[Graeme Dice]

Originally posted by rabelais:
[QB]Um... this is my point. DE are already tough targets, they don't need Drain Life to be balanced.

I take it you've never played against a competent C'Tis player then, since sauromancers are far more common, and much, much cheaper than dusk elders. A sauromancer that can cast drain life costs 180 gold and 10 death gems. A dusk elder to do the same is 30 death gems. You can produce three times as many death 4 sauromancers as death 4 dusk elders for the same cost.