Involuntary Shape Shifting and Items...?

[NTJedi]

Agrajag said:
Weak little mages? No.
Very expensive (and very weak) priests? Yes.
Propehts? Yes.
Combat-Useless pretenders (like the Great Mother)? Yes.
Also, if you saw an AI enter his pretender into the deathmatch, you can easily slay it in the next deathmatch by preparing the proper counter. (especially since the AI tends to send his pretenders with almost no magical items and "badly scripted")

Why even risk the life of a good commander when it will probably be killed by one of the other AIs ? Whatever you send into the deathmatch will most likely have little or no effect during early game because of the pretenders and prophets sent by the AI.