[Micah]

Who would volunteer to actually CAST Burden or anything else similarly nasty though? Sure you can find 15 nations to kick in some gems for it, but I sure as heck wouldn't want to be the one to put a bullseye on my forehead by actually casting it, since nations 1-14 get the benefit from it as long as nation 15 can manage to keep a single mage alive...so basically until his entire nation gets destroyed by his PO'd neighbors.

AC is going to be inevitable, I think, because of the amount of blood nations. It might not always be up, but I think it'll reappear even if it gets taken down...If a blood nation is up against the wall getting some slave donations to cast it will probably be easy, and if they already look like they're going to be taken out casting it and holding out for 10 turns or so seems like a real possibility. Looming Hell less so, but I think it'll end up going up and staying up since it's not a large enough AoE for it to be a dispel target. That's 2 of the 5 slots gone.

Blood overall will be weakened a bit since the SCs will get spread out all over the place though, although the same goes for the royalty...