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Best Tabernacle deck out there
« on: August 15, 2018, 07:17:02 PM »
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The Tabernacle

Aaron’s Staff
The Silver Trumpets
Ark of the Covenant
The Bronze Laver
David’s Harp

Glory of the Lord
Three Woes
Son of God
Angel of the Lord
The Second Coming
Christian Martyr
Rubble and Dust

The Angel under the Oak
Eli the Priest
Aaron
Ahimaaz
Ithamar, son of Aaron
Phinehas, son of Eleazar
Eleazar, son of Aaron
Melchizedek
Chenaniah
David, the Psalmist

Hate wickedness
Cymbals of the levites
Benedictus
Eli’s sound advise
Self control
First fruits
The Lord goes before you
Hope
Pentecost
Passover & unleavened bread
Perpetual priesthood
Phinehas’ spear
Today

Phi as, son of Eli
Hophni, son of Eli
Phygellus
Hermogenes
Nebuchadnezzar
Axe
Belshazzar banquet
Deceitful sun

Lost souls
Acts 11:18
Acts 16:22
II Timothy 2:26
Hebrews 2:15
Herbrews 12:8
Hebrews 5:11
Jeremiah 17:9

Reserve
Uzzah
Joy
Bronze Cymbals
Sing with stringed instruments
Zeal for the lord
Jehoiada’s Strength
Holy unto the lord


I’ve been testing this for a few months and with all these blocks
It works.
I won today turn 4 with only 11 cards in deck left
5 to 0 it’s fast and I have played it  against The throne deck let me know what you think. I also have played this with evil priests and it’s not bad I just couldn’t get it to work would love to have a priest/Tabernacle deck with good priests and bad.
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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2018, 08:21:40 PM »
+1
AutO and David but no Samuel?  :o

When posting decklists, I'd recommend using the nicknames of the Lost Souls instead of their references - most of us don't have them memorized ;) (For the reference of anyone else: NT only, Retribution, Escape, Slaves, Lawless, Dull, Punisher)

I will say that I like including musicians - I don't think I've actually seen a Musician Tabernacle deck yet. I've thought about building some kind of hybrid but never really got much past including Moses.

I personally think that any deck with more than one High Priest (and many with only one) should run Urim and Thummim. It basically doesn't cost an artifact slot and gives a free look at their hand. That information can be invaluable.
I'm not sure I like the Silver Trumpets in this deck. You don't have any characters that act as battlewinners (though since you do have Dave, I could see tossing in Ahimalek), so any time you could use it to band or return you'd rather play an enhancement (which you should have no shortage of, since you have access to Tabernacle).
I like Bronze Laver, but I'm not sure if you have enough evil cards to be worth it. I obviously haven't played the deck, but I feel like that with an eight card defense, when you do get evil cards you want to keep them so you can actually block.
One combo I personally like is running with Priests is Seventh Seal, with Trumpet Blast and Trumpet and Sword in the Reserve. Seventh Seal can grab either of those enhancements, and even if you don't need them right then you can use them for Tabernacle. Especially fun to swap them right back to Reserve!
One other thing I'd recommend: Covenant of Prayer and You Will Remain should go in most decks, IMO.

I'm not sure Rubble and Dust is worth it, especially since you don't have any ways to place cards on opponent's characters. I'd replace it with a Falling Away or a Grapes, if you have one available.

I feel like any musicians deck should have Music Leaders. Even if the focus is Tabernacle and not pure music, between the musicians and the music enhancements I think the bonus speed and recursion would help.
I think if you have Aaron you should have Moses - even if you only use the straight gold version (to play around Melchizedek and possibly Music Leaders) he's a musician and Aaron bands to him for a 14/12 FBTN, which is pretty good. Also AutO can grab him, if you need to.
Even though he's not Tabernacle, Joshua the High Priest is incredible. He's House of Eleazar, so Eleazar can pull him (assuming you're using the PC Eleazar - if not, I highly recommend you do), and all his enhancements are CBN.
Dutiful Priests is another great hero. Not giving the opponent a chance to play is always a good strategy. Along with this, I'd strongly recommend Gifts and Offerings. It is the second best teal enhancement, IMO, after Zeal.
And again, if you're running both AutO and David, I see no reason to not run Samuel. I get that AutO is there for Eli, but having a second target (not to mention one that draws two and tutors another one of your heroes) is pretty good.

I notice that you have four main deck and two reserve enhancements that are pure white, while only having two white heroes. In your experience with the deck, do you ever feel like you have more white enhancements than you can play?
You have 10 heroes and 22 enhancements (13 main deck, 9 reserve). Those balances seem off to me. I'd personally go through and cut about half the enhancements. Figure out which ones aren't giving you any value, which ones you never end up playing or just use for Tabernacle fodder, and get rid of them.
I feel like you'd be remiss not to run Temple Dedication.

The defense seems small to me, but hey - if it works, it works. Three suggestions: The Wages of Sin, Death of Unrighteous, and Scattered. Wages grabs all sorts of fun things, DoU can turn a lone son of Eli into a block, in a way that they can't interrupt, and Scattered can not only be a CBN block, but it can slow down opponents who now have to pull their whole banding chain back from the bottom of their deck.

Do you actually have a way to grab Uzzah from Reserve? That seems like it'd be a good idea.

Disclaimer: Before FoM dropped, I ran my own Tabernacle deck. Take everything I say with a grain of salt - some of these suggestions might be trying to turn this into that deck.
« Last Edit: August 15, 2018, 10:09:08 PM by Bobbert »
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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2018, 08:58:16 PM »
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So On first turn bronze laver and Eli went out and got both his sons next turn I got  Nebuchadnezzar and I had banquet I under decked all Eli’s sons and banguet drew 3 and got tabernacle. And I did it the next turn also. Went out with Eli that turn got them both again and next turn under decked them on the 3rd turn I have all my heroes out and at the end of turn 3 I had 4lost souls and won on turn 4 it’s amazing. I have had Moses in the deck and moved away from him. I also had  Joshua and moved awa6 couldn’t get them to world like I wanted but I’m thinking about putt8ng him back the.  Deceiver is in the deck sorry. I’m going to add a few of the cards you said and see how it’s word also thinking about adding the Angel that gets a heroe / cloud  Heroes

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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2018, 09:18:06 PM »
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Bobbert gives excellent advice! Makes me want to go build my own version.
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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2018, 09:19:41 PM »
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Gabe I’ve added a few a took out a few took out Aaron so no Moses adding in  Joshua the high priest but I didn’t have him so I have to Buy him

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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2018, 10:03:25 PM »
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I actually really like the idea of using Eli, his sons, and Laver. Especially combining that with AutO so it's a d4 and you always have the option to block with them  ;D I might have to try that at some point...

If you aren't adding Moses I think Aaron is a good cut. Not much need for protecting Tabernacle arts when you have Glory anyway...
Deciever is a great card. If you cut a few of the Reserve enhancements, I might consider a Foreign Wives in Reserve as an alternate target for him. One other idea is a Belshazzar, since he can grab his banquet from discard.
ANB is good. Change my mind.

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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2018, 10:11:55 PM »
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I’m telling you it’s a good deck. On turn 4 I think I had 11 card left in my deck. It’s sick. And it’s been faster yes no Moses so I cut out Aaron.

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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #7 on: August 15, 2018, 10:22:21 PM »
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The Tabernacle

Aaron’s Staff
The Silver Trumpets
Ruin and Thummim
The Bronze Laver
David’s Harp

Glory of the Lord
Three Woes
Son of God
Angel of the Lord
The Second Coming
Christian Martyr
Falling away

The Angel under the Oak
Eli the Priest
Ahimaaz
Ithamar, son of Aaron
Phinehas, son of Eleazar
Eleazar, son of Aaron
Melchizedek
Chenaniah
David, the Psalmist
Samuel
Joshua the high priest

Cymbals of the levites
First fruits
Temple dedication
Eli’s sound advise
Self control
Pentecost
Phinehas’ spear
Gifts and offerings

The Deceiver
Phinehas, son of Eli
Hophni, son of Eli
Phygellus
Hermogenes
Nebuchadnezzar
Belshazzar
Fire foxes
Axe
Belshazzar banquet
Deceitful sun
Dream
Scattered

Lost souls
NT only
Retribution
Escape
Slaves
Lawless
Dull
Punisher

Reserve
Uzzah
Hate wickedness
Bronze Cymbals
Sing with stringed instruments
Zeal for the lord
Jehoiada’s Strength
Holy unto the lord
Jordan interrupted
Melchizedek blessing
Trump blast

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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2018, 10:30:11 PM »
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at one point On turn 2 I had 15 cards in my hand and it was amazing :) my brother was like wow. And it’s was my first 5/0 win with this deck ohers have been 5/3 mostly

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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #9 on: August 16, 2018, 08:18:58 AM »
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So On first turn bronze laver and Eli went out and got both his sons next turn I got  Nebuchadnezzar and I had banquet I under decked all Eli’s sons and banguet drew 3 and got tabernacle. And I did it the next turn also.

I actually really like the idea of using Eli, his sons, and Laver. Especially combining that with AutO so it's a d4 and you always have the option to block with them  ;D I might have to try that at some point...

Searching out Eli's sons just to underdeck them with Bronze Laver is actually an inefficient draw engine.  For comparison, Jair does the same thing, except he requires 1 less card, doesn't burn your valuable Art slot, doesn't trigger Dull LS, gets better initiative, and doesn't require you to include 2 suboptimal ECs in your deck.
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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #10 on: August 16, 2018, 08:34:10 AM »
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Its not to just to underdeck them but its what i was able to do that turn because i had other things in my hand to make blocks

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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2018, 10:20:25 AM »
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In terms of repeatable drawing, it might be the best engine Tabernacle has--especially since Laver can go in Tabernacle.
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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #12 on: August 16, 2018, 11:10:21 AM »
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once in play testing I drew a 7 cards evil hand and Laver so i had options 

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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #13 on: August 16, 2018, 11:11:41 AM »
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In terms of repeatable drawing, it might be the best engine Tabernacle has--especially since Laver can go in Tabernacle.

No, you just use Pentecost or First Fruits, block with Scribe to underdeck it, get it back with Zadok Anoints Solomon, and get ZAS back with Tabernacle!  ;)

Man, if only there was another option...  ::)

Joking aside, drawing is historically one of the weaker sides of priests (FF and Pentecost being the options they have, of course), with their main strength being in searching. Laver is really best when paired with Gates of Hell, to underdeck demons and get them back for free.

On a related note, dstair, one of the weaknesses of Eli's sons is that they're interruptible. Running a PG negate, in case the opponent has any kind of good interrupt at all, might be worth considering.
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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #14 on: August 16, 2018, 11:23:40 AM »
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Agreed Bobbert

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Re: Best Tabernacle deck out there
« Reply #15 on: August 26, 2018, 08:58:26 AM »
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I played in a Tour. Yesterday put a few cards in making my deck 56 cards and come in 2nd. I’ve cut 6 cards and will be playing again soon the deck is faster then you may think.
« Last Edit: August 26, 2018, 02:47:23 PM by dstair2002 »

 


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