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I am not sure but Martin runs battle by the numbers still.

The best bet is to play fight by the numbers banding if you cannot procure any new cards. You can remain somewhat competitive but the odds of being the champion are low, but at this point the fun and fellowship is worth it even if you aren't going to be very competitive.

Josiah's deck had exactly one card from Early Church and no cards from Persecuted Church, and he finished second last year.

Do you have the 2011 FooF/RoA cards?  If you do, another option would be to go Judges/Assyrians-Magicians and include some evil fortress killers like ASA/Shipwreck to snipe potential Coliseums.  Honestly, Judges/Pale Green is probably still a top deck, even with the printing of Coliseum, because:

1. Most players don't play new counters when they are printed
2. Your opponent has to draw Coliseum before you've used Sam's Edict, Sword Against Sword, Ehud's Dagger, etc.  This is a reason T1 players would be hesitant to play it
3. You can run CWD and it barely affects your deck at all
4. You can always use Angel With Secret Name to get your CBN battlewinners (and they can be played on Jair, no less)
5. ASA can be recurred with Mist

Thanks guys for the many thoughts.

I do have almost everything pre-The early Church.

I currently have four complete decks. I have a 1) Judges/Assyrian/Magicians deck, 2) a prophets/angels deck, 3) an experimental fun deck, and 4) a fun Abom site deck.

Should I add a couple things to my judges/Assyrian deck. Like maybe the suggested mist or just throw in Shipwreck?

Run a similar copy of the above posted decks.

Update a prophets/angels deck?

Nimrod, the Might is probably worth adding to an Assyrian defense.

It's really amazing how good judges/magicians/assyrians still are to this day. Personally placing 1st and knowing others to place 1st in tournaments with the archetype.

That being said though the new set offers the very most to nearly every kind of deck you could build. There is really no limit on speed and the chances of a completely new kind of deck being able to win nationals. This is where the best players will know the options as well as the costs and may be forced to choose the most viable options "souly" related to the objective, rescuing souls.

Here are some deck types I could see being exceptional with only a few new cards from the new set:

Clay with some Faith based enhancements (probably less than 6$ tlg)
Ot red with judges or royalty splashed (again maybe 5-10$ tlg)
Priests with a judges splash (new samuel, Aaron's staff, dutiful priest, gifts and offerings 6$ tlg)
Judges magicians Assyrians (with Nimrod, Joshua, Faith of Gideon, Faith of Samson maybe 15$ tlg)
A philistine def with Acish 1$
Egyptians with their new amazing cards might run 10$ or less than 50$ with Broken Covenant

All this said I'm just tossing out how for very inexpensive from www.threelionsgaming.com you can pick up new cards which can make a huge difference in decks with cards you most likely already own. All of these have national winning potentials in their own ways including more due to the diversity of this great set! :-)