Priest of Forgotten Gods

Creature — Human Cleric

T, Sacrifice two other creatures: Any number of target players each lose 2 life and sacrifice a creature. You add BB and draw a card.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Arena	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Gladiator	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Historic	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Modern	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Pioneer	Legal
Tiny Leaders	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

itsbuzzi on A Draining Aristocracy

1 week ago

Welcome to the format and nice budget list! I've seen a slightly upgraded version of this adding Green for Renegade Rallier and Kaya's Ghostform for an infinte combo. Adding green allowed them to play Collected Company to find the pieces easier. All you need is a sacrifice outlet (they ran Cartel Aristocrat along with Woe Strider). You have Kaya's Ghostform attached to Renegade Rallier, sacrifice the Rallier, it triggers the enter the battlefield trigger you attach Kaya's Ghostform from the graveyard to the Rallier and repeat along with a creature like Zulaport Cutthroat to deal damage while doing it.

It's a pretty cool deck I would suggest at least another sacrifice outlet as you only have Cartel Aristocrat and Priest of Forgotten Gods that has to tap to activate. There is most likely another combo with Bontu's Monument and Oathsworn Vampire as well. Honestly the rest of the deck and the sideboard look pretty good.

I think I found another if you ran Liliana, Untouched By Death and Shambling Ghast activating her ultimate then continually sacrificing Ghast and casting it again.

plakjekaas on New to Pioneer

1 week ago

I have a pretty similar list to yours. The major differences: I love Hidden Stockpile in my list as both a sacrifice outlet and a fodder generator. I've replaced a few Priest of Forgotten Gods with those. As for non-budget options, there's the obvious The Meathook Massacre and the less obvious Athreos, God of Passage that is a pet card of mine, that has overperformed in the few games I played so far with the deck. The devotion is almost trivial with so many 1-drops and multicolored 2-drops, and also really easy to turn off when you need to, by nature of the deck.

wallisface on Baby You're a Firework

1 month ago

Some cards that might help you:

Mayhem Devil, Goblin Bombardment, Carrion Feeder (especially alongside Gravecrawler), Jadar, Ghoulcaller of Nephalia, Dreadhorde Butcher, Bloodghast, Cauldron Familiar (alongside Witch's Oven), Priest of Forgotten Gods.

thefiresoflurve on Infinite Elenda

1 month ago

In the vein of sac outlets: Priest of Forgotten Gods might be good if you want a little more creature removal for your opponents. I like it a bit better than Vampiric Rites for that reason, and since it produces mana rather than taking it away. The downside is it won't kickstart the Sanguine Bond / Exquisite Blood combo.

Kripkenstein on Tergrid EDH

1 month ago

I can really recommend Vindictive Lich for this deck. He forces sacrifices and discards. Also Grave Pact and Dictate of Erebos are really good. Priest of Forgotten Gods is a very good sac outlet for this deck, as it ramps, draws cards and forces sacrifices as well.

I use them in my Teysa EDH Teysa Karlov Commander which has a similar theme.

Housegheist on Teysa Karlov’s Double D's

1 month ago

420MensRightsActivist

Well, it's true, that the ability of Priest of Forgotten Gods won't trigger twice. But the 2 sacrificed creatures will do if you either they have a "dies" effect" or you have another permanent which triggers on "dies" like Grave Pact or Blood Artist

420MensRightsActivist on Teysa Karlov’s Double D's

1 month ago

lowsypunk & Housegheist: Priest of Forgotten Gods will not be affected by teysa because it's an activated ability, not a triggered ability.

thefiresoflurve on Myrkul, aristochantments

1 month ago

Dockside Chef -> Priest of Forgotten Gods might be a decent replacement. I like the Priest better in this style of deck since it kills things faster and gives mana instead of sinking mana.

Also, not sure about Heartless Summoning. You have 14 creatures that it doesn't give full value for, and that's fairly significant. I would run Smothering Tithe over it.