Tribal Clerics

by tinytone on 19 September 2021

Main Deck (60 cards)

Sideboard (17 cards)

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Deck Description

This is a tribal clerics deck with lots of life gain and enter the battle field effects.

One of the nasty combos in this deck is to someone get Archfiend's Vessel into the graveyard, and then later return it to the battlefield. This transforms the 1/1 Cleric into a 5/5 Demon with flying!

Orah, Skyclave Hierophant is a card that brings back a cleric from the graveyard when another cleric dies! This can help create the above combo to create a 5/5 demon from the Archfiend Vessel.

There are several 1 off's in this deck:
- Vito, Thorn of the Dusk Rose
- Taborax, Hope's Demise
- Drana, the Last Bloodchief

These powerful 1 off's can be tutored to if you have the Pyre of Heroes artifact in play. By sacrificing a creature with X mana cost, you can put into play another Cleric that costs X + 1! This allow you to upgrade a 3 drop into a 4 drop... then later into a 5 drop.

Sacrificing our own creatures isn't all bad - having an Orah, Skyclave Hierophant in play allows us to return a creature to the battlefield.
So assume we have a Pyre of Heroes and an Orah in play. We could:
- Sacrifice the Orah cleric to the Pyre of Heros
- Tutor to a 5 drop cleric (e.g. Drana, the Last Bloodchief) and put her in play
- We can also return a 3 drop cleric (e.g. Righteous Valkyrie) to the battlefield
- The Righteous Valkrie sees another Cleric (Drana) enter the battlefield, so we gain 4 life too.

How to Play

Turn 1:
- Archfiend's Vessel

Turn 2:
- Cleric of Life's Bond

Turn 3:
- Demon's Disciple - sacrificing the Archfiend's Vessel
- The Cleric of Life's Bond gains you 1 life and you place a +1/+1 counter on him

Turn 4
- Pyre of Heroes
- Use the Pyre of Hero's to sacrifice the Demon's Disciple (3 CMC) to retrieve a 4 CMC Cleric from your library into play: Orah, Skyclave Hierophant
- The Cleric of Life's Bond gains you 1 life and you place a +1/+1 counter on him,

Turn 5:
- Play a Elderfang Disciple (2 CMC)
- The Cleric of Life's Bond gains you 1 life and you place a +1/+1 counter on him
- Use the Pyre of Hero's to sacrifice the Elderfang Disciple (2 CMC) to retrieve a 3 CMC Cleric from your library into play: Righteous Valkyrie
- A Cleric died! Orah, Skyclave Hierophant allows your to return a cleric with lesser mana cost from the graveyard to the battlefield. We pick the Archfiend's Vessel
- You gain 1 life from Righteous Valkyrie as a Cleric entered the battlefield
- Archfiend's Vessel enters the battlefield and becomes a 5/5 black Demon creature with flying!

... The combos keep on coming! Lots of life gain. Lots of flying creatures. Lots of grave yard resurrections.

Go Clerics! ;)

Deck Tags

  • Orzhov
  • Tribal
  • Standard
  • Reanimate
  • clerics

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Card Legality

  • Not Legal in Standard
  • Legal in Modern
  • Legal in Vintage
  • Legal in Legacy

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