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The Book of Enoch. Artifact.

"Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael and all Genesis heroes may use Good Genesis enhancements of any brigade. If a lone Genesis prophet enters battle, you may discard The Book of Enoch to search your deck for New Beginning and play it, or a Silver brigade hero and band it into battle."
'Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: "See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him." These men are grumblers and faultfinders; they follow their own evil desires; they boast about themselves and flatter others for their own advantage.' Jude 1:14-16

Uriel 10/10 Warrior-class Silver hero: "If Tataros is in play, discard a card from your hand to place all demons in play, all draw piles, set asides, fortresses, and all discard piles in Tataros. If you do this and rescue attempt fails, relinquish control of your Tataros to your opponett and discard all of your Evil Characters in play".
Raphael 10/10 Warrior-class Silver hero: "Negate all special abilities on non-weapon class enhancements. No lost souls may be protected from rescue this turn."


Come on, if we can make heroes from angel wars names...

Well, this was more of a statement that if we can have Angel War cards, we should at least have the other two archangels.

What they should really do is make cards out of the Apostolic Fathers and use Eusebius as a reference. If we can cite Josephus for the Emperors, I see no reason why we couldn't use The History of the Church as a reference.

Think of it. Justin Martyr, Irenaeus, Polycarp, James the Righteous... mmm. Great card possibilities.

We have Saint Patrick.

Honestly though, having the four archangels would be SO MUCH FUN!

Perhaps there could be a way to get them to all work together, a kind of "hero-light".

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh.  I get it.  Carp.  Ha. 

Or is there some historical reference I have not heard.

I think Pol was working on a set based on the Early Church Fathers.

Quote from: Tsavong Lah on March 10, 2009, 01:57:59 AM

Polycarp,...

Special Ability: Ignores fish.

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Nice Pokemon reference.

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Or is there some historical reference I have not heard.

Ben got it. Polycarp was a fairly useless Pokémon character from the beginnings of that CCG. I collected when I was little.

Haha, shows how bad we are at Pokemon. After a quick wikipedia check I found Polycarp doesn't exist. Poliwag exists, Magikarp (the useless fish) exist, but there isn't a Polycarp.

I like your ideas Colin, but I would say that the Angel Wars cards should not have been made in the first place (the one's that are not biblical in origin) and that other cards that are not from the scriptures like St.Patrick and those based on non-biblical historians. The problem is that they were made, so does the game continue down that path or reverse direction? I think the Angel Wars thing was to attract younger players. The St.Patrick thing was done to attract Catholic players. And perhaps the non-biblical historian thing was done to attract people who don't consider the bible valid. Wow...at what point did I begin joking...LOL...I can't tell now...

So if we already went somewhere that perhaps we should have not then we can just continue going there? I am a little confused. Or are you saying it was no big deal then and it is still no big deal now?

I think both (some of) the Apocrypha and the Early Church Fathers could lead to some interesting cards. If we were voting, I would probably side with T-Lah and go with the early church fathers, although adding a WC Macabee or two would be fun.

I get it.  Carp.  Ha. 

Or is there some historical reference I have not heard.

There was no other reference intended. It was late and I was being silly.

The extended "haha..." was a sardonic jibe at myself for being so goofy.

"Sardonic Jibe" would be a good name for a band.

Haha, shows how bad we are at Pokemon. After a quick wikipedia check I found Polycarp doesn't exist. Poliwag exists, Magikarp (the useless fish) exist, but there isn't a Polycarp.

lol, fail for me. Poliwag does evolve into Magikarp, though, right? Am I at least slightly justified in the conflation of the two?

Thanks for ruining my dignity, YMT.

Then again, I guess I shouldn't feel too bad about not remembering my Pokémon.

I think both (some of) the Apocrypha and the Early Church Fathers could lead to some interesting cards. If we were voting, I would probably side with T-Lah and go with the early church fathers, although adding a WC Macabee or two would be fun.

Quote from: Bryon on March 10, 2009, 02:23:30 AM

I get it.  Carp.  Ha. 

Or is there some historical reference I have not heard.

There was no other reference intended. It was late and I was being silly.

The extended "haha..." was a sardonic jibe at myself for being so goofy.

"Sardonic Jibe" would be a good name for a band.

Odd.  I thought it was more of a Sardinic Jibe.   

Least he didn't list what lvls/Stones are needed to evolve.

Poliwhirl needs a King's Rock to become Politoed. Poliwhirl becomes Poliwrath at level 25, otherwise. Magikarp becomes Gyarados at level 20.

The 40-year-old recites the exact evolution line of two Pokemon and you're the one who lost dignity?

A 40-year-old dad of an 11-year-old Pokemon fan. When you become a dad, you will find that you will learn many seemingly trivial facts that will further the father/son dialogue. Likewise, father/daughter dialogue is currently enhanced by the fact that I know the words and hand motions to every Barney, Wiggles, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and Dora the Explorer song.

Couple of things, first I wouldn't mind seeing a couple of cards based off of the Apocrypha or Early Church Fathers. Might be intersting. However, I'm not sure how Rob being Catholic comes into play. Don't get me wrong, I don't have anything against Rob or Catholics, and wouldn't mind seeing some cards from the Apocrypha, do I personally believe it as Scripture? Does the majority of the Redemtion Players? Could be a mixed reaction to this, like there was with Angel Wars. Don't mean to start a huge theological debate on this, least not here, but I'd kinda like to see a couple of cards from the books sooner or later.   

In that case, it might not be a good idea to release the apocrypha as a "set" but rather release cards from the apocrypha gradually (Josephus and Angel Wars have already opened the door for this to happen).

Sorry to necropost but here you go Colin.

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