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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Redemption® Resources and Thinktank => Strategies and Combos => Topic started by: Alex-CB on August 02, 2008, 01:50:52 PM
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Well, I'm in the process of making a new deck and I want the Offense to be mostly Red Brigade, but the only problem is that I have never used the Red Brigade and I need some good strategies. I want to use both NT and OT so I can get the NT Only LS. Any suggestions?
Thanks in Advance,
Alex-cb
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Gamaliel is a pretty good inishative nt guy. chloe and mentor and tabitha are also fun with nt's. red is all about banding. Adino can play a big part in a all red offence.
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Mentor-Chloe/Tabitha and or Peter+walking on water does wonders with all the kill the FOB cards.
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Red Brigade is all about having all O.T Red either with the Abishi Bro Band (old school warriors style) or by warrior blass banding to the heavens. Then you have about 4 negates and 6 battle winners and your ready to go.
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I use red offenses with no o.t. wc banding. You can focus on the banding but you can also focus on the battle winners/negeates.
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I use red offenses with no o.t. wc banding. You can focus on the banding but you can also focus on the battle winners/negeates.
+ 1 thats what I use plus its always fun to use warriors cards :)
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Abishai + FooF tin 1 = Great banding.
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Abishai + FooF tin 1 = Great banding.
Abishai + Foof tin 1 = Numbers that are far too big to do anything cept negate stuff that cant be negated.
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using blue tassles will help with that since most cbn stuff is capture based.
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Jephthah helps to get rid of characters before they can block.
Jael is good to choose the blocker.
Recruiting Officer gives you site access and can generate a Lost Soul when he's defeated.
Amasai the Raider gives you a red brigade Gabriel.
Seeker of the Lost is also red and has a nice non-negatable SA to pull out LSs.
Nahari becomes particularly useful if your opponent has Confusion of Mind active.
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Captain of the Host + Gathering of Angels
Caleb (10/7) , Men of Judah (12/12) , Army of Simeonites (11/11), Captain of the Host (10/10)
43/40=WIN
If opponent stops Captain, play Red's battlewinners and "If used by Warrior Class" cards. :D
I love my red/gray deck. :)
Alhough...
Your attack: 43/40 with Captain negating + Opponent's The Trap of the Devil= DOAH!
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Jephthah helps to get rid of characters before they can block.
Jael is good to choose the blocker.
Recruiting Officer gives you site access and can generate a Lost Soul when he's defeated.
Amasai the Raider gives you a red brigade Gabriel.
Seeker of the Lost is also red and has a nice non-negatable SA to pull out LSs.
Nahari becomes particularly useful if your opponent has Confusion of Mind active.
All those are must haves when using a red deck cept I prefer to change some of them out but thats not the point :P
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I forgot to mention that Jael and Seeker are female. Also, Seeker is New Testament.
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I once got up to 105 with the red bands. (this was in type 2 with a good amount of counters and gatherings)
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Nahari+The Sabbath...win a RA.
Nahari+Ram's Horn...win a RA.
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blk'ed by kot..oops you lose at least one of those ;P
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Red has a variety of ways to deal with King of Tyrus, including The Might of Faith and territory killing via Jephthah, Passover & Unleavened Bread, and others. The Sabbath is still very effective against him too, it's just the Ram's Horn one that wouldn't've worked out that time. Namaan + Chariot is also very effective. Red deserves much more credit than it gets.
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Passover & Unleavened Bread is one of my fave cards for red
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To clarify with Jephthah, his SA has to complete before a blocker is presented. He can discard King of Tyrus before it can ever enter battle.
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unless he's in your hand..DUN DUN DUN
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McCravy, you seem to have a thing for KoT... what's with that?
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lol idk, i don't even use him in any of my decks :P
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Is it his numbers? His FbtN ability? His rugged good looks? Come on, what's the deal?
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it's because i only have one :'( :'( :'( :'(
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I meant about your subconscious' affinity for him, not why he's not in any of your decks :P
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Ok. So I always planned on using Naharai but I wasn't too sure of who else to use. Eventually I came up with this conglomerate of Heroes:
Adino
Gad
Heldai
Naharai
Seeker of the Lost
Isrealite Archer
Helez
I really want to keep Naharai and Gad because I plan to have The Sabbath and Rams Horn for Naharai, and Passover Prep for Gad.
You guys think this is good or what would you change, while keeping in Gad and Naharai?
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I would think Abishai would be a stronger choice than Helez.
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Soo,
Adino
Abishai
Gad
Heldai
Naharai
Seeker of the Lost
Isrealite Archer
And I just came up with another idea:
Mephibosheth
King Hiram
Kings Daughter or Esther
Naharai
Heldai
Abishai
Naharai
I'm kind of leaning towards the Red/Purple but what do you guys think?
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Captain of the Host + Gathering of Angels
Caleb (10/7) , Men of Judah (12/12) , Army of Simeonites (11/11), Captain of the Host (10/10)
43/40=WIN
If opponent stops Captain, play Red's battlewinners and "If used by Warrior Class" cards. :D
I love my red/gray deck. :)
Alhough...
Your attack: 43/40 with Captain negating + Opponent's The Trap of the Devil= DOAH!
Don't forget Caleb's sword or any other of wepon class enchantment.
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Israelite Archer
Abishai
Caleb
Men of Judah
Army of Simeonites
Seeker of the Lost
Naharai
Gad
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I meant to put don't forget Caleb's sword and any other kind of weapon class enchantment on the outside of that quote.
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If you want to use red, you could go one of the following ways.
1. You can make mass banding combos
2. You can use passover prep. and battle winners
3. You can use initiative warrior class heroes, ram's horns and battle winners
4. You can combine two or more of the above.
Red isn't new and flashy, but it has classics that are still awesome today!
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For OT char. you should use either mass bands or initiative warrior class heroes.
Although you shouldn't forget Jephthah because he's a red staple.
For NT char. you should use Chloe because she's also female and can draw a card.
If you want a different way to go, you can use Christian Soldier, Gad, Hushai and Asahel with passover prep.
Make sure if you use red, to stock up on battle winners.
Freedom (x5)
Jail's Nail (x5)
Baggage (?#)
Power of the Cross (?#)
David's Mighty Men (?#)
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I also believe red is better than most people think.
It doesn't have new cheap strategies, but it has a lot of battle winners and should be respected for that.
Red is a color that is extremely good yet not cheap.
Some other colors rely on new cheap strategies but red mostly uses the same things since the 3rd edition.
Red is my favorite brigade, and in my opinion the best!
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capturing Cannnan is a must
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I also believe red is better than most people think.
It doesn't have new cheap strategies, but it has a lot of battle winners and should be respected for that.
Red is a color that is extremely good yet not cheap.
Some other colors rely on new cheap strategies but red mostly uses the same things since the 3rd edition.
Red is my favorite brigade, and in my opinion the best!
Define cheap? Like aocp abuse?
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AOCP abuse is one of the things I meant,
as well as the Teal brigade and Plague of frogs (the green enhancement)
Hidden Treasures is also cheap and should have a use limit on it.
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How is it cheap? Green has ONE card that kills in territory.
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He said HT, not HT with pure Green.
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That is true, with training In r+a green person it could be nasty.
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Who needs training in righteousness? Zechariah with Table of Showbread ftw.
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That too, but TIR=you can play NT enh too and it only takes up one slot.
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Well you could use any Evil High Priest, but Zechariah is also a Z-temple Priest.
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I guess I'm lost, but besides being able to use Scapegoat, what benefits are you deriving from Caiaphas being high?
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I think I'd value Zerubbabel's Temple's protection (and banding with Haggai and such) over the one or two cards you might use with Caiaphas, besides having to convert him.
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You can use U&T without converting him and I don't really fear Ignore. You can Ignore me all you want, but if you can't get into my Sites it doesn't matter.
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I like letting Naharai die before he gets too much experience,
so his ability comes in handy with 5 in my deck.
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I use mostly low numbered warrior class heroes like Naharai and Spy in combination with Ram's horn.
It's nice when I have initiative and my enhancements can't be interupted.
Also, Ram's horn helps with my little site access.
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Yeah, that can be nice sometimes, but I think the best strategy with red is giant banding chains with lots of negates. (You can throw in Spy and Naharai, too.)
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Spy is a great addition. 8)
Alex CB, I have found that Red brigade, when turned into a "Mill" offense can work wonders. For example, I have found a lot of power can come from Jahaziel son of Zechariah+Kerith Ravine.
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I prefer battle winners to banding and I think it's often more likely to get the lost soul.
However I enjoy banding as well, I just hope that cards will get made to help out against cards that negate banding.
(Household idols, King of Tyrus etc...)
In my deck I use 5 Freedom's, 5 Jail's Nails, 3 Baggages and 2 or 3 David's Mighty Men.
I Reeeally like battle winners!
My many battle winners go great with initiative characters.
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Oh, you play T2? Well, that's a little different; banding chains don't work too well in T2. I can definitely see 5 Ram's Horns being really fun. :) In T1 though, banding chains work very well with negates (along with a few art killers), because your opponent has to kill all of you, and all you have to do is make sure he doesn't kill all of you...by using negates of course.
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I actually prefer type 2 over type 1.
With banding it's useful to add in Adino with his spear.
That negates quite well and in addition, makes you immune to gold brigade.
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Yeah, it's pretty fun to band Heldai to Abishai to Adino with his Spear for that 30/28 FbtN (mostly) combo. And that can go in just about any kind of deck as well.
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Yeah, I think that Adino should go in every red deck just like Jephthah.
They're staples for a purely red deck.
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Yeah, I think that Adino should go in every red deck just like Jephthah.
They're staples for a purely red deck.
Adino is a must-have for most Red decks, I agree with that, but I would have to disagree with your approval for Jepthah. He is a powerful character indeed, but for many players like myself, he is not worth the risk of discarding that random card from deck. Of course, I am excepting the LSL deck, but LSL decks are typically not confined to the Red brigade.
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I can see why you say that, but I like the chance of discarding a lost soul.
Besides I usually don't lose out that badly.
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I can see why you say that, but I like the chance of discarding a lost soul.
Besides I usually don't lose out that badly.
The best deck I ever made was a Red/Crimson deck that I had modified for well over 3 years. I used Jepthah frequently, but I found that the "one-time" ability was a turnoff, despite the risks involved. In a game where I used Battle Cry every turn, Jepthah soon became a dead weight. As far as stand-alone offenses are concerned, Jepthah is nice, but he is easily thwarted with all of the FoOF & Priest "Protection Fortresses."
As for getting rid of a lost soul, I would only really consider that when making a LSL deck. With new cards appearing like the Thankful Leper, the discarding of lost souls looks like it might be over-rated.
In the whole scheme of things, by simply leaving your offense to chance, you might eventually come to the same conclusion that I have reached after hours of consideration; Jepthah is not always worth it. Jepthah is too unpredictable for me.
If you feel like you don't lose out that badly, that may be because you don't have nearly enough to lose in your deck. (I don't mean this to sound rude, but I have found the "risk" factor to be my judge when I build a deck. It is also for this reason that I almost yelled when I saw the cardlist for RoA.)
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I just have enough copies of my battle winners that losing 1 card rarely matters to me.
Besides I like using Jephthah, even just for the fun of the risk.
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I just have enough copies of my battle winners that losing 1 card rarely matters to me.
Besides I like using Jephthah, even just for the fun of the risk.
After reading your other posts I would agree with you as far as Type 2 is concerned, since I suspect that is where you are coming from. Nevertheless, for Type 1, I still hold to my previous comments. The larger the deck, the greater the allowance for risk, but since I typically play with 50-63 card decks, I am always apprehensive when dealing with the "Risk" factor. :)
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Yeah, for type 1, I tend to lean more towards banding combos instead of battle winners.
In that case I might leave Jephthah out of the deck.
I just prefer playing type 2.
In fact I made a topic on the boards that mentions a type 1 deck that I made using red banding.
It's called Theme Defense if you'd like to look at it.
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You know, ever since I discarded SoG from the top of my deck with Jephthah, I have never used him in a deck again. If I ever made a Red/Brown deck, though, Jephthah, Haman, and Zeresh would be my very favorite characters.
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I'll never stop using Jephthah because he's helped me more than he's hindered me.
Although I do see your point, but I just really like using him.
I'm kind of obsessive compulsive that way about selective things.
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Yeah, for type 1, I tend to lean more towards banding combos instead of battle winners.
In that case I might leave Jephthah out of the deck.
I just prefer playing type 2.
In fact I made a topic on the boards that mentions a type 1 deck that I made using red banding.
It's called Theme Defense if you'd like to look at it.
I looked at your deck. It has some similar properties to mine, except that I don't use the Big Red band. I use a shortcut.... 8)
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Cool. It's neat talking with others who use red brigade.
Most of the people that I usually play with don't use red.
I personally favor red over all.
It's my favorite color and has my favorite card which you probably already knew.
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I like Jael and Jael's Nail, personally.
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I like Jail's Nail quite a bit as well, but I like freedom more!
The card reminds me of the concept of being free!
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You can only have 3 rams horns in t2. I had a red t2 deck but the combo I had came out WAY too slow. I used jahaziel to place Valor of warriors on the FOOF heroes. Then giant banding chain vs 1 enh and my hand full of negates. I had iaredemption for artifacts/Dungeons.
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I prefer initiative with Naharai or Spy using battle winners rather than banding and negates for type 2.
For type 1 I prefer banding. Also, adding Adino with his spear helps with negating things and makes you immune to gold brigade.
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Yeah same. I used supa gad (cbn gad via pass prep + chemosh to make it 6/1) also. Gad worked decently my t2 one took too long to set up.
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Cool. My friend used to have a passover preparations deck.
It took setting up, but was quite useful against me once his heroes came back.
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pshhh Red is overrated ;)
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You used a red banding deck for a bit, didn't you? It probably didn't work too well; there was something not quite right about it.
http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=13809.0 (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=13809.0)
You had, like, a bunch of random characters, and just...weird things, with not enough negates.
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Cool. It's neat talking with others who use red brigade.
Most of the people that I usually play with don't use red.
I personally favor red over all.
It's my favorite color and has my favorite card which you probably already knew.
Red has the most background out of all of the brigades, but I have not used it lately because I personally thought it was slighted by Rock of Ages. Furthermore, I have been using a role-reversal deck that I love. Nevertheless, I am sure that I will bring back my Red deck for Tournament use.
Edit: Un-shun!
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I don't believe you got that the deck I'm using right now is Red and is the best deck I have played :laugh: it was a joke
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Well, I can't tell whose decks are good anymore because I've been beating everyone with my Musician deck. :laugh: You may have been doing very well against others.
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Lol yeah I was owning before it d/c'd.
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My first deck used Red and although I've made more decks, I've stuck by Red since the beginning.
My Red deck is both my favorite deck and my primary deck for tournaments.
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Christian Soldier (4/4) + Passover Preparations + Windows of Narrow Light = awesome
Epaphras, Chloe and Tabitha are all good N.T. Red heroes that nobody uses. Red does have good banding and O.T. cards, but has a lot of viable N.T. heroes as well. I think that a Red offense that utilized both O.T. and N.T. strategies could be very effective.
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Christian Soldier (4/4) + Passover Preparations + Windows of Narrow Light = awesome
Chloe and Tabitha are all good N.T. Red heroes that nobody uses. Red does have good banding and O.T. cards, but has a lot of viable N.T. heroes as well. I think that a Red offense that utilized both O.T. and N.T. strategies could be very effective.
I use Chloe x2 in my Red deck because she's N.T. and female which helps with lost soul access.
The rest of the characters in my Red deck are O.T.
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Christian Soldier (4/4) + Passover Preparations + Windows of Narrow Light = awesome
Epaphras, Chloe and Tabitha are all good N.T. Red heroes that nobody uses. Red does have good banding and O.T. cards, but has a lot of viable N.T. heroes as well. I think that a Red offense that utilized both O.T. and N.T. strategies could be very effective.
= Doesn't work. Pass prep gives hima s.a. :(
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That's a gained ability, not a special ability. Since the card doesn't actually have a special ability on it, Windows would work.
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No it wouldn't :-/ Lemme find the thread. (And what is a gain ability? a gained SPECIAL ability).
http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=12594.msg191965#msg191965 (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=12594.msg191965#msg191965)
Bubble burst. :(
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lol the best strategy is CBN BAND! meaning the big bad band of Samual and Corinthins then play The Stars to band in CoTH (wa) and you have a CBN band and you can ressurrect the stars with Book of Gad the Seer to do it all over again :)
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No it wouldn't :-/ Lemme find the thread. (And what is a gain ability? a gained SPECIAL ability).
http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=12594.msg191965#msg191965 (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=12594.msg191965#msg191965)
Bubble burst. :(
Q _ Q
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You could use Windows of Narrow Light on the characters before you draw passover prep.
Passover prep. can be terribly annoying when it's set up, I just wouldn't want to wait that long.
I prefer Red battle winners on Red warrior class heroes with Ram's Horn.
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You know what's really great about Red Brigade? - All the wonderful site accesses!
Caleb (Lets you use your opponent's site, and they almost always have a DR or PL or something)
Dodai (Discard Pergamum? Yes please! Would you like some Dragon Raid for dessert? You bet! ;D)
Recruiting Officer (Access to any site, and if that doesn't work out you can give your opp another Lost Soul)
Zalmon (Could I have the second half of the resurrected 2-Liner please?)
Throw in a Dragon Raid and you're set!
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Eh, it's not worth it to put in Ethan, as it ruins both the red brigade and the warrior-class themes. If you could find a way to convert him to red though, that could be kind of nice.
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Eh, it's not worth it to put in Ethan, as it ruins both the red brigade and the warrior-class themes. If you could find a way to convert him to red though, that could be kind of nice.
Gold Shield. :-\
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For the N.T. only lost soul, I would use Chloe.
She's N.T. and female, so she can also get the female lost soul.
For the O.T. characters, I would recommend low numbered warrior class heroes. (ex. Naharai and Spy)
Ram's Horn and battle winners with initiative characters are quite fun!
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Ram's Horn (Priests):
Type: Artifact • Special Ability: Enhancements used by good Priests and warrior class Heroes cannot be interrupted. If your rescue attempt is successful, discard this card and one single-color Site from each opponent’s territory.
It gives your WC heroes' enhancements CBI status, which makes it so that your initiative characters (such as Naharai or Spy) can play the first enhancement, and their opponent can't do anything about it. *razzle* Also, if you win, you can discard a site. ;D
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I don't have lots of site access in my deck, so Ram's Horn is great for eliminating sites.
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Well, it's not as if it was my idea. ::)
I don't have lots of site access in my deck.
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Caleb (Lets you use your opponent's site, and they almost always have a DR or PL or something)
Dodai (Discard Pergamum? Yes please! Would you like some Dragon Raid for dessert? You bet! ;D)
Recruiting Officer (Access to any site, and if that doesn't work out you can give your opp another Lost Soul)
Zalmon (Could I have the second half of the resurrected 2-Liner please?)
Throw in a Dragon Raid and you're set!
Which of these don't you have?
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I don't have Dragon Raid, and I don't use Recruiting Officer.
Recruiting Officer didn't make the cut, my other heroes are more important.
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Could I take a peek at your deck? After all, I am a deck doctor in training. ;D
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Here's my Red deck.
Naharai 1/1 (x5)
Spy 3/2 (x3)
Chloe 4/4 (x2)
Adino 6/6 (x1)
Jephthah 7/4 (x1)
Amasai the Raider 9/9 (x1)
Freedom 0/0 (x5)
Baggage 0/0 (x3)
The Battle is the Lord's 0/0 (x5)
Might of Faith 3/0 (x1)
Jail's Nail 3/1 (x5)
Adino's Spear 3/2 (x1)
I Am Creator 3/3 (x1)
Caleb's sword 3/2 (x2)
David's Mighty Men 5/2 (x3)
King Pekahiah 1/1 (x5)
Uzzah 3/2 (x1)
Syrian Archer 3/5 (x2)
King Ben-Hadad I 7/7 (x1)
Naaman 8/7 (x3)
King Cushan-Rishathaim 8/8 (x1)
Emperor Nero 10/7 (x1)
False Peace 0/0 (x2)
Bearing Bad News 0/0 (x3)
Momentum Change 0/0 (x3)
Gold Shield 0/5 (x2)
Unknown Nation 0/6 (x1)
Unsuccessful 0/6 (x3)
Captured Ark 1/5 (x1)
Namman's Chariot and Horses 2/2 (x5)
Balaam's Disobedience 2/3 (x5)
Son of God
Angel of the Lord
New Jerusalem
Wall of Protection
Storehouse
Christian Martyr
Burial
Falling Away
Destruction of Nehushtan
House of Rimmon
The Darkness
New Jerusalem (site)
Chariot Of Fire
Holy Of Hollies
Priestly Crown
Ram's Horn (x3)
Blue Tassels
King's Sword
Asherah Pole
The Hopper Lost Soul
16 Lost Souls
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failsauce only about 3 of those guys should be x5 if any
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you should add holy ground it's a negate
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I like having 5 of multiple characters. It has served me well.
The battle is the Lord's is also a negate, which usually tends to be more effective.
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is spy warrior class?
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Yeah
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Once you run out of rams horns what do you do? Seems like a negate would kill any of ur other battle winners.
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I have enough battle winners to out do the amount of negates in most decks.
Besides, I have 5 negates of my own.
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Maybe its cuz I use evil gold but it seems like a good KOT X 3 and ruthless X5 could put the hurtin' on ya.
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I also have both Holy of Hollies and The Might of Faith.
Both of which negate King of Tyrus' ability.
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I also have both Holy of Hollies and The Might of Faith.
Both of which negate King of Tyrus' ability.
umm king of tyrus cant be negated lol unless ther is a card that says so. even then its usless cause not every one uses king of tyrus lol
King of Tyrus can be negated by an artifact. An enhancement would have to be CBN in order to have the same effect. Furthermore, there are a lot of players who use KoT and other FTBN evil characters.
On both accounts I would have to disagree.
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well 1 yes I did. Cuz I chose my words poorly. Hoh can be lugged, though might of faith I did miss.
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What does lol mean?
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What does lol mean?
Laugh out loud. It was the original digital laugh.
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Okay, I just don't know all of the abbreviations that people tend to use.
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Okay, I just don't know all of the abbreviations that people tend to use.
I don't either. I use wikipedia when I have no clue about slang terms and acronyms. I only knew LOL because it has been around since AOL (America On-Line) first made internet chat a staple of American households back in the late 80's.
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Okay cool. Thanks for the help.
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I also have both Holy of Hollies and The Might of Faith.
Both of which negate King of Tyrus' ability.
umm king of tyrus cant be negated lol unless ther is a card that says so. even then its usless cause not every one uses king of tyrus lol
King of Tyrus can be negated by an artifact. An enhancement would have to be CBN in order to have the same effect. Furthermore, there are a lot of players who use KoT and other FTBN evil characters.
On both accounts I would have to disagree.
lol have you ever had KoT fight CotH? its funny CotH over powers KoT though lol.
Uhm if no Enh are played KOT beats COTH.
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There's a reason why enhancements have abilities, it's so that you can use them!
If its just negate all, you might as well not have abilities at all on characters or enhancements.
The main reason cannot be negated exists, is to counter negate all.
I would much rather have neither than both.
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Uhm if no Enh are played KOT beats COTH.
Also, RA with COtH allows KoT to use banding cards. CotH also allows a block by characters who can band to KoT, like Gomer or Fallen Angel.
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or Lot's Wife to Gomer to Fallen Angel to KoT - 22/26 FbtN :D
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What's RA?
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What's RA?
RA = Rescue Attempt
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or Lot's Wife to Gomer to Fallen Angel to KoT - 22/26 FbtN :D
you'd need besieged up
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Beseiged doesn't stop evil fbtn
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no but wouldn't the band be negated by KoT?
It would stay FBTN but would go down in numbers.with besieged up it'd be FBTN and still have the big numbers
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no but wouldn't the band be negated by KoT?
It would stay FBTN but would go down in numbers.with besieged up it'd be FBTN and still have the big numbers
CotH>KoT when it comes to who's in first.
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The battle is FTBN via CotH's ability. CotH is 10/10, and KoT is 10/12. So CotH is dieing, but only by numbers.
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I agree that CotH is losing by the numbers, but just to clarify, the battle is FBTN except banding and weapon-class enhancements. KoT's SA is prevented by CotH. In this battle , even KoT can play banding and weapons.
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+1 Forgot that CotH had an extra part to his banding.
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It depends on what your deck is.
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It depends on what your deck is.
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King of Tyrus is a good stand alone, but in a Sadducee deck I wouldn't put him in.
With all the Sadducees that there are, you should have enough characters that King of Tyrus would just be in the way.
With a Sadducee deck I'd focus on the theme, rather than throw in another brigade.
Besides without enhancements, he could be beaten by the numbers without too much trouble.
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Although not standalone, Lot's Wife is pretty much a must for all black decks. If you're looking for ways to stop CotH though, Twelve-Fingered Giant is perfect. He makes sure Cappy can't use any of his nice banding combos, and also has a nice, big defense.
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Another thing you can use in a black deck is King Amon and Manasseh.
They're the black version of King Nadab and Jeroboam I.
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Do you have Amaziah the HP and King Jeroboam the 2nd?
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...why?
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...why?
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It's Israelite.
Wouldn't it be better to keep the defense a single color?
After all, King Elah's ability isn't really useful.
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Oh. I didn't know that you were choosing the blocker.
That's a whole different story.
However, if they can play something they have almost guaranteed initiative.
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When I use choose the blocker, I prefer to use blue.
That way, I can block with my own character, and use Paying Tribute.
This allows me to win the battle without anyone dying and I can draw a card.
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well assuming they don't have any enh either or would work.
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wow, this thread has recently been about:
Blue.
White.
Silver.
Black.
Orange.
Gold.
but I see no red.
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Why do you have to ruin our conversations? ::)
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I do prefer red, but sometimes conversations just go on tangents.
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Captain of the Host + Gathering of Angels
Caleb (10/7) , Men of Judah (12/12) , Army of Simeonites (11/11), Captain of the Host (10/10)
43/40=WIN
If opponent stops Captain, play Red's battlewinners and "If used by Warrior Class" cards. :D
I love my red/gray deck. :)
Alhough...
Your attack: 43/40 with Captain negating + Opponent's The Trap of the Devil= DOAH!
Don't forget Caleb's sword or any other of wepon class enchantment.
Nebushasban is in territory. Block w/ the nergalizer and play sarah's jealousy or nebuchadnezzer's pride ;D
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I do prefer red, but sometimes conversations just go on tangents.
That's the sine of a really good conversation, or at least within its radius.
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I prefer initiative with battle winners.
I also would rather only use one color for offense.
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Also, Captain of the Host is overused.
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That's the sine of a really good conversation, or at least within its radius.
Boooooooo :P
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Captain of the Host is what people use when they don't know how to make a good deck.
(Excluding purely silver decks of course)
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I know this thread is dead, but I thought I would offer some topical advice for Red Brigade.
Well, I'm in the process of making a new deck and I want the Offense to be mostly Red Brigade, but the only problem is that I have never used the Red Brigade and I need some good strategies. I want to use both NT and OT so I can get the NT Only LS. Any suggestions?
Thanks in Advance,
Alex-cb
Alex-cb, I know that most of this thread was not too helpful, but here is my idea. If you have Walking on Water and Peter, put both of them in the deck. Peter will give you numbers... numbers that come in handy when you play Battle Cry every turn. But, enough of that, for the female hero, use Jael! Even if your opponent has Wall of Protection every few games, she has great name-on-name bonus with Jael's nail, and she is a lot of fun to use.
Also, employ the aid of Jahaziel son of Zechariah, and Kerith Ravine to band into battle all but one hero every turn.
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People should learn how to make good strategies within a single brigade offense, instead of just splashing in to make up for their deck's inadequacies.
I especially despise silver banding to other colors.
It happens way too often and shows a lack of imagination.
It doesn't matter whether you use musicians, Jacob, Entertaining angels, etc... It's just redundant.
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I personally despise theme decks. oh snap, I'm screwed.
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People should learn how to make good strategies within a single brigade offense, instead of just splashing in to make up for their deck's inadequacies.
I especially despise silver banding to other colors.
It happens way too often and shows a lack of imagination.
It doesn't matter whether you use musicians, Jacob, Entertaining angels, etc... It's just redundant.
That isn't always a sign of weakness. Sometimes it helps the stratagy. Example If I use CTB and need to have the ability to play Sound the trumpet, I may add e.t. to help me play it first cuz it helps. I agree people should learn how to make good single colors BEFORE splashing but splashing is an awesome technique.
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Even when it's just an assistant to the strategy, it has been abused.
When you see quite a few people all using Captain of the Host and or Michael + Angel's Sword as strategy "helpers", it gets ridiculous and needs to be stopped.
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Overused cards will remain overused till enough counters are out. Before then, all you can do is use underused cards to show others over used doesnt mean better.
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Some brigades go nice together under one theme (i.e. green/red warriors).
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O_o; I've never seen a deck like that.
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Overused cards will remain overused till enough counters are out. Before then, all you can do is use underused cards to show others over used doesnt mean better.
Also improving upon underused strategies by making new cards will help.
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O_o; I've never seen a deck like that.
Neither have I, but I can see a few fun combos - Dodai banding to Eleazer w/ David's Sling, Heldai banding to Benaiah for a 15/15 FbtN, you could throw in a nice little Split Altar - It could work.
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O_o; I've never seen a deck like that.
Neither have I, but I can see a few fun combos - Dodai banding to Eleazer w/ David's Sling, Heldai banding to Benaiah for a 15/15 FbtN, you could throw in a nice little Split Altar - It could work.
Heldai to Benaiah=fail. try Abishai to Heldai to Helez to Isrealite Archer to Ira. I love my t2 deck...
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Heldai to Benaiah=fail. try Abishai to Heldai to Helez to Isrealite Archer to Ira.
So...if there's a combo that's slightly stronger than another that uses twice as many cards and one extra brigade, the other is fail? :P Don't you think 15/15 is just about as high as you need to get for FbtN anyway? That could easily kill just about any lone character, especially if you have a card like Benaiah's spear to back you up just in case, as well as a wide load of red battle-winners.
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I like using Heldai with Jashobeam's spear banded to Abishai with his spear, banded to Adino with his spear.
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Heldai to Benaiah=fail. try Abishai to Heldai to Helez to Isrealite Archer to Ira.
So...if there's a combo that's slightly stronger than another that uses twice as many cards and one extra brigade, the other is fail? :P Don't you think 15/15 is just about as high as you need to get for FbtN anyway? That could easily kill just about any lone character, especially if you have a card like Benaiah's spear to back you up just in case, as well as a wide load of red battle-winners.
not in t2, 15/15 is not nearly enough. one leviathan and a mid attack would bring you to your knees
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Uh...that would make it a stalemate. :-\
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Does anyone even use Leviathan?
His ability isn't that great and I prefer ability over strength/toughness.
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Uh...that would make it a stalemate. :-\
Right, and a stalemate is a successful block.
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I know that, but it's just that he said...
one leviathan and a mid attack would bring you to your knees
I mean, stalemate isn't exactly bringing you to your knees, especially if you can overcome it by playing a single enhancement. (All you would need at that point is 2 offense to be winning.)
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I know that, but it's just that he said...
one leviathan and a mid attack would bring you to your knees
I mean, stalemate isn't exactly bringing you to your knees, especially if you can overcome it by playing a single enhancement. (All you would need at that point is 2 offense to be winning.)
2 offence is plenty when your using banding in t2. also, Leviathan will gain an experience credit, and soon, he'll be unstoppable!
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Niether to my knowledge.
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Does anyone even use Leviathan?
His ability isn't that great and I prefer ability over strength/toughness.
Leviathan's a beast! (literally) ;)
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Does anyone even use Leviathan?
His ability isn't that great and I prefer ability over strength/toughness.
Leviathan's a beast! (literally) ;)
No he isn't he's a party animal
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I prefer initiative because I like to play enhancements.
I'd rather play a battle winner, than have one played against me.
So leviathan isn't worth putting in my deck.
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+1
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Only cuz you are vegan ;) who doesn't like fried fish? ;)
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mmm fried fish!
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Sometimes it's nice to have an enormous character at hand, just in case of large FbtN (or to use large FbtN yourself ::)).