It wasn't the SoD that made the bad draws. It was the other life cards. It took too many cards to retain high health, and do enough damage to actually win a match. I tried making a 30 card one as well, both with flying staffs and heal/Frog. Too slow, you either didn't get enough healing or didn't do enough damage with the latter deck. With the former the draws were terrible because you needed animate+Staff+adrenaline (Adrenaline was used to to heal more other wise I didn't have enough healing..)