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This might belong under deck building, but I think it works here...

You're a new Redemption player, having just purchased both starter sets that are currently available (E/F & G/H). As you prepare to leave after learning the game with your local playgroup, one of the veteran players hands you a box. "here, I don't need these," he says. "Take them."

When you get home, you open the box to find it full of cards. As you sort through them, you find that there are no duplicate cards in the box. Checking the Three Lions Gaming site, you find that none of these cards are valuable, but you have one copy of every card that lists for 25 cents!

Here's the challenge: Using 8/25/11 TLG prices, create a deck that uses only cards from the E/F/G/H starters and single copies of cards that list for 25 cents. The deck must adhere to standard T1 deck building rules (no sticking all four SoGs in the deck!). The goal is to make a competitive deck within those parameters.

If enough players participate, I'll take a vote here on the best deck and see what I can find as a prize. (It won't be huge, but I have some promos and U/Rs, as well as a selection of booster packs and maybe even a few tins lying around.)

I'll give this a shot at the originally stated rules, finding if cards are 25 cents or less is not that hard with the price list PDF you can get on TLG site. It's just sorting through all those cards to find the ones you actually want to use. I'm assuming the gift tin is not included so no NJ?

I'd thought of doing something like this a while ago, and I still think its a really fun idea.  Although, I'd rather the deciding of who made the best deck be done by playing them against each other, not by voting.

new unofficial ROOT format? I like but it would have to have some pretty strict deck checking

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I'll give this a shot at the originally stated rules, finding if cards are 25 cents or less is not that hard with the price list PDF you can get on TLG site.

The thing is your card pool is waaaay limited (haha funny pun) I mean for all practical purposes half the cards in the g/h starter are worth more then 25 cents

Right but the price limit doesn't apply to the starter deck cards because he's assuming you bought all 4 starters.

Double Gold/Green cheap deck (56 cards)

LS: 7
Female-only
Withdraw
Shuffler (wa)
Site-Remover
Hand Discard
Site Doubler (wa)
Assassin

Doms: 4
SoG
AotL
CM
Burial

Arts: 2
Priestly Crown
Elijah's Mantle

Covs: 3
Cov w/ Moses
I am Redemption
I am Salvation

Sites: 2
Egypt (H)
Egypt (wo)

White Heroes: 1
King Amazing

Blue Heroes: 1
Tribal Elder

Green Heroes: 3
Rachel
Nehemiah
Midwives (G)

Gold Heroes: 4
Women o' Israel
Tola
Eve
Moses

Blue enh: 1
Lamenting for Jepthah's Daughter

Green enh: 3
Provisions
Love for Rachel
Blessings for Obedience

Good Gold enh: 4
Furnace o' God's Wrath
Fishers o' Men
Plague o' Hail
Battle Prayer (wa)

Gold ECs: 5
King Elah
King Basha
Potiphar's Wife
Egyptian Charioteers
King So

PG ECs: 5
Esau the Hunter
Pashur the Priest
Controlling Demon
Frog Demons (wa)
King Sennacherib

Multi EE: 1
Lying Unto God

Evil Gold enh: 4
Lies
Enslaved by Egypt
Moses Kills Egyptian
Wonders Forgotten

PG EE: 6
Confusion
Stocks
Slave Trade
Achan's Sin
Misuse o' Talents
Forgotten History

Point proven the above deck has multiple cards that are worth more then 25 cents but less then a dollar. Shuffler, Confusion, Cov with Moses, Stocks ect all of which people would part with for $1 or less. Also half of which arent even commons

Not going to check the rest, but i literally just looked up the price earlier and the Shuffler is listed as $0.25 on TLG's master price list.

Point proven the above deck has multiple cards that are worth more then 25 cents but less then a dollar. Shuffler, Confusion, Cov with Moses, Stocks ect all of which people would part with for $1 or less. Also half of which arent even commons

All of the cards in the deck are either .25 cents or starter deck cards. I guess the title of "common deck" is misleading seeing as how there are many uncommon and rare cards mixed in as well. It shall be renamed.

Quote from: Drrek on September 26, 2011, 04:45:30 AM

I'd thought of doing something like this a while ago, and I still think its a really fun idea.  Although, I'd rather the deciding of who made the best deck be done by playing them against each other, not by voting.

I would, too, but that would require a number of players willing to do all the work. I don;t have enough time or players here to do it, unless it's a very small set of decks.

I know not everyone can use the RTS, but people could play online with their cheap decks.  It could even be done as a tournament online to find the best cheap deck.

If I get some free time this weekend, I'll build a deck.