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So yeah, haven't been doing blogs like I said I would. Nothing to talk about.

Until now.

So, anybody who has been following the spoilers knows there have been quite a few cards spoiled so far. And I have to say, I'm pretty excited. I intend to go Simic at the prerelease, and if I can make it to multiple prereleases (like I did for RTR), the order after Simic will most likely be Dimir, Boros, Gruul, Orzhov. But I'm not here to talk about that.

I'm here to talk about the Orzhov cards that have been spoiled so far. Yeah, I know it seems like I'm not very excited about them since they're dead last on my list of "multiple prerelease" picks, but that's only because I don't think they'd be that great in Sealed Limited. In constructed, however, I expect them to do very well. Especially in my black-white Cleric deck.

One of the very first decks I fell in love with was black-white Clerics, back in the days of Odyssey and Onslaught. As such, I tend to update the deck from time to time when new Clerics with really nice abilities are added. And Orzhov has already spoiled two very nice Clerics I can't wait to tweak my Cleric deck around. And also the Boros have added another Cleric that would have room, as well.

The Orzhov Clerics I speak of are Syndic of Tithes and Vizkopa Confessor . Both have Extort, and in my Cleric.dec build they both cost very little. "How is that?" you may ask. I shall tell you: Heartless Summoning and Edgewalker . The Syndic becomes free to cast, and the Confessor costs . Which leaves so much mana open for me to be paying for Extort.

However, I'd want to identify this deck as something else. In fact, I'd like to make it a theme, of sorts: Church of Deals. Which would take the deck in a different direction than the one I've been playing on MTGO (whenever I log on). The most recent incarnation of my black-white Cleric deck focuses heavily on supporting Cleric tribal. This deck would focus mainly on politics and "group hug"ness.

So, cards that get to stick around from the current incarnation: Battletide Alchemist , Doubtless One , Heartless Summoning , Edgewalker , and Shields of Velis Vel . That's 15 cards right there, plus the 9 from GTC that will be in this deck, making 24 card slots filled. That leaves 12 slots minimum. Since this deck is named Church of Deals, I'm thinking I should include some Clerics from the original Ravnica block. But there aren't a lot of good choices. Orzhov Pontiff is pretty much the only one worth taking. Then there's Entomber Exarch and Inquisitor Exarch which both fit nicely in the deck. But now I need something that keeps the 1/1s I want to keep out from dieing to the Summoning...I suppose Adaptive Automaton will do. Oh, what the heck, make it a 21 land deck and add the Orzhov Charm that they haven't spoiled as of yet. It can't be that bad, right? If it turns out to be bad, I'll replace it with Zealous Persecution .

Well, that's a fairly quick decklist making:

Church of Deals
3 x Heartless Summoning
3 x Edgewalker
3 x Adaptive Automaton
3 x Battletide Alchemist
3 x Doubtless One
3 x Shields of Velis Vel
3 x Orzhov Pontiff
3 x Inquisitor Exarch
3 x Entomber Exarch
3 x Orzhov Charm
3 x Vizkopa Confessor
3 x Syndic of Tithes
3 x Frontline Medic

3 x Isolated Chapel
3 x Godless Shrine
1 x Vault of the Archangel
4 x Swamp
6 x Plains
4 x Orzhov Guildgate

I'll probably eventually find that this doesn't hold up as well as I'd like and might expand it to a 75 card deck, as I tend to do when playing outside of Modern or Standard.