Lifegain? Hella strong creatures? Removal? Yes please! Check it out, my nigletts.
Turn 1: Hopefull Eidolon
Turn 2: Assuming that you have been praising the sun thoroughly and luck is on your side, drop 2x Ethereal Armor. He will be a 7/7 with lifelink. Swing.
Turn 3: One of the cards I anticipate the most from JOU is
Armament of Nyx
. On a side note, this card is hella good for this deck because everything is an enchantment so it works in my favor but it also has the potential to dick my opponent over. Back to the task at hand, the armament makes him a 9/9 with double strike and lifelink. Swing and win.
Moving on to the deck itself, we have a lot of good stuff rolling here:
Athreos, God of Passage-a cornerstone in this deck. Someone may kill one of your enchantments, but they are gonna' have a heck of a choice to make afterwards. This card synergizes quite well the maggot, the fat demon, and the big eidolon in this deck. In playtests, almost everytime when they are killed by my opponent they take the life because they don't want to deal with them anymore. When they let me have them again, they lose even faster.
Brain Maggot
-causes early hand disruption
Ethereal Armor-a one drop bomb in this deck. When everything in this deck is an enchantment, it gets dumb real quick
Banishing Light- enchantment based removal. Any nonland permanent.. Yes please!!
Eidolon of Countless Battles, Master of the Feast, Whip of Erebos are later game drops that are painful to deal with. Let us not forget the synergy between the fat demon and
Spirit of the Labyrinth
. Bwahahaha. NOTE: a synergy will only exist between the spirit and the demon if there are multiple demons on the field. Multiple Master of Feasts is stupid hard to deal with and the spirit could make it so the opponent only gets one card from their effect. Also, it prevents the opponent from doing any funny business with card drawing and a two drop 3/1 body is also pretty handy
As for the sideboard, I am not quite sure how to approach it. This is where I need help. Upon further playtesting, I will know exactly what needs to be here. So, in the short term, I have some removal, some extra creatures, and the means to dick up reanimator which is becoming more common in my local meta...so yeah...burn in hell, reanimator!
Orzhov is perhaps my favorite dual color to play and ever since Innistrad rotated out, I haven't played it. Thank the Lawd that JOU is better than Born of the Gods. I preordered two booster boxes I am so pumped. Give me some feedback, kids!
