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Well no wonder it works well, its illegal.

The number of sites cannot exceed the number of lost souls.

Most of the cards on that list of optional cards were rares.  Scheaf never said the optional cards had to be (un)commons.

Schaef is this still going?  I have thought alot about building these types of decks so I'd like to get involved if I can

This is very short notice so I apologize for having to put a rush on this, but anyone who can submit more ideas in the next 12 hours, that would be great.

Given how long this thread has sat unfulfilled, I am going to try hard to finish getting the card stock into shape so that I can do what I wanted to do with these decks, and reward all faithful contributors with a pack of TxPs when they come out (it will probably take me at least that long to get my sand together) 

Just the ideas.  I have 50,000 cards in The Storehouse; I'll manage 

Cards in deck: 50
Lost Souls: 7
   Lost Soul
   Lost Soul
   Lost Soul
   Lost Soul
   Lost Soul
   Lost Soul
   Lost Soul

Lamb Dominants: 2
   Angel of the Lord
   Son of God

Grim Reaper Dominants: 2
   Burial
   Christian Martyr

Gold Sites: 1
   Jerusalem

Purple Sites: 2
   Herod's Temple
   Herod's Temple

Curse/Covenant Cards: 7
   Covenant of Salt
I am Redemption
I am Healing
I am Creator
   Covenant with Levi (Teal)
   Covenant with Phinehas (Teal)
   Unknown Nation (Yellow)

Multi-Color Heroes: 5
   Ahimaaz (Teal)
   Azariah the High Priest (Teal)
   Elishana the Priest (Teal)
   Jehoiada the High Priest (Teal)
   Zadok (Teal)

Purple Heroes: 3
   King Hezekiah
   King Jehoshaphat
   King Joash

Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 5
   Burning Incense (Teal)
   Jehoiada's Strength (Teal)
   Melchizedek's Blessing (Teal)
   Perpetual Priesthood (Teal)
   Purifying the Unclean (Teal)

Purple Hero Enhancements: 1
   Unified Kingdom

Black Evil Characters: 7
   Captain of the Temple Guard
   High Priest Annas
   High Priest Caiaphas
   Sadducees
   Sadducees
   Sadducees
   Sadducees

Black Evil Enhancements: 8
   Danites Attack
   False Witnesses
   Foolish Advice
   Intent to Kill
   Net
   Pride of Simon
   Pushed Back
   Worship of Milcom



This summary is from RTS. Sorry about how the Teal and the Covenants/Curses are in the wrong categories. They're marked though.

This offense is kinda cool I think. It utilizes four groups of two character banding. Elishama is a star here. With his ability, as long as Jehosophat is in play, you can play a OT enhancement from your discard pile onto a hero in your territory. Unified Kingdom or Jehoida's strength are definately my favorite choices. On Jehoiada, Jehoiada's stength is worth a massive 10/4! Unfortunately, Burning incense is NT, otherwise it'd be a great choice as well. All the characters were somehow related to Solomon's Temple.

On defense, you again have a lot of banding. A few extra cards were added to enhance their ability to combat decks that use negation. Captain of the Temple guard can use the two capture enhacnements included unnegateably if either Jerusalem or Herod's Temple is in play. Also, High Priests Annas and Caiphas offer the sadducees fairly large numbers. Caiaphas is also useful in a normal bout - his ability will let you search for any other saduccee in your deck and put it in your territory!


Additional Adds:

The Word Spreads
Authority of Christ (Unlimited)
High Priest's Palace
High Priest's Plot
Altar of Incense
Solomon's Temple

Lost Souls: 7
Sites: 7 - Place of Temptation, Hostile Environment, Dangerous Way, Desolate City, Dangerous Road, Jericho, Roman Prison
(My theory deck has fortresses instead of Jericho and Roman Prison.)

Dominants: 3 - SoG, Burial, AotL
Covenants: 4 - I Am Salvation, I Am Grace, I Am Redemption, I am Creator

ECs: 7 - 6 Panic Demons, Spirit of Doubt
EC enhancements: 7 - Retreat, Escape, Seeds of Doubt, Fear of Danger, Consumed by Doubt, Fearfulness, Enticed

Heroes: 7 - Swift, Arianna, Kira, Eli, Paladin, Gabriel (K), Watcher (PA)
H enhancements: 8 - Ears to Hear, Commissioned, Worshipping God, Three Angels, Protection of Angels (PS), Flaming Sword (K), Swift Beings, Winds
subst. Protection of Angels with Spiritual Sight.
subst. Flaming Sword with Eyes Open

The EC enhancements are all about preventing rescue attempts locking the hero in his territory unable to go to battle.  With the escape/retreat, you should be able to hold your panic demons so you can get more up, and the enticed strengthens them all.

The Hero enhancements are somewhat ridiculous in defense.  Worshipping God keeps your covenants from being discarded.  Commissioned makes sure there is a lost soul to rescue.  Ears to Hear makes sure that lost soul's special ability doesn't stop you.  Swift Beings to Winds combo prevents capture and continues the battle.  Three Angels is really your only purely offensive card.  Flaming Sword negates any enhancement.  (the subst. i mentioned is in my deck... it's more offensive in the numbers, and lets me know what is in their hand, as does the ec enhancement fearfulness.) 

The covenants do everything from returning captured heroes to your territory, to preventing your numbers from lowering, to healing all your heroes, to making sure you have a hero for your offense ready.


The weakness is sites.

TheKarazyvicePresidentRR  your first submission has Jael in it, which is not allowed (womens card).  Just thought you should know.

nvm reread the rules, I am an idiot carry on

Well I am a noob so to say so if you could tell me how to determine that a card is rare, I think I could come up with a set. but i dont understand why u need so many decks.