Looking for help with SC pretenders

[Cainehill]

Yossar said:
Carrion Dragon is really good because of recuperation and sleep vines but suffers late game (like all dragons) from a lack of equipment slots.

No it doesn't. Unlike the elemental dragons, the CD is still pretty beefy in its humanish form - 53 base hit points or so, and full equipment slots. The only real weakness is a relatively low attack / defense in carrion lord form. Helping to make up for that is the 6 carrion sleep vine attacks in addition to whatever weapon is equipped. In dragon form, it has much higher offense, and great HPs - base 200, easily getting close to 500 in favorable dominion.