The Immortal Priest (Experiment)

The Immortal Priest (Experiment)

As the title implies, this is a deck I'm still experimenting with.

The goal of the deck is to attach Soothing Melody (via Hallowed Mirror) to Dayana Esperence so that you have healing and card draw "on demand", making Father Mateo "The Immortal Priest".

Since I'm using In the Thick of It basically for her (using his 5 Free XP on Blessed cards), I'll give myself 2 Mental Trauma, which Soothing Melody will heal.

Filling the bag with tokens

This is also a "Blessed" deck which uses Priest of Two Faiths and Tempt Fate to add counters to the bag. You want at least 1 (but preferably 3) in the bag when you play Favor of the Sun.

Payoffs:

• Ancient Covenant lets a resolved end the sequence (instead of drawing another token as per the rules of and tokens) and...
• Favor of the Sun lets you resolve a sealed token here rather than drawing from the bag, making...
  • most (if not all) tests guaranteed to succeed
  • Ward of Radiance a "free" treachery cancel
  • Prescient guaranteed to bring a Spell card back from discard

Arcane Assets

Two copies each of Eyes of the Dreamer and Wither are here for consistency in finding them, but you'll only play 1 of each. They're necessary because Read the Signs and Spectral Razor only add to the Investigate or Attack, but they're still and tests respectively, so you can't commit Enraptured, Guts, or Prescient to them.

These assets use instead of or , allowing you to commit those icons.

• Enraptured adds a secret back to Dayana Esperence (three once you upgrade to Enraptured (2), although you can spread those among Scroll of Prophecies and / or Eyes of the Dreamer if you choose).
• Guts is more card draw (two once you upgrade to Guts (2))
• Prescient gets Spell cards back from discard:
  • Read the Signs
  • Spectral Razor
  • Ward of Protection
  • Soothing Melody (the ones NOT attached to Dayana Esperence), which you might play to avoid spending one of her secrets
  • Discarded copies of Eyes of the Dreamer or Wither

Scroll of Prophecies

This is just more card draw so you can see the cards that you want. Since a discard is required, consider discarding a Spell card which you'll be able to get back later with Prescient.

You want to see Priest of Two Faiths before Dayana Esperence and Favor of the Sun, and Dayana Esperence before Hallowed Mirror, so any card draw to facilitate that is welcome!

Upgrades

The priority upgrade for me is Enraptured (2), which extends the usefulness of both Dayana Esperence and Scroll of Prophecies.

Next, Read the Signs >> Read the Signs (2) and Spectral Razor >> Spectral Razor (2) are great upgrades here because you'll be able to trigger their "Return to hand" text consistently thanks to Favor of the Sun.

Emergency Cache >> Emergency Cache (2) and Guts >> Guts (2) both increase your card draw.

If you have extra XP, Wither >> Wither (4) can be useful against boss enemies.