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Little bit of explanation to go with these.

Activating a curse may seem an odd choice for a hero's ability (though there is some precedent in The Two Witnesses). However, Elijah predicts a drought as judgement on Ahab, so RBD seemed appropriate. At the Lord's command, he also anoints Jehu as King and appoints his successor Elisha, hence the other part of his ability. The Unity interaction was an idea to allow him to use Zion, although I'm sure there's plenty of fun to be had with it.

Prophets of Baal is a slightly different take on the bottom-access magician we've seen for Egypt and Babylon. The decrease is a reference to how they cut themselves attempting to get Baal to answer. Like Philistine Diviners, it's playable in a magicians deck but better with its nationality.

Display of Power is a reference to the sacrifice fight on Mount Carmel. On the evil side, you can essentially turn it plus one other evil card from hand into any EE in your deck. On the good side, it's a powerful battlewinner that can get rid of an opponent's curse or idol, but is still usable otherwise. I considered adding an interrupt if played against a magician, but that would make the ability pretty long.

Mount Carmel is an extra artifact slot, filling a similar role as Corrupted Temple, with some bonus CBP as well. Prophets are in a surprisingly wide array of offenses, not just green.

Thoughts?

I like them.  I immediately nodded in agreement at RBD, and it is very fitting.  Also, you could introduce a Faith of Elijah card instead because of James 5:17 in relation to the drought.

Display of Power I think should avoid DAE because the whole point of that confrontation was to show that the false gods were and are powerless and useless. 

Cool idea!

Made some updates to all cards and added a new one.

Elijah is no longer TC or has the unity shenanigans. Instead, he effectively discards a curse when he wins a battle (winning on Mt. Carmel ended the drought, after all). This means that if you use his ability to play RBD from deck, he discards it if he wins (and if you activate it on him, you lose if it he dies too).

Minor update by giving the Prophets of Baal a band. This has precedence in Egyptian magicians, and stems from how close they were with Jezebel, and the fact that there were 400 of them there.

Display of Power is now only good. The CBI is conditional, but I added a conditional interrupt as well. Still probably too powerful, but it's interesting (and if your opponent doesn't have an idol or curse it has a cost). I did like the evil ability as well; I may have to use it for something else in the future. Divination reprint maybe?

I added Unity:Canaanites to Mount Carmel (the idol part still works because it's an identifier, though), as well as an interesting add to battle/cost. Not sure if there's any precedent for replacing abilities like that, but I thought it was an interesting balance.

New card Sacrifice Challenge to represent both sides now. The wording feels inelegant, and the CB stuff is probably bonkers, but side battles are fun, right? We love side battles now. (Honestly, this is probably the worst of the bunch).