[Zapmeister]

Learn to live with it and don't get too attached to your god. It's just one of the pawns to get global supremacy, any way

Although this may be good advice, it's something I've never been comfortable with. I mean, the premise of the game is that the whole war is about promoting your pretender to godhood.

If that pretender is killed, reducing its magic power, then the player may decide it's not worth resurrecting. Or maybe it gets so afflicted that it has to wait out the game in a Home for the Hopelessly Crippled. Psychologically, for me, that's game over.

It's this perspective that prompted me a while back to argue for pretender exemption from Magic Duel since, the way it is, giving your pretender mid-range astral magic is suicidal. I received no support, suggesting that others simply don't see the pretender the same way I do.