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Looks really good.  If you're truly wanting to go for Disciples "speed" then I recommend finding a way to add in Pentecost and Four-Drachma Coin.

^Agreed. Take out Sent Two by Two and Passover Hymn.

Not sure about taking out passover hymn. Helps if you run into Rain Becomes Dust and is also great in batlle. I would maybe take out Lampstand instead.

Yeah, cause who still uses TGT anymore

Golgotha was my other thought. Keep Lampstand in, for sure.

I could see High Priests's Palace coming out.

And lose all my pharisees to AoC?

passoverhymm does sound good against RBD and i can here Pol saying dont forget Blue Tassels for herods, Crown of Thorns should be a no brainer and Sabbath Breaker fits right in too as well as Torment, Pentecost, and 4D coin. Alot of help i know.

I'm interested to hear how your deck did today and what you decided on for the finished version.

I decided to keep it the same. Over all it did pretty good. I only played three games with it, and the only game I lost was against a Angel/Site lock with no defense. The first game was against my brother and the only defense he drew was Gomer (I think) and she was easily stopped. I won 5-0. The second game was against Ken. So long story short, I didn't draw enough defense to stop him until the end, but the real reason I won was because at the end his only EC in play was Self, so TGT got by him to win. I won 5-3. My Third Game was against the Angel/Site lock with no defense deck. That game didn't go as well. To start it did'nt take long for him to get through my defense, but he wasn't drawing any Lost Souls either. It ended up being down to the last turn but I forgot to put my last Lost Soul in Golgotha resulting in his winning the game by one turn. I lost 5-4. the last game I used my Teal/Red deck against my other brother and won 5-0 (Figures ).

I've been playing a deck very, very similar to this for a while now. I wouldn't take out Lampstand. I actually decided to not use Guardian and Andrew in favor of Pentecost and Four-Drachma Coin, and I've never had an instance where I was sad about that choice. I lose a soul to FA here and there, but it's not ever something I went, "Oh man, if I'd had had Guardian I would have been okay!"

even ones that have 10+ disciples?

Crown of Thorns should be in every disciples deck.

Only if Thad abuse is your only strategy. Disciples are a perfectly legitimate offense without relying solely on swarming Disciples and using Thad.

My Disciples deck went 2-1 at this past weekend's tournament, the only loss was to another Disciple deck that also didn't use Crown of Thorns (I don't think).

At OP: If your goal is to get Thad and other disciples out fast to use his protection all the time, then add Crown of Thorns. If not, I think the card slot is better served with something else.

Since this deck is for your dad and he's more likely to just play the cards as he draws them, instead of playing towards one specific overall strategy (Thad abuse) I don't see Crown of Thorns as being entirely necessary.

I think I want to lean more toward Heros and enhancements. So I was thinking about adding Grapes and/or Mayhem, Andrew, Centurion's Proclamation, and David's Triumph, but I don't know what to take out .