[thejeff]

Bless is a playstyle decision. If you're going with an double bless strategy, you're not using your pretender for other things, at least early on. Those high paths can come in useful in the late game, so keep that in mind during design, but focus on the bless, dominion and scales enough to build your sacreds. He's going to be imprisoned anyway.

Both are good ways to play, but trying to do both is likely to get the worst parts of each.