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I've actually played a version of this deck almost exclusively from the time Priests came out until this Nats. Most of the time I played it with house of eleazar priests to add protection from discard abilities and attempted to make a small army of annoyingly hard to kill priests. One of the main issues is speed and consistency, which Eleazar helped a lot with, but then it relies a lot on drawing Eleazar. Another issue besides negates is battle winners. Zeal for the Lord is basically the only interrupt battle winner and while it is definitely an absolutely amazing card the addition of coliseum to the game hurt it a lot. Coliseum also counters Scapegoat, one of priests only negates. Trumpet and Sword can kill Coliseum but again you have to draw it and play it without getting negated. The lack of any CBP enhancements that aren't Zeal also hurts. Back to the original premise of the deck, the protection stuff, it was definitely better in previous metas. These days (with the exception of some) most defenses don't actively try to kill all your heros but instead rely on things like shuffling/protecting souls, withdraws, end the battle, etc. In my experience at least, while the deck is awesome and I love it's concept, it just doesn't seem to perform these days.

I love using Zeal and Trumpet Blast/Trumpet and Sword because if they use Coliseum then I don't have to worry about sacrificing one of my own Sites.

Jordan Interrupted+T-Blast on Joshua is pretty awesome.

Even Burning Incense is pretty strong when you have the ability to see their hand with Urim & Thummim.

While I think Tabernacle Priests are better overall (better characters, Aaron's Staff, Eli's Sound Advice and Zadok Annoints), the protection offered by Z-Temple is legit.

Characters can't be protected from themselves unfortunately

What about the Arrest + Stoic combo? I thought that didn't work anymore.