I have seen a lot of people using Imposing Sovereign in their decks, but not so many using Blind Obedience. I am not sure why this is except that the sovereign is a creature and can chump block or do small amounts of damage. However, it seems to me that the Sovereign is much easier to remove and the real reason for playing her is her effect, which brings me to Blind Obedience.
Obedience has the same effect as the sovereign, except it also taps artifacts, which in general is very useful (against developing angel post and cauldron decks among other things), but also gives you the extort option. In addition to all of this it is an enchantment and a pain to remove.
So...am I missing something here?
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tis not really that imposing sovereign is better than blind obedience..sometimes, tis just a matter of what the deck needs..aggro decks would lean more towards imposing..then control decks would lean more towards blind ob..
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they are used very differently in decks.
Imposing Sovereign is more for stopping your opponent's blockers. You play Imposing Sovereign to stop your opponent from slapping down something like Boros Reckoner and stopping you from attacking. At the same time it's a 2/1 for 1W, which isn't bad. These decks are aggressive, and rather curve out with creatures or lay down multiple creatures than drain your opponent for 1 life for one mana.
Blind obedience is for control. It's for slowing down haste creatures. In more control type decks, you are more likely to have the extra mana to drain from the extort and the life gain is relevant to you stabilizing. Also you tend to run creature sweepers, which kills sovereign but leaves the obedience standing.
imposing sovereign hasn't been that good in my testing. Most of the time you don't want to swing with him except maybe once. Blind obedience will give you the same effect on a more durable permanent, do about the same amount of damage, and gain you life. The only thing sovereign does that BO doesn't is chump block.
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Blind Obedience is an extort source with upside. Imposing Sovereign prevents blockers with the more significant upside of being a creature that beats down. They may look similar, but they are very different cards for two different types of decks.
imposing sovereign hasn't been that good in my testing. Most of the time you don't want to swing with him except maybe once. Blind obedience will give you the same effect on a more durable permanent, do about the same amount of damage, and gain you life. The only thing sovereign does that BO doesn't is chump block.
I think its just that sovereign fits into builds that obedience doesn't. A 2cmc enchant with extort would be terrible in a WW or UW humans or whatever.
The biggest problems that I see with Sovereign are that you can't Burning-Tree into it, and it fights for the same basic slot Thalia wants to occupy (i.e. as a disruptive 1W 2/1). That's not to say that it isn't useful or that it can't be good, but it's not as amazing as one might think, especially on the draw.
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Obedience has the same effect as the sovereign, except it also taps artifacts, which in general is very useful (against developing angel post and cauldron decks among other things), but also gives you the extort option. In addition to all of this it is an enchantment and a pain to remove.
So...am I missing something here?
Imposing Sovereign is more for stopping your opponent's blockers. You play Imposing Sovereign to stop your opponent from slapping down something like Boros Reckoner and stopping you from attacking. At the same time it's a 2/1 for 1W, which isn't bad. These decks are aggressive, and rather curve out with creatures or lay down multiple creatures than drain your opponent for 1 life for one mana.
Blind obedience is for control. It's for slowing down haste creatures. In more control type decks, you are more likely to have the extra mana to drain from the extort and the life gain is relevant to you stabilizing. Also you tend to run creature sweepers, which kills sovereign but leaves the obedience standing.
This.
Basically it's a human that triggers Champion and can still swing for more damage.
If you are playing white weenie, then use Sovereign. If you are playing control that wants a trigger like this, then use Blind Obediance.
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It also pumps Champion of the Parish which has become a pretty popular card of late.