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Although I am not a competetitive or very good player, I like S&A a lot (and won at least a couple of small relaxed MPs with them), and maybe this might help:

1. There are tons of reingiv items out there, just tons. Your CMs wont need expensive Boots of Quickness since they will cast it anyhow, so give them cheapo Boots o' the Messenger, which is easy. My personal fav is Rainbow Armor, but this may be hard to get in MP (because it will be hard to get Forge O Ancients up). Getting FoA up will, however, not be hard with an earth pretender. I get 4 earth, that is usually enough for me.

2. My feeling is that S&A has the best searchers in the game. I rely on them to get the sites going. Acashic is great, but expensive, and I want those gems for Starshine Skullcaps. Maybe save some more points, spend it on luck and maybe growth for the extra bit of cash and magic, and just search a lot?

An earth 10 may be fun, but is it worth it in a competetive environment?