[Amhazair]

Yeah, was intresting to see it play out, and looking in from the outside it seemed to work at first, (with a quick increase in gem income after casting it, and your mages netherbolting Patala to death) before flatlining, I assume from not being able to expend your dominion into new territory. Heavy dominion is very expensive with regular rainbows too, so I assume you're right about the blood-sac being mandotory. (Never having thought about an early SoAP ploy before seeing you try it.)

Edit: In response to WL: Wouldn't playing a blood-saccing nation allow you to more or less control where you push your dominion and where not, thus keeping your dominion mostly confined to your own borders if you wanted to? (Particularly with middling base dominion.)

Edited again: Has Don_Pablo been completely elliminated, or just gone AI with his last remnants? (For accurate OP bookkeeping.)