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Alright, I have a Type I with 105 cards in it. I think it's good. I have a total my totals are that 29 of 75 "fighters" i guess you'd call it are either evil or heroes, with the remaining 46 being enhancements. All my evil characters are pink and black brigade and all my heroes are silver and yellow brigade, with some multicolored enhancements thrown in. Is this a good balance? Let me know. Thanks! 

***Updated***
Cards in deck: 54

Lost Souls: 7
   Lost Soul (Place Soul Beneath)
   Lost Soul (Protected Women and SoG)
   Lost Soul
   Lost Soul
   Lost Soul
   Lost Soul
   Lost Souls (2-line)

Lamb Dominants: 3
   Angel of the Lord
   New Jerusalem
   Son of God

Grim Reaper Dominants: 2
   Burial
   Christian Martyr

Fortresses: 1
   Solomon's Temple

Sites: 3
   Samaria
   Tree of Knowledge
   Garden of Eden

Artifacts: 2
   Altar of Ahaz
   Temple Veil

Multi-color Hero Enhancements: 4
   Shoes of Peace
   Pillar of a Cloud
   Pillar of Fire
   Fountains of Living Water

Bi-Colored Hero Enhancements: 1
   Godspeed (Gold/Silver)

Silver Heroes: 4
    Swift
    Reassuring Angel
    Angel of Revelation
    Liberating Angel

Silver Hero Enhancements: 4
    Sword of the Fighter
    Angelic News
    War in Heaven
    The Sixth Seal

Gold Heroes: 3
    Luke
    Obed-Edom the Gittite
    Apollos

Gold Hero Enhancements: 3
    Fear of the Lord
    Faith as Children
    Love of Jesus

Pink Evil Characters: 4
    King Merodachbaladan
    Red Dragon
    Alexander the Coopersmith
    Whore of Babylon

Pink Evil Enhancements: 5
    Selfish Ambition
    Going to their Deaths
    Peter's Lie
    Stormy Seas
    Coliseum Lions

Black Evil Characters: 4
     Goliath
     Strong Demon
     High Priest Caiaphas
     Herod the Great

Black Evil Enhancements: 4
     Three Crosses
     Ferocious Attack
     Knocked to the Ground
     Ancient Evil

Ignore Caleb's negativity and cookie-cutter deck. You can make your deck however you like, especially as a new player. Could you break down the numbers of characters and enhancements a little more (like by brigade)? Any specifics about names would be helpful.

We'll get you where you need to be in no time. 

what about holders heroes (or whatever that site is) everyone new follows that

As long as they know where to look....

Perhaps you could provide a link. 

Some advice:

Try not to make your deck bigger than maybe 70 cards at first.

Your enhancements ratio is currently around 2 enhancements per character. You want to bring that down a little. Most "good" decks tend to have an almost equal number of characters and enhancements.

Good luck! Oh and try this for some help

www.holderheroes.com

yes, but it really stinks when you have a lot of enhancements with no characters to play them on.

I also agree that smaller decks are good.  I would recommend 56, but 63 works ok too.  The reason smaller decks work best is because you draw your best cards faster.  Especially as a newer player, you don't have a huge collection of great cards.  Why not draw them 90% of the time instead of 50% of the time and instead drawing not so great cards. 

Slightly off topic, but how long has it been since a deck >56 won Nats?

Also, I'm not sure what you mean by pink.  There isn't a pink brigade (yet).  Also, the double lost soul counts only as 1 lost soul when you build your deck.

Have fun!
Cameron

crimson is what he means

Sounds good. I tried downloading the simulator before and it said it had an error and had to close. I'll try fixing my deck now.

(Oh, and thanks for letting me know pink is crimson. lol. I always wondered why cards said "crimson" brigade. lol) 

I'll check it out then. I just cut my deck down about 25 cards. lol. Uff, I still need more taken out. lol

Alright, I have it down to 50 cards. I'll post them now.

I rate it illegal. You can only have 56 cards with 7 ls.

Honestly though, it seems you are pretty new so I am going to let you in a secret. Numbers usually don't win battles, but special abilities always do. Unless you have some awesome scheme I am not seeing.

I rate it illegal. You can only have 56 cards with 7 ls.

Honestly though, it seems you are pretty new so I am going to let you in a secret. Numbers usually don't win battles, but special abilities always do. Unless you have some awesome scheme I am not seeing.

Oh, oops, sorry didn't see that. Well, how would that not work? It could win any battle.

Oh, I see. Good point. So should there be a mix of really strong and sorta weak.

wow. that's very helpful! Thanks!

Quote from: Prof Underwood on January 19, 2009, 05:34:53 PM

Stage 1 - "the bigger the better" Players quickly learn that the bigger guy wins the battle so they make decks with as many big guys as they can and as many big enhancements that they can.  (example: Angel decks)

Stage 2 - "the pen is mightier than the sword" Players learn that their huge 10/10 character can be instantly killed by a 1/1 character with an enhancement that says to "discard" him.  So they make either add a bunch of "negating" enhancements in their decks to stop those from killing their big guys, or they make decks with all little guys so that they can play the "discarding" cards first.  (example: FBN decks)

Stage 3 - "you can't touch this" Players learn that there are some cards and characters that make those "discard" type abilities so that they can't be negated.  So they make decks with little characters and those so that they can't be stopped.  (example: Splash decks)

Stage 4 - "homey don't play dat" Players learn that if they can ignore someone before the battle begins or be protected, that the other player has to just sit and watch them take lost souls.  (example: The Garden Tomb and Z-temple decks)

Stage 5 - "the best of all possible worlds" Players learn to assimilate parts of each of these into a cohesive whole which is greater than the sum of its parts.  At this point they are ready to win at all levels and inspire all those who play them.  (example: Gabe decks)

And at some point is where the player learns that 150 card decks with no duplicates is a bad idea
(usually between stage 1 and 2 or during stage 2) 

I'm not that bad. Trust me. lol 

haha. i'm just kidding 

Stage 1 - "the bigger the better" Players quickly learn that the bigger guy wins the battle so they make decks with as many big guys as they can and as many big enhancements that they can.  (example: Angel decks)

Stage 2 - "the pen is mightier than the sword" Players learn that their huge 10/10 character can be instantly killed by a 1/1 character with an enhancement that says to "discard" him.  So they make either add a bunch of "negating" enhancements in their decks to stop those from killing their big guys, or they make decks with all little guys so that they can play the "discarding" cards first.  (example: FBN decks)

Stage 3 - "you can't touch this" Players learn that there are some cards and characters that make those "discard" type abilities so that they can't be negated.  So they make decks with little characters and those so that they can't be stopped.  (example: Splash decks)

Stage 4 - "homey don't play dat" Players learn that if they can ignore someone before the battle begins or be protected, that the other player has to just sit and watch them take lost souls.  (example: The Garden Tomb and Z-temple decks)

Stage 5 - "the best of all possible worlds" Players learn to assimilate parts of each of these into a cohesive whole which is greater than the sum of its parts.  At this point they are ready to win at all levels and inspire all those who play them.  (example: Gabe decks)

Oh, come on.  Angel Decks are fun.  "The Name of The Lord" - it's a really fun card

ok don't necroe post because it is rude and makes people mad.

Actually in this case, I didn't mind the necropost at all.  I had forgotten about that post that he quoted (even though I wrote it), and there are a lot of new players on the board since then who might appreciate reading through it.

posting on a super old topic.

I live the stage quote. Tis oh so true. Should be stickied