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Redemption® Collectible Trading Card Game HQ => Deck Building & Design => Type 2 Deck Advice => Topic started by: Mr.Hiatus on June 23, 2019, 01:15:41 PM
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With the last few sets really adding in a lot of dual alignment cards I was wondering how many people actually make their decks centered around the dual alignment cards and what offenses and defenses are the best? I think the most obvious answer is brown white, but white gray also has a strong case. Gold/black has some options, red black has a couple, blue/pale green, blue/crimson, I can't think of anymore off the top of my head, but you get the point. I really like blue/pale green and it seems that blue/crimson is getting some love too. I know there are prophet abilities that are CBN if certain EC's are in battle, but I mean more towards being able to use your good and evil enhancements, or characters, together. Characters made me think of Pale/green white and a few others, purple/brown, Solomon's Temple abilities, so what do you think is the strongest "dual" deck and how so?
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I've been having modest success with green/pale green ;D
I think that in general you don't really want to build around these cards, at least not as "oh I'm running this DAC so I need to run both sides." I think it's okay to allow them to inform deckbuilding (I.E. a Zeke deck pairs very well with Babs), but you should never feel obligated to run a particular offense/defense just because your other has a good DAC. 90% of the time, you'll know which alignment you want to play your DAC as (especially with the newer ones that do vastly different things on either side). Flexibility is great, but there's always an opportunity cost.
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I think the flexibility happens more with the dual alignment enhancements, and Bobbert is right that most of the time you will know what side you want to play the characters as.
In regard to the question, I don’t know that I have seen anyone REALLY try to capitalize off of the dual alignment cards out there. I was just helping my kids work on decks and saw a lot of potential for silver/orange.
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Ik that job for sure is a deck that can be built around these cars with the exchanging of these card can be counted as good or evil so with job and one of his friends they both exchange quite nicely
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Purple/Brown has some very nice synergy -- King Saul, Lost Anointing, King Saul's Spear, Defenestrated, David's Census, Jehu's Sword and 6th Bowl of Wrath. Obviously not the most powerful enhancements, but if you use that as a core then add strong battle winners on either side (Valley of Salt/Counsel of Abigail & Scattered/Haman's Plot for example) then there's definitely potential there.
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RoJ gave us LOTS of DACs with a silver side. I’ve seen them run very effectively with a splash/orange defense combined with TEotE to grab a DAC every battle.
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Green/Crimson-Pale Green needs its own category. There are so many Crimson/Pale Green ECs, most of which are either Babylonians and/or Assyrians. And Ezekiel/Isaiah are unique and powerful heroes that work so well with those defenses.
The flexibility to play enhancements as either good or evil is sooo huge. It mitigates "flood" (which in Redemption is getting all offense or all defense in your initial D8).
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I agree with you Josh. I think the dual enhancements/characters really up open not just the initial draw but the ratios to your deck in general which are increased in your favor. Having 2-3 additional cards in your hand to use on both offense and defense is a massive advantage if your opponent is not utilizing this. I asked if people made their deck around this I don’t mean this is the focal point, but more so making their deck around 2 brigades in both good and evil that work synonymously. After you choose your colors and dual cards you branch off, like what Justin said.