[Shovah32]

Rlyeh and shinuyama are both pretty good due to their strong magical powers and good ranged armies(mind blasters and cheap flaming arrows respectively) and i would rate them among the top. My third choice is a little harder but i would probably go with Ctis.

Ctis has good death and nature access aswell as some water and astral(or good astral with couatl). They have fairly good general purpose troops(heavy infantry and elite warriors), great skele spam capability, poison slingers who work great with skele spam, good national summons, strong priests, great assasins and a very good dominion(40 free points from heat, income bonus for themselves, income penalty for others, disease for living, non cold-blooded troops).

For a miamasa pretender a Dom9(10 is too expensive) Prince of death works great. His death magic fits in with the national magic, the national mages can forge a variety of useful items, the PoD is a great early game expander, raider and late game SC and is also immune to the disease dominion(which spreads quickly with dom9).