[Baalz]

I'd like to underline something which was briefly mentioned - battlefield summons can be fabulous counters to communions depending on how the communion is being used. Nothing is more frustrating than having all the good targets out of range but burning out all your communion slaves trying to squish giant ants or dragonflies or longdead. Bonus points if you can use a summon immune to whatever the communion likes to use (fire elementals vs falling fires, etc). Particularly useful is spells which summon units to the edge of the battle field like howl or willow wisp as they'll not only have a good chance of missing the sparsely spaced guys, they'll also have a good chance of inflicting friendly fire damage as their own guys run towards them. Elementals make a pretty good choice vs gifts from heaven because they have several forms so they each have to be hit several times regardless of the damage (I think). Air elementals should work particularly well as the gifts from heaven will cause hideous friendly damage.