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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Deck Building & Design => Type 1 Deck Advice => Topic started by: BubbleBoy on May 03, 2009, 01:07:54 PM
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56 cards...
Offense
Elishama
Jehoram
Joshua
Joiada
Filling ZT
Jehoiada's Strength
Trumpet Blast
Zeal for the Lord
King David
King Jehoshaphat
Mephibosheth
AoCP
Peace Treaty
Reach of Desperation
Unified Kingdom
Melchizidek
Pentecost
Defense
The Amalekites' Slave
Complainers
Haman
King Jeroboam I
King Nadab
King Zedekiah
Unclean Spirit
Uzzah
Dungeon of Malchiah
Gibeonite Trickery
Haman's Plot
Korah's Rebellion
Stiff-Necked
Artifacts/Curses
Book of the Law
Chariot of Fire
Holy of Holies
Lampstand of the Sanctuary
The Silver Trumpets
Confusion of Mind
Unknown Nation
Fortresses/Sites
Wall of Protection
Zerubbabel's Temple
Dragon Raid
Promised Land
Hormah
Dominants
AotL
NJ
SoG
Burial
CM
DoN
FA
Lost Souls
Site Doubler
2-Line
Female
Shuffler
Exchanger
NT
Revealer
I thought this offense idea would be fun to try. My main strategy is basically to use Elishama and Jehoram to reuse stuff from the discard pile: Jehoiada's Strength on Joshua, Peace Treaty on Jehoshaphat, Unified Kingdom on David, etc. Any advice on improvements would be appreciated. :)
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the offense looks good but I think you need Scapegoat in there
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Does he need Scapegoat? It's not reusable, and he has Reach, Zeal, and Jehoiada's Strength for interrupts. J's Strength is especially cool in this offense, since just by banding there's a good shot at a battle winner being included, as if it weren't awesome enough. I would rather Royal Parade if he wanted another interrupt, but it's probably not necessary in his offense.
I've tried this sort of thing with Teal and Red right after Priests came out, because that gives me three placers (with Jahaziel), and Red has awesome EC-killers (Freedom!, Jael's Nail, Power of the Cross, etc.) that are still effective pre-block. I think it should work just fine with Purple too, though, especially with Jehoshaphat's banding to two placers.
I suggest adding Holy of Holies (KoT and friends are a huge pain when trying to place stuff) and The Silver Trumpets (free banding is excellent here, as noted with J's Strength above). You can do without Moses/Cov of Moses, it doesn't feel like it belongs.
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Deck Updated
;D
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:bump:
I would really like to get this deck in working order, 'cause I think I want to use this as my main deck.
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On the contrary, I think a Moses is absolutely necessary for end game purposes. You have two ways to band in all your OT humans... and both can't be negated, so adding Moses makes it a huge FBN battle. You definitely don't need Cov w/ Moses unless you are worried about HHI and plan to use it that way...
Do you really need Wall in this deck??? What is your opponent going to band to??? There is little to no way to band to teal, and your purple heroes are almost useless as far as banding strategy... idk, that's up to you.
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Little to no way? Tribal Elder says otherwise. Wall protects your defense as well, though, and with one-hit-wonders like Uzzah that may end up having to be put in your territory rather than discarding an enhancement, or killer abilities such as Haman that will most likely survive one or more battles, keeping you're opponent's grabby hands off them can be a major plus.
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Yeah, I don't know how well this deck would survive without Wall.
And about Moses, I really do want to put him in here; what could I take out for that? ZTemple is currently only protecting two heroes, but it has other uses as well, so...:dunno:
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I'm going to continue to argue against the Wall... Tribal Elder is one card and is not a staple in speed or blue decks anymore. The only decks you ever see it in is BBN that's objective is to band to captain. As far as the defensive side, brown does not have a protection fortress, therefore you will not be laying down your EC's as generously unless you face a TGT deck (which usually plays with a multicolored defense...). With so many defenses being based on cultures, there is very little banding available to other brigades. I'm not arguing that Wall is useless, there will be some games you play where it might be nice to have it, but with no way to get it out quickly, the chances that it will be useful are little.
Where as a card like Moses, will be used in over 50% of your games, guaranteed.
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You may consider the Throne of David as well... I know this is a placement deck, but its always nice to have a back-up strat.