Single player question/

[NTJedi]

Saxon said:
Do you ever pick up dropped magic items when you kill in the dath match? If you have a strong SC, you might be able to pick up a slew of items.

It's never good to send any commanders or mages into the death match unless the game only has 2 or 3 opponents. In a SP game with multiple nations most AI opponents can be expected to send its prophet or pretender where the final battle usually has two large AI pretenders fighting to the death. Currently the death match prize is just not worth sending anyone.
The death match should have a gem and/or gold prize increasing in value based on the number of nations attending and a cumulative increase based on the current game turn. This would make it worthwhile for human opponents to desire to win the death match challenge.