The Decks of Nationals 2024 (Type 1, 2 Player)

The following is a list of all deck registered in the T1 2P Nationals Tournament that happened on August 2nd, 2024 in Allendale, Michigan.

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Sorted By Place

1st Place: BaboonyTim's Nativity / Herods

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2nd Place: Jake Antonet'z Nativity / Herods

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3rd Place: Jayden Alstad's Nativity / Thieves

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4th Place: Jeremy Chamber's Clay / Herods

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8th Place: Emmanuel Echavarria's Daniel / Demons

Daniel is Metal...

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9th Place: Brian Jone's Clay / Thieves

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10th Place: Shon Sievers' Priests / Black

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11th Place: Justin Alstad's Nativity / Black Gray

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12th Place: John Hendrix's Nativity / Black Gray

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13th Place: Matt Potratz's Daniel / Demons

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14th Place: Charles Johnson's Blue / Pale Green

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15th Place: Stephen Brook's Clay / Thieves

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16th Place: Jonathan Greeson's Clay / Black Soul Hide

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17th Place: James Courtney's Nativity / Thieves

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18th Place: Jay Chamber's Clay / Herods

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19th Place: Chad Frantz's Nativity / Herods

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20th Place: Zach Gilbaugh's Clay / Herods

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21st Place: Jacob Arrowood's Clay / Herods

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22nd Place: Sean Murphy's Clay / Herods

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23rd Place: Joe Robert's Red / Black Soul Hide

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24th Place: Philip Anderson's Clay / Gray

Philip's Write Up:
This deck isn’t your traditional clay deck. It doesn't run Mary, Peter, John, Matthias, or Joanna. It does want a Matthew boost, but it also runs one uncommon character: James, the Fisherman (“Big James” as he's called in The Chosen). Why? To negate ALL neutrals: to negate my artifact, Scroll of Isaiah, obtained from reserve (five ways to this card in deck!).

Scroll of Isaiah says that good convert enhancements (not just abilities!) are CBN; the granting of the modifier is CBN, but the rest of the artifact is negated. Thus, the opponent isn't given the option to “instead” the convert. And this deck is loaded with convert cards: Great Commission, Love One Another, Redemption, and His Sacrifice. This deck is crueler against demon or animal decks because they cannot be converted, but the enhancements are still CBN without James, dealing other damage to non-humans. And it's nice to pair this CBN convert stuff with Andrew-negate-everything from reserve! This Scroll/James combo was a bug that YTG Pastor Andy put in my ear.

If Scroll is removed or never gotten out of reserve, Bartholomew makes Gospel enhancements CBN, as does Spirit as a dove. Authority of Christ is also an awesome enhancement. So if this strategy doesn't take off, it's OK.

Maybe James is slowing me down. Maybe. But it is nice to say, “Uh, that's negated. Because of James.” :)

Now, John could be in the deck, but John doesn't convert to clay. Peter does, but he gets me only one card, Herod’s Temple. I may remove an angel hero to include Philip in a future tournament version of the deck.

The neutral cards I run are compatible with Big James half the time, too. I run all meek souls, but probably could have gotten away with Wicked or Humble since they are CBN. Golden Cherubim is CBN. Send the Helper is not CBN, but I could use the enhancement side. Golgotha’s search ability can be negated, but not the granting of the CBP modifier!

When the evil characters are converted, my defense can make use of them: good ol’ Simon the Host, to choose the attacker. And who better to choose than that villain I just converted to Teal or Blue or Red? Because Simon is 3/11, it'll probably end in stalemate, unless they fight me with a dominant.

The rest of the defense is grey Pharisees stuff, with a Sadducees splash.