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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Deck Building & Design => Type 1 Deck Advice => Topic started by: Professoralstad on October 04, 2010, 01:06:36 PM
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Based on a few requests, and the fact that I need to change a few things anyway, I decided to post my Watchful Servant deck here. The premise is simple: Shrink my opponent's deck fast enough to let Watchful Servant walk in at the end for some freebies (ideally, 3-4). It took second at a local on Saturday (1 LS differential away from first), and has also performed very well in ROOT this past month, beating all but one opponent. It's only loss in the tourney was to Nathan "The Hobbit" Voigt, who drew his deck just well enough to get past me.
The biggest problem was exposed when Martin "T3h UNF0RG1VABL3" Miller whomped on it twice in a row after the tournament with a speedy FBTN banding deck (I would have thought it would fare better vs. that offense, since Herods are the premier CBP defense). But when it works, and with a little bit of luck, the destructive power is hard to get by. A few of my tournament games, I discarded ~15 cards off of my opponent's deck.
Cards in deck: 70
Lost Souls: 9
Lost Soul (anti-ignore)
Lost Soul (deck discard)
Lost Soul (FBTN)
Lost Soul (Female Only)
Lost Soul (revealer)
Lost Soul (shuffler)
Lost Soul (site guard)
Lost Soul (Thorns)
Lost Soul (Wanderer)
Lamb Dominants: 4
Angel of the Lord
Grapes of Wrath
New Jerusalem
Son of God
Grim Reaper Dominants: 4
Burial
Christian Martyr
Destruction of Nehushtan
Falling Away
Fortresses: 6
Herod's Temple
High Places
Pharaoh's Throne Room
Pithom
Storehouse
Wall of Protection
Multi-Color Sites: 1
The Ends of the Earth
White Sites: 1
Herod's Dungeon
Gold Sites: 1
Chorazin
Artifacts: 5
Chariot of Fire
Lampstand of the Sanctuary
Magic Charms
The Bronze Laver
Unholy Writ
White Covenant Cards: 2
Given Over to Egypt (Gold)
Unknown Nation (Yellow)
Gold Covenant Cards: 1
I am Redemption
Multi-Color Heroes: 1
Ahimaaz (Teal)
Gold Heroes: 1
Watchful Servant
Purple Heroes: 1
Ethiopian Treasurer
Multi-Color Hero Enhancements: 3
Benedictus (Teal/White)
Philosophy
Resurrection
Purple Hero Enhancements: 1
Authority of Christ
Gold Evil Characters: 14
Archelaus
Egyptian Archer
Egyptian Charioteers
Egyptian Horsemen
Egyptian Warden
Herod Agrippa II
Herod Philip II
Herod the Great
Huge Egyptian
Jannes
King of Tyrus
Potiphar's Wife
Queen Tahpenes
Salome
Multi-Color Evil Enhancements: 1
Herod's Treachery
Gold Evil Enhancements: 14
Beheaded
Egyptian Horses
Egyptian Spear
Escape to Egypt
Failed Objective
Imprisoned
Mask of Fear
Moses kills Egyptian
Outnumbered
Pagan Sacrifices
Rash Oath
Ruthless
Spreading Mildew
Wonders Forgotten
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Hey Prof, RR hacked your account.
An Ethan would help. Golgotha isn't very nice.
Why Resurrection? Isn't CoF enough?
I like this deck a lot.
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So if your opponent has DD and Golgotha you just lose?
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So if your opponent has DD and Golgotha you just lose?
And CP...probably. But they also have to have Lampstand/some other Artifact or Nazareth, else Captured Ark/DoN will prevail. If my opponent can figure out my backup plan, I suppose they could set up that combo, but I guess I don't foresee it happening too often in T1.
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where is samaritan water jar? also, is knowing the size of your opponents deck common knowledge? what do you do, pick it up and count it out?
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where is samaritan water jar? also, is knowing the size of your opponents deck common knowledge? what do you do, pick it up and count it out?
Hmm...I guess I never thought of that since I would need to add a Samaritan to make it effective...and I'm not sure how much it would help, since most decks with sizable defenses have at least a few characters with */3 or fewer. But I suppose I could try it.
As far as knowing the size of my opponent's deck, I never really usually attack until they have decked out (or maybe 1-3 cards left depending on my opponent's defense). But the size of a deck almost never matters for cards if X>12, so if it appears to be close, I would assume you could count/ask your opponent to count. I guess I'm not entirely sure though.
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figured swj would be a good splash for the deck while still potentially helping speeding up your rescues. at the very worse, its a top3, which still means you get to rescue a turn earlier with watchful. good samaritan/well woman (or thankful leper, it has great synergy with your deck)/kindness could also be a great splash while also providing another out just in case your servant falls through.
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I can't figure out how you stop Golgotha multiple times with this deck. I see one use for Benedictus and that's it. What am I missing?
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Best counter to these types of decks...
Run a 105 carder. ;D
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I can't figure out how you stop Golgotha multiple times with this deck. I see one use for Benedictus and that's it. What am I missing?
Benedictus + ET + AoCP clears their territory, with Spreading Mildew used on the off chance they are using Pharisses/Sadducees. Any stragglers in their hand can be dealt with using AotL/Grapes. I'm thinking of other ways that Golgotha can be skirted as well, but no one I played at the tourney on Saturday ended up using it.
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I like this deck a lot. I always wondered why you use Philosophy though.
Daniel
;D
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KoT and ET.
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and ht food.
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and ht food.
Precisely. Philosophy will save any NT character in the game with Herod's Temple, and it is recurrable via ET.
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Alrighty, that makes sense. So it's multi purpose. I didn't see the big advantages of just a couple of numbers, but with HT it makes a lot of sense.
Daniel
:thumbup:
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Needs a little Mustard...not a lot, just a little Seed... ::)
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Faith as a Mustard Seed was in there...but it was proven to be pretty useless, as it only negates and discards one Site (and is thus useless vs. CP+Golgotha) and few people will occupy their Golgotha unless they are using a Site deck, primarily because of FaaMS.