Tragic poor pretender design is limiting MA Van!!!

[Baalz]

Oh no, that would introduce a decent amount of unnecessary complication and I think you're attacking the wrong thing based on your premise. If your point is that Vans are too powerful and it needs to be more expensive to use them effectively (a point I'm neither conceding nor contending) a far easier change is to increase the resource or gold requirements for Vans rather than revamp the whole sacred recruiting logic. Dominion, particularly if you have a high dominion pretender is trivially cheap to raise from 3 to 6 while you only get 15% more resources for 40 design points and gold is always scarce.