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I think that this is a kinda interesting deck and would like some advice about it and maybe make it smaller!


Cards 154

Lost souls 21
deck discard X 3
hand discard X 3
3 liner X 2
exchanger X 2
NT only X 2
woman’s X 2
site remover X 2
revealer X 2
Site Doubler X 3


Dominants 10
SoG
NJ
Angle
Grapes
GoYS
CM
Burial
FA
Mayhem
DoN

Heroes 8
Generous widow X 2
Martha
Hur
Watchful servant X 3
Phinehas

Enhancements (good) 9
Feast of Trumpets
Meeting the Messiah X 3
Repentance and restitution X 2
Kindness X 2
The Prodigal Returns X 2


Evil Characters 34
Goat with Horn
Winged leopard
 Antiochus Epiphanes
Greek Philosophers
Philetus
12–fingered giant
Goliath X 2
Philistine Garrison X 2
Philistine armor bearer X 2
Queen Tapanis X 2
Egyptian Horsemen X 2
Huge Egyptian
Egyptian Magicians
King Shashak X 2
King Manasseh
Spirit of Temptation X 2
Wandering Spirit X 2
King of Tyrus X 2
King  Rehoboam X 2
Gomer X 2
Uzzah
Balaam
Astrologers

Evil Enhancements 38
Abomination of Desolation X 3
Pride of Simon X 2
Bringing Fear X 2
Wrath of Satan X 2
Foolish Advice X 2
Joseph’s Brothers’ Schemes X 2
Egyptian Spear X 2
Egyptian Horses X 2
Wonders Forgotten X 2
Evil Sprit X 2
Pagan Sacrifices X 2
Destructive Sin X 2
Suicidal Swine Stampede X 2
Death of Unrighteous X 2
Confusion X 2
Threatened Lives X 2
Invoking Terror X 2
2K Horses
Forgotten History X2

Sites 9
Babylonian Banqueting Hall X 2
Babylon X 5
Chorvzn X 2

Artifacts 14
Unholy Writ X 2
Magic Charms X 2
Lampstand in the Sanctuary X 2
Ashera Poll
Bronze Laver X 2
Rain becomes Dust X 2
Household Idols
I Am Creator
Chariots of Fire
Giving Over to Egypt X 2
Gifts X 2
Fortresses 7
Herod’s Temple X 2
Philistine Outpost X 2
Gates of Hell
Jerusalem Tower 
Kingdoms of this world
Goshen
Pithom

Well, the first thing is that big decks don't work in anything more than casual play, due to the inevitable time outs, so just keep that in mind. Other than that, for the most part, I like it. Disciples will pretty much whip you unless you take out Simon the Zealot quickly, but since they aren't seeing much play right now, the idea isn't a bad gig.

i was thinking of that what do you think that I could take out t make it smaller?

I'd have a Kingdoms of this World because you have no protection from AoCP, He is Risen, A Child is Born, and things like that. Maybe one of the Joseph's Bros schemes could go for that?

That is one thing that i had not thought of. I like side battles because then they use Gen Widow and discard 2 cards from hand , deck and territory.

Perhaps one of the J towers then? Also, I think Asherah Pole would be handy to make all of your enhancements CBN. I dont know what to take out for that though. Maybe a Lampstand?

imo scrap the deck there is too much going on here to even spend the time to save the deck.

I disagree. The defense might need some tightening up, but the idea looks very, very fun if he can pull it off.

Like I said, he focuses the defense a bit more, it'll be viable in casual play. You can "disagree" all you want, but you can't really say that my opinion that it looks like a fun idea is wrong. If he tightens the defense up to two colors, adds some drawing, and bumps it up to the full 154 with focus on hand discard with minor deck discard, it can most definitely work. Herolite/heroless, when done properly, are the strongest decks in the game.

Also, Philetus is a Greek, so he would probably be better than Greek Philosiphers. He can use Invoking Terror as a battle winner since he's crimson/black. 

Chorizin will allow you to have RBD/Gifts, if only for one turn.

When you put a LS in it, it can then hold a curse for 1 turn. So as long as it's empty you can control when you put a LS in it and, thus, when it can hold a curse.

In a 150 card deck you can have 9 turns of Kozarin (3 Kozarin, 3 side-doublers, 3 site-removers). That's assuming you draw all 9 (and in the right order) before you lose.

I like the concept of big decks after taking a 154-card mostly defense deck to Nationals. With just 4 heros and 6 good enhancements, I only flat-out lost once (Miriam!), won 3 times, and timed out 6. That deck had only seen one game before going to Nationals, so with a few tweaks it should be able to win a few more of those time out games...

Have fun with it!

I took care of a couple others in different games, but didn't get any of the cards I had that could do anything about her in the one.

If you're looking to add cards, Goshen would nice to protect your heroes from your own Wrath of Satan and your opponent's defense.