Man, I love that old Evil art. Upvoted just because of that
Schemes seems a bit strong - I think in particular Saducees and Magicians would love it. I'm a bit leery of automatic "play first," but I suppose that since it's a soul it's easy enough to negate/get rid of.
Hope is really strong. I can't think of a deck that couldn't find space for a multicolor itb/d3/pn, and being all brigades as well as both OT and NT makes it easy to recur.
These look great and interesting!