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This is a deck I tweaked the first couple weeks of RoJ on lackey and the one I plan on continuing to use as my main deck once I get the cards together in real life. It started as the playtest deck from LoR so thanks to Justin for the base of the deck.

Dominants:
Christian Martyr
Falling Away
Mayhem
Angel of the Lord
SoG
TSC
Three Woes

Souls:
Darkness
Humble
Imitate
Lawless
Open Hand
Crowds
Punisher
Hopper

Heroes:
Angel from the Altar
Angel of Revelation
Angels of Wrath
Gabriel
Michael, the Archangel
Servant Angel
The Angel Under the Oak
The Strong Angel (RoJ)

Good Enhancements:
Angelic Guidance
Angelic News
Fifth Seal
Everlasting Beings
Protection of Angels

DAEs:
Third Bowl of Wrath
Fifth Bowl of Wrath
Seventh Bowl of Wrath
War in Heaven

Evil Enhancements:
Scattered

Evil Characters:
Fire Foxes
Uzzah
Foreign Spearman
Foreign Wives
King of Tyrus
Red Dragon
The Deceiver
War
Famine
Conquer

Covenants:
You Will Remain
I am Creator
Covenant of Gabe

Forts/Sites:
The Gates of Hell
The Ends of the Earth
Patmos
Nazareth

Deck Size: 50

Reserve:
Striking Herod
Sword of the Spirit
Fourth Bowl of Wrath
Sixth Bowl of Wrath
Wrath of Satan
Every Mans Sword
2k Horses
Outsiders (Black/Gold)
Goliath
Shrine to Artemis

This is pretty much the only deck I have played in Redemption where it is not uncommon to draw and play every single card in the entire deck and often I only have 2-3 cards left in Reserve as well. I am very open to feedback on the deck but I'll defend almost every card in the deck pretty strongly since they all serve a specific purpose. The deck size being 50 (48 if you count Hopper and News as filler, which is why they are in the deck) is extremely important as it is what makes the deck consistent and I'm not willing to increase the size at all.

I don't get I am Creator in this, it seems pretty worthless if drawn anytime after the first turn. But I guess it works for Uzzah.

Sneaky inclusion of Naz, but I'd still watch out for Joshua. He's far from gone.

Foreign Spearman is also sneaky with the bowls.

Is the Outsiders in Reserve the one that can grab idols? I'm assuming so since Shrine is in Reserve.

Using Mayhem and having 4 crimson characters, I'd be very tempted to add Hypocrisy (in Reserve if not the main deck).

Still don't understand running angels of wrath without grapes.

It's a nice combo but dom slots are tighter than ever with woes existing and nazareth will be up a decent amount of the time preventing me from getting it that way.

Curious your reasoning for main-decking 3rd Bowl and putting 4th Bowl in Reserve? In my experience, 4th Bowl is much stronger (especially since you aren't using Martyrs).

I discovered early on that while it would at first appear optimal to put the best bowls in deck and the less good ones in reserve, it's actually better to put the offensive ones in reserve and the defensive ones in deck. 4th bowl is going to be played offensively 99% of the time and is almost always the first thing I grab with wrath angel since he also has the initiative required to play it. Whether it is in deck or reserve it is going to end up in my hand because of wrath angel most of the time. 3rd bowl is in the main deck because it is a standalone evil battle winner in crimson, which can be played in very common scenario of blocking with conquer+war and having conquer negated.

Gabe's Nationals 2016 winner card is Covenant of Prayer

Question, why arent you running Dragon's Wrath? If War bands to RD that's an auto battle winner.

Well, I tried this deck out...I think I am still not used to that many multiple brigades (defense) in one deck.  Sure it is mainly mono angel, but I struggled with keeping the defense going even though I know it should move pretty easily.   I will have to come back to this concept once I get some other types down.