Redemption with Jayden: Infinite Draw? Infinite Tokens? Seems Decent
Join Jayden for one of the most remarkable combos ever discovered in the history ofRedemption!
Another week, another broken combo, except this one is definitely worse than The First… Instead of a bunch of different drawing cards that all add up to going through your entire deck, this combo simplifies things significantly by only requiring three cards to draw your entire deck: Ephesian Widow, Life in the Son, and a meek Clay Hero. Ephesian Widow is an old school Persecuted Church Hero that lets you grab a good convert Enhancement from your discard pile whenever you put an Ephesus Hero in play. Life in the Son has everything you need with a convert ability, a bounce ability, and a draw ability, so as long as you have a meek clay Hero out for the draw, you can bounce Ephesian Widow, draw a card, play Ephesian Widow to grab Life in the Son from discard, and do it all again while having time to play other characters and enhancements along the way to avoid hand limit. Not only that, but if you have a unique Ephesus church Hero then you can bounce it up and down to make infinite Hero tokens with The Church of Christ and then play Sowing Bountifully to discard every evil card in their deck. I don’t know about y’all, but I think that seems pretty good, so I decided to try it out against Josh Potratz (a.k.a. Kevinthedude) in Round 1 of the second Lackey Grand Prix. Take a closer look at the deck and check out the game below!
Deck:
1 Lost Soul (Awake)
1 Lost Soul “Darkness” (Job 30:26) (Promo)
1 Lost Soul (Jeremiah 28:6) (Exiles)
1 Lost Soul “Imitate” (III John 1:11) (RoJ AB)
1 Lost Soul (Lawless) (Promo)
1 Lost Soul (Prosperity)
1 Lost Soul (Wanderer) (FoM)
1 Lost Soul (Hopper) (FoM)
1 Chronicles of the Kings (LoC Plus)
1 Crowd’s Choice (GoC)
1 Destruction of Nehushtan (PoC)
1 Three Woes (RoJ AB)
1 Son of God (2020 Promo)
1 The Second Coming (CoW AB)
1 Mayhem (FoM)
1 Denarius (I/J+)
1 The Cross (GoC UR+)
1 The Great White Throne (RoJ AB)
1 The New Covenant (I/J+)
1 Peter’s Curse (GoC)
1 Confusion of Mind (PoC)
1 The Church of Christ (GoC)
1 Delivered
1 Fifth Seal (Justice Seekers) (RoJ AB)
1 Noah, the Righteous / Noah (Rest and Comfort) (LoC)
1 Jeshua, the Restorer (LoC)
1 Jesse, the Ephrathite / Jesse, the Root (LoC)
1 Mary, Holy Virgin / Mary, Willing Servant (GoC)
1 Obed, the Servant / Obed, the Gift (LoC)
1 Ephesian Widow
1 The Ephesian Mentor
1 Faith
1 The Coming Prince
1 Life Through Christ
1 The Emmaus Road
1 The First Sacrifice
1 Faith of Isaac (CoW AB)
1 Solomon’s Dream (LoC)
1 The Lord’s Prayer (GoC)
1 Life in the Son (GoC)
1 Sowing Bountifully
1 Spirit as a Dove (GoC)
1 Love Righteousness (CoW AB)
1 Foreign Wives
1 Supercilious Scribes (GoC)
1 The Divining Damsel (Promo)
1 Emperor Nero (Promo)
1 The Deceiver (RoJ AB)
1 The Wages of Sin (FoM)
1 Balaam’s Prophecy
Reserve:
1 David’s Harp (Promo)
1 Endless Treasures (Errata)
1 Unsuccessful (PoC)
1 Gamaliel’s Speech
1 David, the Psalmist (CoW AB)
1 Feast of Trumpets (LoC)
1 The Lord Goes Before You
1 Zerubbabel’s Plumb Line (LoC)
1 Persian Horsemen / Persian Horses
1 Confusion (CoW AB)
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Jayden started playing Redemption around 2004 when his brothers taught him to play and he attended his first National Tournament in 2005. Since then, he has become a competitive (mostly Type 2) player with a few National titles and, more importantly, has acquired many great friends and mentors through the game. However, in the years leading up to 2020, there has been a downward trend in attendance at some of the big tournaments, Nationals included. As a result, Jayden wanted to start doing something that would help pique and maintain interest in Redemption and he decided to do so in the form of a YouTube channel called Redemption with Jayden, which he started in June 2020 shortly after graduating college. He loves being able to share decks, games, and strategies, and hopes that the channel can be a useful resource for players at every level of the game.
