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56 cards:

Good Dominants (3)
Angel of the Lord (the G deck version, because of Stone Pillar at Bethel)
New Jerusalem
Son of God

Evil Dominants (4)
Burial
Christian Martyr
Destruction of Nehushtan
Falling Away

Blue Heroes (5)
Asher
Benjamin
Jacob
Levi
Zebulun

Blue Hero Enhancements (6)
Abraham's Servant to Ur
Answer to Prayer
Helmet of Brass
Jacob Buries the Foreign Gods
Obedience of Noah
Reuben's Torn Clothes

Silver Hero (1)
Angel at Shur

Silver Hero Enhancement (1)
Wickedness Removed (Silver/Green)

Gold Evil Characters (8 )
The Amalekites' Slave (Gold/Brown)
Egyptian Charioteers
Egyptian Warden
Huge Egyptian
Jannes
King Shishak
King of Tyrus
Queen Tahpenes

Gold Evil Character Enhancements (9)
Egyptian Horses
Egyptian Spear
Enslaved by Egypt
Evil Spirit
Lying Unto God (Multi-Colored)
Moses kills Egyptian
Pagan Sacrifices
Ruthless
Wonders Forgotten

Blue Covenant (1)
Covenant of Noah

Gold Curses (3)
Given Over to Egypt
Oppressed and Robbed
Unknown Nation

Artifacts (3)
Chariot of Fire
Stone Pillar at Bethel
Unholy Writ

Fortresses (2)
Pharaoh's Throne Room
Wall of Protection

Lost Soul Sites (3)
Promised Land (Multi-Colored)
Egypt
Hormah

Lost Souls (7)
3-Line
Shame
Female
Shuffler
Deck Discard
NT
Revealer

The deck looks pretty fun.  The defense looks like the present deck of the guy who took 2nd for type 1 2-player:
Nathan Voigt.  I know him; we're actually live within 10 minutes of each other.

That or it looks like most of RR's defenses.

Lol I don't use oppressed and robbed, I use spreading mildew instead.

I have both O&R and Mildew in my deck, if you didn't notice.

I did.

Is it worth having two extra cards (Angel at Shur and CotH) to support Jacob? They seem pretty out of context otherwise and if he gets discarded, you'll have a hard time justifying them, even with their decent abilities.

Both of those characters can be independent. In fact, I hardly ever use Angel at Shur with Jacob. I'll often make a battle challenge with him just to use his ability. (Tim's nats-winning deck used Angel at Shur, too.) I guess, maybe, I could replace Captain with Zebulun. I can hardly see myself using his ability often, though.

Deck Updated

Okay, I traded out CotH for Zebulun. Now, what do you think about Zimri? I think he could really be a valuable addition. Maybe I could take Abram/Abraham out to make room for him, since I hardly use him anyway. (It's just that I never want to make an initial rescue with him so that I might, possibly, use his ability another time.) Also, I don't think Numerous as the Stars is really benefiting me, since I usually only use it to take out Jacob and then play the next enhancement, and I can only do that once. Also, when I do use it, I don't really need it anyway, since I already had initiative at the time that I played it. I guess, sometimes, it might be nice to play it while using Abe's Servant to take out a character and get my numbers up.

Now I'm rather considering trying to condense this into 56 cards. If I added Zimri, maybe I could remove an evil enhancement or two, like maybe Begging to Go Back or Evil Spirit.

...Rambling again...sorry...

Deck Updated

Okay, I traded Priestly Crown for Zimri.

Also, I kind of want to fit in Wickedness Removed.

I just don't think I would ever really get a chance to use it. Yeah, I know that Zimri is a pretty obscure choice, but he'll be very useful in the future, I'm sure.

Offense is a little small but other than that it's fine

I just played the wierdest game with this deck! I had discarded almost all of my opponent's cards, including his SoG, ether through deck discarding or in battle, and had drawn the last card from my deck. The score was 1-3, with me at the losing end. So, I devised a plan: I laid down all my cards, giving me no cards in either my hand or my draw pile, and then made a rescue attempt with, guess who, Zebulun! I couldn't draw any cards, and I had no cards in my hand, so I was now ignoring all evil characters. Since my opponent hardly had any cards himself, there wasn't really anything he could do. Long story short, I won, 5-3.

Yeah, people have been making herolites based on him for a while now.