s Sacrifice x3-once you play this you will lose iniative i'd do more negates
Benaiah Snatches a Spear x2-  ^
Habakkuk Stands Watch x4-why 4? I would do 0.
Plague of Frogs x2-two more of these for Habakkuk Stands Watch
Provisions x2-2 more for Hababakkubbakkkukk
Search x3
Two Bears x2
Spiritual Warfare

Good Fortresses: 4
Obadiah’s Caves x2
Wall of Protection x2-you don't need 2 of these, maybe one at most. Take one out for storehouse or take this out and an evil card to make the deck smaller

Good Dominants: 4
Angel of the Lord
Grapes of Wrath
New Jerusalem
Son of God

Update on this deck: I have the current version on RTS, and I just played my first T2 game ever with Slugfencer! He had to leave, so we didn't get to finish, but I don't think his offense had a chance of breaking through my defense, and I had gotten rid of all his battle-winners and Philly Chariots with Harvest Time, so I probably would have trounced him, although he might have been able to lock me out with sites; I don't know how many he had. Anyway, I think I'm getting the hang of T2, and I'd like to play a few games with the regulars to get into the swing of things.

Update on this deck: I have the current version on RTS, and I just played my first T2 game ever with Slugfencer! He had to leave, so we didn't get to finish, but I don't think his offense had a chance of breaking through my defense, and I had gotten rid of all his battle-winners and Philly Chariots with Harvest Time, so I probably would have trounced him, although he might have been able to lock me out with sites; I don't know how many he had. Anyway, I think I'm getting the hang of T2, and I'd like to play a few games with the regulars to get into the swing of things.

Sorry I had to go, and you woulda beaten me easily no thanks to hidden treasures! 
That was fun and glad you like T2! 

But that's how Type 2 works. It's always been like that. But the up side is that you have to rescue 7, so SOG/NJ are not the main cards you wanna get (like in Type 1).

Eric "don't forget about experience credit and name-on-name" Largent

I don't have all the cards yet to make the physical deck. Besides that, my dad doesn't want to take me to small events at NHLC, because it's kind of far away, as you know. After December though, you might be seeing a lot more of me.

Quote from: BubbleBoy on August 28, 2009, 07:23:29 PM

Besides that, my dad doesn't want to take me to small events at NHLC, because it's kind of far away, as you know.

How would your dad feel about taking a short jaunt to West St. Paul? A new T2 player should be able to find a ride from there up to NHLC fairly easily.

That would be great! I still need to get all the cards first though. Once I get all set up I can start coming to game nights. (BTW, is there a schedule for NHLC events yet this year?)

Thanks Matt!