[Kobal2]

Yeah, Burden of Time probably needs to go too. It's less powerful in the EA but it's still basically a you-lose button to all the human nations (esp. considering few of them are big Astral players)

@Ragnar: Well, they are really powerful anyway, but in a no diplo game the rest of the world pooling their pearls to counter them is a no-go. Which essentially means the rest of the world would rely on the usual Astral suspects (Kailasa, R'Lyeh...) to dispel them, who may or may not be around at that point. Besides, they can't be expected to dispel the broken globals thrown around by 16 other nations on their own.

This would be even more true of Astral Corruption, since that spell relies on slaves which are and will always be more plentiful than pearls in a 1-on-1 context.