[Baalz]

Well, one thing that you've got to realize about is a lot of Dominions design decisions seem to have been made for thematic/coolness reasons rather than balance. There are certainly many things in there that are not necessarily the most cost effective way to do things but can still be fun anyway because they make you play a different way, or just for role playing reasons. That being said, pretty much any of the large size pretenders with good hit points can make pretty good SCs if you design them with that in mind. For instance, with a little research depending on your magic paths you can cast invulnerability, personal luck, body ethereal, personal regeneration, quicken self, breath of winter, mistform, fire shield, etc. You can also get awe on any pretender by taking a high enough dominion score, and if you're in your own high dominion one of those titan pretenders will have several hundred hit points so if you stick a couple decent magic items on them they can be quite formidable. Additionally, a lot of them have little "flavor" (such as creating magic gems or preventing bad events) and some of them can be quite useful such as curing afflictions.