This week, instead of playing a game, I’ll be sharing the deck list and an overview for the deck I ran at the Minnesota State Tournament this past weekend. It will look fairly familiar to those of you faithful watchers, especially if you’ve watched some of the recent online tournament livestreams. This is the most recent iteration of my Postexilic deck that really focuses on hand control throughout the whole deck.

I find this deck fun to play because it really makes you think about your best option in a given situation and can be like solving a puzzle each turn. It’s easy to make mistakes or just simply make the wrong decision, but if you’re able to make the right ones more often than not then this deck can be quite powerful. I think it’s a great deck to practice with if you want to sharpen your in-game decision-making skills, which I definitely could’ve used at one point on Saturday. Check out the deck overview here and then in the video description for a link to the games played at MN State this past weekend!

Deck: 51

1    Lost Soul (Covet)
1    Lost Soul “Darkness” (Job 30:26) (Promo)
1    Lost Soul (Distressed)
1    Lost Soul (Jeremiah 28:6) (Exiles)
1    Lost Soul (Jeremiah 22:3) (Orphans)
1    Lost Soul (Prosperity)
1    Lost Soul “Thorns” (II Samuel 23:6) (LoC)
1    Lost Soul (Hopper) (FoM)

1    Crowd’s Choice (GoC)
1    Three Woes (RoJ AB)
1    Angel of the Lord (2020 Promo)
1    Son of God (Promo 2018)
1    The Second Coming (CoW AB)
1    Christian Martyr (2019) (Promo)
1    Vain Philosophy (PoC)

1    Golgotha (GoC)
1    Book of the Law (LoC)
1    Denarius (I/J+)
1    Golden Calf (FoM)
1    The Cross (GoC UR+)
1    Unsuccessful (PoC)
1    Delivered

1    Eleazar, the Potentate / Eleazar, the Vassal (LoC)
1    Eliud, the Revolutionary / Eliud, the Pious (LoC)
1    Ezra, Favored by God (LoC)
1    Jeshua, the Restorer (LoC)
1    Jeremiah, Hope Bringer
1    Zechariah, the Renewer
1    David, Outcasts’ Refuge / David, the Anointed (LoC)
1    Achim, the Compiler / Achim, the Talmid (LoC)
1    Zerubbabel, the Chosen / Zerubbabel, the Builder (LoC Plus)
1    Haggai (PoC)

1    The Emmaus Road
1    The First Sacrifice
1    Solomon’s Dream (LoC)
1    Virgin Birth
1    Zerubbabel’s Plumb Line (LoC)
1    Amazing Faith (GoC)
1    Teaching in Parables (GoC)

1    The Terrifying Beast (PoC)
1    Emperor Domitian (RoJ AB)
1    Emperor Nero (Promo)

1    Pontius Pilate (Promo) (Not in Lackey yet)
1    Simon the Host (GoC)
1    The Entrapping Pharisee (GoC)
1    The Deceiver (RoJ AB)

1    Romans Destroy Jerusalem (GoC)
1    Clinging to Power (GoC)
1    Balaam’s Prophecy
1    Pretension (GoC)
1    Sorrow of Mary (J)

Reserve:
1    Judge’s Seat (I/J+)
1    Oath of Purity (LoC)
1    Jehoshaphat, the Seeker / Jehoshaphat, the Meek (LoC)
1    Jephthah’s Daughter
1    Joshua, the Conqueror (LoC)
1    Jephthah (J)
1    The Coming Prince
1    Foreign Wives
1    Tenants Kill the Son (GoC)
1    Fear of Man (GoC)

By Jayden

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.