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I 100% agree that this event is so often overlooked and should be referenced more (I even used if for inspiration on a card I designed a while back)!

The ability feels a bit reminiscent of Valley of Dry Bones. The power balance between the two is interesting - Valley is best used in decks that can generate a lot of captured heroes, and only resurrects one, while this resurrects for everyone. Valley (usually) also takes the hero to the territory whereas this reserves them after battle.

All in all, I dig it, though the fact that it's comparable to a dominant means it may be a bit strong. Some kind of condition around SoG could be very flavorful. Having it be three of your four proposed good brigades would mean that it's a bit easier to splash in T1 but also (more importantly) restrict it to one per deck for T2.

I say make it a Dominant, make it conditional upon SoG being in your discard pile, and then do all the stuff you have it doing.

I feel like Clay is out of the question because the church wasn't established until after Jesus ascended into heaven but I agree this is too strong to be easily played by lots of brigades and possibly recurred so making it a Dominant makes it so you can't recur it unless you use Second Coming which would be silly with SoG already in your discard pile.