returning spell

[Shangrila00]

The point is returning works when you take your first hit. For human hp units, the first hit is often the last, making returning useless. Unless you have mistform, in which case any single attack will always do at most 1 damage. Magical attacks will pop the mistform, but that doesn't matter when you just need to survive one hit.

That said, that's way too much trouble. Just put Soul Contracts on indy scouts, and if they die, they die. It's very unlikely to happen until the late game anyway.