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It can work if you out race your opponents Nazzy or play Bennedictus+side battle but I would be careful as I know your playgroup plays Nazzy quite heavily.

Man that card shut some stuff down. I really dont want to see the protection go away next set. I like no confusions/false peaces whatnot...

If you get it out fast enough you could confusion there nazereths.

If you get it out fast enough you could confusion there nazereths.

and then recur confusions off of golgotha+abe's kid

One hesitation I've always had with Confusion T2 decks (besides the obvious counters) is that I wonder if they would be consistently effective against the variety of T2 decks you see today. For example, a Confusion deck that was able to pull off 2 or 3 against a Job deck (and obviously discarding all copies of Dust and Ashes) would clearly win assuming the offense could break through. However, against say a Disciples deck, what exactly are you going to discard? I suppose as many copies of Thaddeus as you could, with Forgotten History to remove them, but Disciples still has plenty of firepower even without Thad going beast mode. If you pack 5 Confusions (hoping to get off 2-3 or more if they don't use Naz/HSR/JTower), does that leave you enough defense to stop an opponent's offense? Confusion isn't a battle winner, it's more of a "battle preventer." You could discard 5 cards from my deck on my first 5 rescue attempts, but if you don't have a battle winner to go with it, I'm still going to get a LS--perhaps without even using any good enhancements.

I guess the bottom line is this: is the risk of five wasted card slots worth the reward of pulling off Confusion once? Twice? Three times? And even if you got 5 discards, will that even be enough against the majority of decks?

Just some thoughts, interested in everyone's insights.

If I made a confusion deck, I wouldn't go afters heroes. My main thing would be doms amd then forts/sites that hurt my deck.  heroes and enhancements are too easily reaccurable now to waste it on them (unless it's a multi brigade card and I can remove it from the game later).

Don't underestimate knowing the contents of your opponent's deck.  If you are in a tournament, facing a player and/or deck you've never played, it might be useful to know the contents of your opponent's deck.

Also, discarding Son of God alone can be a 2-3 LS swing in the final score, since Son of God stops your rescue attempt and gives a redeemed soul (or 2 with NJ) to your opponent.

Beyond that, like Justin said, the effectiveness really depends on what strategies your opponent is using.  If they depend too heavily on one card, then your Confusions can get you a win.  If not, then it will be more difficult to decide what to remove, and you will wish you had more battle winners instead.

I used Confusions effectively in my nats-winning T2-2-player deck waaaaay back in the day (up through Patriarchs I think).  But with all the protection from search in the meta now, I doubt I'd include it in a 2-player T2 tournament deck.  In Multi, I'd include 5 for sure.  

It is my experience that a Nazzy is usually up within the first 2 turns. At least, in T2 Multi.