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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Deck Building & Design => Type 1 Deck Advice => Topic started by: Alex_Olijar on January 14, 2010, 04:51:59 PM
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There's a tournament comming up in Pittsburgh next weekend, and I currently do not have a deck built. I decided to rectify this by returning to the past for encouragement. Welcome to a FBTN/CtB old school, multi-brigade deck. I have no reason to believe it will not work. Do you?
Cards in deck: 56
Lost Souls: 8
Lost Soul (Color Guard)
Lost Soul (female only)
Lost Soul (hopper)
Lost Soul (N.T. only)
Lost Soul (shuffler)
Lost Soul (site doubler)
Lost Soul (Wanderer)
Lost Souls (2-line)
Lamb Dominants: 4
Angel of the Lord
Harvest Time
New Jerusalem
Son of God
Grim Reaper Dominants: 3
Burial
Christian Martyr
Destruction of Nehushtan
Fortresses: 1
Wall of Protection
Multi-Color Sites: 1
Promised Land
Purple Sites: 2
Pergamum
Prison
Artifacts: 1
Unholy Writ
White Covenant Cards: 2
Unknown Nation (Gold)
Captured Ark (Crimson)
Silver Heroes: 3
Captain of the Host
Cherubim
The Strong Angel
Green Heroes: 2
Benaiah
Habakkuk
Blue Heroes: 3
Claudia
Ira
Jacob
Purple Heroes: 2
Elijah
Ethiopian Treasurer
Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 2
Philosophy
Spiritual Warfare
Green Hero Enhancements: 1
Provisions
Blue Hero Enhancements: 2
Abraham's Servant to Ur
Obedience of Noah
Purple Hero Enhancements: 2
Authority of Christ
Reach of Desperation
Crimson Evil Characters: 4
King Shallum
King Zimri
Red Dragon
Sapphira
Gold Evil Characters: 3
Egyptian Warden
King Elah
King of Tyrus
Gray Evil Characters: 3
Emperor Nero
Job's Wife
King Pekahiah
Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 2
Lying Unto God
Torment
Crimson Evil Enhancements: 2
Large Tree
Midianite Attack
Gold Evil Enhancements: 2
Failed Objective
Wonders Forgotten
Gray Evil Enhancements: 1
Balaam's Disobedience
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I think a deck like this would do just fine, I would look the following changes to make the CtB easier.
Jeremiah or Habbakuk in for Miriam. Getting around all the major CtB counters is awesome.
Darius Decree out for Guardian or Falling Away. Unless there's really all that much pre-block stuff going on in MD, Then cut one of your two purple sites.
Just a few ideas I think will make it a teeny bit better, but it looks very solid right now.
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I like it...
I know it would probably beat 2 out of 3 of my current decks...
Anyways... have you talked to the guy from GCC yet??? It'd be really nice to get down there and see all you folks.
Matt
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@RDT: Since when is Pittsburgh in MD? :D. Jeremiah or Habbakuk seems solid. I wasn't sure which other green character to use. They seem like better options. As for DD, yes, that's mostly a meta tech. One guy plays a white offense and another plays a speed type offense, so I wanted to make it harder for them to own up my defense.
@Matt Sending Trevor a message now. Hopefully he is comming down. It'd be great to see you too, plus we can always use more players :)
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Doh, For some reason I confused you and Korunks ;) Ignore me I don't even know how to play this game ;) I just throw cards around randomly and if something cool hapens, then great!
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I don't see King Amaziah on your decklist. Considering what else you have in your deck he seems like a must have.
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That's a good point Gabe, but I'm not sure it would be adventageous to add another color with all the anti-more than 3 colors that goes around nowadays. Also, I'd have to drop something :). What do you think would be the best choice to drop if I wanted to add in Amaziah?
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I played the above deck at the tournament yesterday. It has been modified since the original posting. The deck went 3-0, winnig by scores of 5-1, 5-3, and 5-4. The 5-4 game was especially satisfying, as the defense decimated a Garden Tomb deck. Other fun including achieving a 15/17 King of Tyrus via Large Tree in one game, and winning one block by using Zimri + Midianite Attack for FBTN, and then placing Large Tree on Zimri and winning another block with Zimri's ability.
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Ah the good old days.
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Mind posting what the final deck looked like? I'm kinda curious ;)
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You can see it up there. I added in Unknown Nation and Unholy Writ for Otho and Darius' Decree. Writ helped boost my stalling a little, and Unknown Nation helped with the FBTN theme on defense. I took Otho out when I realized Philosophy was not NT when it is evil, and when I realized I don't actually own a Decree, I put in Writ to help against play first pwnage or TGT, which I foresaw as the major issues. As it turned out, my FBTN character really took down the TGT when I had a slow offensive draw. By the time I had rescued a soul, I had discarded his chariots of fire and 6 heroes, so I didn't have much to worry about. I set my CtB against his Philistine defense, and 4 RAs later (There was a short pit stop at AoCp pre-block to kill 7 defenders), I won 5-4.
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So how do you make it better against an A-bom deck??? ;)
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wait you can play large tree on kot? I must be missing something...xp
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I don't ever remember seeing the final ruling, but I believe King of Tyrus is a King and therefore is qualified for Large Tree.
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he is a king but not royalty. So you can use large tree on a crimson and then use the effect on KOT?
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If that was the ruling, then yes to your question.
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I need to make some changes to my deck...brb...*runs off to add large tree to deck...*
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I don't ever remember seeing the final ruling, but I believe King of Tyrus is a King and therefore is qualified for Large Tree.
The final ruling is found on this thread. So yes, Large Tree can be placed on KoT.
http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=18045.msg283914#msg283914 (http://www.cactusgamedesign.com/message_boards/index.php?topic=18045.msg283914#msg283914) is the final ruling.
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That is correct. It was satisfying to finally achieve that combo.
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Wait, Pittsburgh had a tournament? When was the last time THAT happened?
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We've had 1 a month since September I believe.
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Nice, glad that things are happening there.
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Yeah, it's too bad you are not around for them. We have anywhere between 6-12 players. A ocuple guys from Ohio even came over once. I missed that tournament so I am not sure whom exactly.