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   here is my two cents...

1. Black is an awesome brigade for this. its even best not to stick to one civilization either. Philly's are amazing on their own for site lock (completely lock if you wish to devote the card space), recurring, and brute killing power. Sadducees for HPP and Urim and Thummim. Wrath of Satan with Cornered is sweet and you can do anything you want again with Pride of Simon or King Amon (with Manassa as PO fodder).

2. Pale gree and Crimson are would be my next choices for Confusion, Desecrate the Temple (as was mentioned). both also have lots of tricky things they can do like Magician stuff, Great Image, the Horses, and the Babylonians have Nebby and Imitating Evil.

3. Sites would be good for sure! if not for lockout than for Color guard, Ashdod, possibly Herod's temple for un neggateable capture with that temple guard. black and crimson work well with sites you know (yes im sure u do)

4. if you wanted Zebby than you would have to keep him safe. what are the odd you opponent will get rid of CM? and if you lay him down and ur opponent gets wise Zebby will be toast. also have to watch nuking him with Wrath. so if u do have him you'll need space for Keirth Ravine, Healling card or two, couple of those protect from capture Covs...etc. sure Zebby can't be blocked but your opponent will have an Unholy Writ or CM or 30 Pieces or somthing and all it takes is one hit.

5. i build a 63 card site lock deck with Philly's (brown/black) and it did well. Zebby was in there. PO, Zaccheus, and Angel of Warning helped pull my ECs and forts out which made the deck more effective. and the heros simply burned more of my opponents defense (Unholy Writ, Amalkite Slave, Sabbath Breaker, Uzzah, etc)

anyway there is lots of potential for this strategy. lots of fun to use!!! hope i helped a little bit.
                                                                                                                                                                                                                       God Bless!
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turtle= slow. slow= stall. stall= David's harp/chamber of angels.

Sites won't quite do the trick, though they could help out some.  I want my opponent to be able to do ABSOLUTELY nothing, so that includes attacking (which could let them draw stuff, discard stuff, force me to defend, etc.).  Zebulun sounds interesting, so I'll definitely look into that.  High Priest's Plot and Desecrate the Temple make me a bit uneasy.  I really want to use them, but I also want to make sure that I'm not building my deck around the "Sadducees" and "Babylonians" archetypes; I want my playstyle to determine the cards I use and not vice versa.  And you're right about the paralysis stuff.  After going through the cards again, I found that only one of the paralysis cards contains the word "place," so all the others wouldn't work so well.

If I were to use Desecrate the Temple, High Priest's Plot, and Abomination of Desolation, how many Babylonians, Sadducees, and Greeks should I include in the deck to ensure a good probability of getting to use them?  Also which ones?  (Assuming a ~56 card deck.)

have you tried an egyptian discard deck?

Egyptian deck discard is much fun.  Especially when the first two cards you kill are CM and AotL.