Yomi Pretender design and general MP Strategy ?

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Master lich is nice.

4-5 death on him would keep you from having to raise your DaiOni's death skill to cast darkness. New patch fixed darkness (afaik) so it doesn't affect the oni, so it is a good spell to keep in mind. The Lich is a possibility for enetering water as well.

Also keep in mind, Yomi doesn't get sacred troops so don't bother going too high in any one path of magic.
You get a lot of death 2+ casters, and oni spirits are undead, so shadow blast is nice, albiet expensive to use.

Massing cheap bakemono archers early on usually works, then switch to oni once you have the economy to support it.

Earth magic would be a good pick for pretender too. If you go air as well, you will be able to get a contact kohonus tengu or even a dai tengu. The Dai Tengu is nice because he can cast arrow fend for your low protection Oni.

Dai Oni make decent SCs if you can replace their high encumberance armor. Something with low encumberance will be fine because they can cast invunerability on themselves. give them the elixer of life and smile when your enemies have to kill them 3 times over.