[Ironhawk]

Vedalken - yeah W9 looks like a good idea on paper. But the speed increase is marginal (from 7 to 10) and the extra attacks from quickness only really helps when your hydra has 1-2 heads left.

I did notice tho that Serpent Priests (the main la pyth mage) do get an astral random, so thats pretty sweet actually. Since they are custom made to bless your hydras in the first place, now they can also etherealize them.

No, heretics really are useless. You say they are good for dominion cleanup - but there are plenty of other things that are better. Temples. Prophets. Cheap indy priests that dont kill your dominion. The "value" of heretics is supposedly magical versatility, but honestly I'm not seeing it yet. You get a 1/20 blood pick and an uncommon F2 at the price of magnifying your bad dominion. How can you justify this?