Soul Warden, Soul's Attendant, Suture Priest - The deck begins with the sisters and the leader of the cult Suture Priest. They spread the word of the Lord and provide life to the cult.
Ajani's Pridemate - The first of two creatures that take advantage of the life gaining. Pridemates is the army of the cult growing larger as more members join.
Serra Ascendant - The cults message is defended by the Ascendants who's grows stronger while benefiting the cults health.
Drana's Chosen - The Chosen are selected for the ability to breed new followers that are born into the cult and ready to do the Lords Bidding.
Genesis Chamber - The breeding room of the Cult. The Chamber produces followers to the cult while sending cult members to the other side to corrupt the rival troops.
Descent of the Dragons - The cult uses its pet dragons to sacrifice followers, making them larger and making the cults forces nearly unbeatable.
Purphoros, God of the Forge - The higher being of the Cult. The God hits those who oppose the cult and it's Lord with every new follower the cult gains.
Lord of the Pit - The Lord himself commands his followers to do his bidding and make those who live in sin pay for their crimes against him. If his followers cannot win the battle, he will finish the war.
Chandra, Flamecaller - The Flamecaller is the Lords right hand.
Impact Tremors - With every new follower, the God and Lord cause tremors, shaking the land to kill all enemies in the way.
The deck was built around the Idea of an old 4th edition deck with Lord of The Pit and Breeding Pit. I wanted to use the Lord but am not 100% sold as he does not fit the overall theme of life gaining, growing off the life gained, or creating new followers. Perhaps Liege of the Pit instead too...
The sisters and priest are great early game creatures that get the ball rolling. Priest gets you life and with Chamber out also deals damage to the opponent.
Pridemates grow quickly to create large early game beasts. They will have to be dealt with quickly helping to get removal spells from the opponents hand. Same basic premise with the Ascendants.
Drana's Chosen and Genesis Chamber create more tokens to work with the sisters and deal damage with Tremors and Purphoros. Descent of the Dragons is used to wipe the field and sack needles tokens and creatures to get a stronger force that also places off of Tremors.
Flamecaller is here to create tokens, cycle bad hands, and wipe the board if need be.
The maybe board has direct damage, token creation, and Norin the Wary which is the card I think should be in this deck. Gorilla Shaman is in there too just as a possible mana source if things feel too slow. Ob Nixilis is a possibility to try and prevent digging for cards...
Thank you for taking the time to check out my deck. Any comments/suggestions/complaints/+1 are welcomed.
Soul Warden + Soul's Attendant + Suture Priest
- Base of the deck. Provide life gain and damage when other cards are in play.
Ajani's Pridemate - Grows bigger with every life gained.
Blood Artist + Nantuko Husk
- Husk is a sac source and grows with each follower gone while the artist provides damage for each sac.
Lingering Souls + Genesis Chamber - Provides more bodies to sac. Spectral Procession and Sound The Alarm! are options as well. Chamber maybe pulled for Bitterblossom down the road to prevent giving the opponent creatures with no Blood Seeker in the deck.
Impact Tremors provides damage for each creature brought in. Had Purphoros, God of the Forge in the deck before but tried to cut the mana cost and bring in other cards for a better theme.
Sanguine Bond - Felt like this was a good fit with all the life gain but i don't care for the mana cost. Exquisite Blood combo is too slow so that is out.
Westvale Abbey
+ Urborg, Tomb of Yawgmoth - The Abby provides another sac source and becomes a nice beater relatively easily in this deck. Urborg does what Urborg does....
Liege of the Pit - The big guy is here for fun and to complete the theme. Liege could also be replaced with Lord of the Pit for the same effect.
Strong Maybe - 2 or 3 Blood Funnel could speed things up and help get one of the big guys on the board faster. Debating what i'd pull for that.
Norin the Wary was pulled as i didn't think he fit the theme.
