[chrispedersen]

Mil,

I agree with you generally. I love to play "pocket dominion" its one of the fun things about mictlan, arco, and a few other nations. I did this strategy very effectively in NAV.

You get no benefit in neutral dominion either.

However, you don't need to have triple blessed lanka in order to rock with lanka.
I do consider drain with lanka, just to increase the mr vs banish.

You'd have a hard time convincing me that an awake pretender is worth more than a higher dominion score and better scales.

Essentially your power curve is number of sacreds you can pump out times the power of those sacreds. In terms of point buys, going to a Dom9 is always cheaper than going to magic path 9.