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This is the most elegant deity aura, if not one of the most nostalgically elegant aura's ever.

Is it better than Holy Strength and Unholy Strength? That really depends. I wouldn't deck this card unless I had more than a handful of hybrid creatures to reap both bonuses. If you don't have the stuff to do so, the card's a narrower version of the two above-mentioned cards, which isn't always a bad thing because it can be white Unholy or black Holy depending on the color of the creature you're enchanting. Overall, it's pretty good.

It's much better than Holy Strength or Unholy Strength. It can replace either of those cards, but more importantly, it's doubly good for creatures that are both black and white.
It's not narrower, it's broader and has twice the potential.

Get a Scuttlemutt so you can make your creature Black/White.

This + Nightsky Mimic = win.

Turn 1, Dark Ritual to Nip Gwyllion with this twice. 7/7 lifelink in the first turn. Ouch.

Otherwise, works great with Evershrike as well.

Divinity of Pride+This=d._.b

To be fair, though the stat increase for so low a cost is nice, all it does is make your creature big. It doesn't protect it from dying, or give it a way to destroy your opponents creatures in combat like double strike. Having a big creature never hurts, but there are a thousand and one ways to do that in magic and a limited number of both white and black creatures. It's still good for a white/black heavy deck, but otherwise isn't particularly special for what it does.

Also, you can't enchant Black or White Knights with this! I like it, but man, if I were to play a casual fun deck with little power/toughness-boosting auras, I'd just play Holy or Unholy Strength, depending on the color I'd be playing.

seriously, this is a good card! It can do both holy strength and unholy strength but it can do both on hibrid. it dousn't have any weaknesses compared to them. it just works the same as both of them seperatly or together. If you had a white/black aggro deck with no hybrid creatures and you had some room for holy or unholy strength which would you choose? a strength or this? the answer is obviously this because, like I have previously mentioned, it buffs the same as both of them at the same time.

Edit: It actually does have a downside. You can't holy strength a black creature or unholy strength a white creature with this. still more versitile though.

I play this in an almost entirely {(W/B)} deck and for virtually {1}, one of my creatures gets +3/+3? Pretty sweet!!
Play it with Nightsky Mimic the turn it is able to attack for a good combo!

I love this card! Great on either white or black, and on a black/white creature its a permanent giant growth

This is so going in my White/Black deck. Souls of the Faultless just got a buff!

Well, the reason it's not strictly better than Unholy Strength is that you can only use it on black or white creatures. Unholy Strength can be used in a black/red or black/green deck, for example.
But yea, this card is obviously more usable, and is an integral part of the Evershrike deck, as mentioned.

@FD_02
then it gets pathed on my turn.

this card is still pretty good though, just be careful cuz you'll get 2 for 1'ed fast, lol

Effectively obsoletes both Holy and Unholy Strength in predominantly white/black decks, and confers a big bonus on decks running both. Multi-, off-coloured decks may still want to run one of the discrete Aurae, but this is otherwise generally equivalent and sometimes much better.

Still doesn't have a pentagram. Boooooo.

For the cost this is pretty much a staple in every W/B deck I make.

you ppl are on crack. this card has 1 use and one use only: a white/black card using those awsome creatures and spells that are out there in those 2 colors. in that deck its a 5/5 in any other 3/5 but why would you put it in 1??

@Jokergius:

Thank you, I got rather worried there when I didn't see a single comment about this and divinity of pride. I mean, they were pretty much made for each other!! Name, colors, everything!

Who would have guessed that the Divinity of Pride was from Boston.

Edgewalker is walking on the edge with this thing.

@ AXER:

That's not a combo; that's doing what the card designers told you to do.

Putting Fallen Angel, Grave Pact, and some Reassembling Skeleton cards into play together is a combo.

That is: it's not obvious, meaning that you have to use some amount of creativity of your own, yet it works like crazy.

Putting Priest of Titania and a bunch of other elf cards into play is not a combo. Playing Edge of Divinity on a creature that is black and white is not a combo. Playing a black and white enchantment on Nightsky Mimic, and then attacking with Mimic, is not a combo. Those plays take as much thought or creativity as putting Mountain cards into a deck with Fireball cards. Doing those things is just following steps that have been laid out for you by others.

I am not insinuating that AXER or any other player is unintelligent, stupid, dumb, or bad at Magic. I am explaining the difference between putting together cards that have their combinations literally spelled out for players, on the one hand, and putting together cards that work great together despite the fact that such pairings or combinations are not explicitly and preemptively spelled out on and designed into the cards by the game designers.

While it doesn't take a genius to put Fallen Angel, Grave Pact, and Reassembling Skeleton together, such a combination of cards is not immediately obvious (it takes a liiiitle bit of thinking, at least - beyond simply reading and comprehending the cards); and the combination of the three (or any two of the three) is not made explicit in either the rules texts (and/or the colors) of the cards (e.g. Edge of Divinity/Nightsky Mimic), the 'types' of the cards (e.g. artifacts, or elves and other tribes), or both (e.g. Priest of Titania).

Give To Progenitus!

Works magnificently with Voracious Hatchling.

I'm a big fan of this and beckon apparition. It's the last thing your opponent expects.

Look at that nose in the artwork. The artist is suggesting you put this on a Nip Gwyllion.

@atemu1234
That would not work, you cant enchant something if it has protection.

@humor_love
Reassembling Skeleton is spelled out for you as well. Put in any deck that likes sacrificing. My favorite "hidden" combo is Black Cat, Mimic Vat, and Culling Dais.

Why has no one said anything about Nip Gwyllion, really? Possibly a turn 2 swing for a 7/7 lifelink (two of these).

Hey look! They stapled together Holy strength and Unholy Strength!

@divine_exodus

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entire cycle of both demigods and corresponding auras

So you're telling me that one of my creatures gets a permanent +3/+3 for one mana? Sign me up! I run two of these badboys in my Orzhov deck and they have won me the game more than once. 5/5 for cost compared to effect.

With this and over 25 life, Divinity of Pride is an 11/11 flying lifelink, no less. Not much can stand against a card like this, save for things like Marit Lage.

If you can manage to drop Light From Within, you get a 16/16 flying lifelink. Enough to eviscerate any Eldrazi.

If nothing else, it's a +3/+3 for Zur the Enchanter.

Steel of the Godhead
Helm of the Ghastlord
Fists of the Demigod
Runes of the Deus
Shield of the Oversoul
Edge of the Divinity
Gift of the Deity
Favor of the Overbeing
Clout of the Dominus
Scourge of the Nobilis
You wanna know why this cycle of auras is my favorite EVER?
Let's say we enchant 5-color creature, I don't know, Transguild Courier, with all of these.
Here's what you get.

Transguild Courier {4}

Lifelink, first strike, double strike, trample, indestructible, flying, deathtouch, vigilance, shroud, haste
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, draw a card.
Whenever this creature deals combat damage to an opponent, that player discards a card.
This creature can't be blocked.
All creatures able to block this creature do so.
R/W: This creature gets +1/+0 until end of turn.
24/24

This is good, but lacks the power of some of the other deity enchantments. It's a nice +3/+3 for 1 anyway, though.

Upon discovery, I knew this was a "MUST HAVE" card. +3/+3 on multi-colored creatures at one mana? Great synergy card with a scaling benefit to the mid game where combat scenarios are prominent, or just an early assertion of dominance.

A personal 5/5 for turning my otherwise expended creature's into mediocre powerhouses, again, at one mana.