The combo has been used in Mighty Quin and rarely in Parfait.
Orim's on its own is a great card in decks where you need to force game winning cards past counters.
One cc to bait a counter vs a fearful opponent is a good deal, one cc to force the RIP helm combo is equally nice. You can sometimes disrupt a Storm type combo too.
Sometimes in Parfait or Quin a Chant can mean the opponent does nothing a turn, can't attack etc. Not a bad deal, great vs Sneak attacked Emrakul, but backbreaking if you have a card advantage engine in place like landtax scroll rack drawing 2-3 likely real cards a turn. A Quin deck running some kind of recurring plainscycling Dragon will also benefit off the odd Chant.
So in the right deck the card is good.
The issue is the sceptre...many Parfait decks don't run the Sceptre combo, despite always running four Chants and 4 tutors.
The reason....perpetually chanting does not win you the game against instant decks like Burn or UR delver. It won't cut much mustard against the Abrupt decay decks either, Bug. Junk/d, so its a sometimes game winning combo that is awkward to set up that leaves you open to card disadvantage.
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Every time I look at Orim's Chant/Silence/Gilded Light and Isochron Scepter, I wonder why it isn't a deck. Why isn't it a deck? I'm sure with Sculpting Steel and some tutors, it could be a serious control contender!
Orim's on its own is a great card in decks where you need to force game winning cards past counters.
One cc to bait a counter vs a fearful opponent is a good deal, one cc to force the RIP helm combo is equally nice. You can sometimes disrupt a Storm type combo too.
Sometimes in Parfait or Quin a Chant can mean the opponent does nothing a turn, can't attack etc. Not a bad deal, great vs Sneak attacked Emrakul, but backbreaking if you have a card advantage engine in place like landtax scroll rack drawing 2-3 likely real cards a turn. A Quin deck running some kind of recurring plainscycling Dragon will also benefit off the odd Chant.
So in the right deck the card is good.
The issue is the sceptre...many Parfait decks don't run the Sceptre combo, despite always running four Chants and 4 tutors.
The reason....perpetually chanting does not win you the game against instant decks like Burn or UR delver. It won't cut much mustard against the Abrupt decay decks either, Bug. Junk/d, so its a sometimes game winning combo that is awkward to set up that leaves you open to card disadvantage.
Argivian Find provides some resilience to disenchants