WIP Orzhov Midrange list attempting to abuse enchantment recursion with Auramancer and Custodi Squire.
Card choices:
Auramancer - the card I wanted to build around. Only really synergises with Dead Weight and Seal of Doom, but that's still worth it. It's almost like a Pauper Skinrender or Nekrataal.
Blind Hunter - I can't put it well enough, but this guy is good. Stabilises and acts as a win condition. The Haunt doesn't come up always, but it does happen, and the life difference it makes is big.
Custodi Squire - Auramancer++. It's one of the best cards in the deck and you're never sad to see them (unless manascrew happens). Two of them can chain together and create a constant stream of value threats. Not on MTGO though, which is very sad indeed.
Phyrexian Rager - I wanted an easy to cast, value early drop and settled on this one. I might try Thraben Inspector as well, but so far I'm happy with the Rager.
Sinuous Vermin - early drop that scales well into the late game. Unavailable on MTGO. I'm not sure that it's the best creature in its price range, but Kor Skyfisher was far too slow. Ghoulcaller's Accomplice might be better.
Dead Weight - great early removal spell, kills a lot of important early drops, takes out Atog and Mulldrifter too. Easy target for recursion.
Journey to Nowhere - cheap hard removal. If they bring in enchantment destruction, you can recur them. You can go deep with Seal of Cleansing too (kill Journey with Seal in response to the exile, then bring it back), but that doesn't seem worth it.
Pestilence - having one of these in the main is rarely a bad thing in my experience, and even if it dies, it's not really gone in this deck. Great sweeper.
Seal of Doom - the main reason to run Auramancer. It's a bit pricey for the effect, but recursion makes it very worth it. Good against Drake (RIP), it allows you to hold up removal even while tapped out.
Bojuka Bog - some might prefer another utility land, like Mortuary Mire, but I like the Bog. It's rarely amazing, but it's often at least somewhat good, and I don't think this deck needs Mire, it's got enough recursion.
Castigate - good early disruption. Exiling instead of discarding matters quite often and the mana cost isn't too high.
Chainer's Edict - great against Bogles, good against a lot of other stuff as well. I've been thinking about trying something else here, but I'm really not sure what. Stab Wound / Quag Sickness / Unmake?
Night's Whisper - best card draw in these colours.
The sideboard should be fairly obvious, there aren't really any unconventional choices there other than the synergistic ones.
