What happens if you...

[Tuidjy]

The problem is pulling the Twiceborn trick without getting a handful of
afflictions. Of course, if you have the Challice or Gift of Health, it's
all good.

[NTJedi]

During an SP game you may consider actually using Transformation so you receive a living pretender commander again which can cast twiceborn again. Thus your pretender is a healthy living commander with the Wight Mage as a backup.

Unfortunately Transformation is high on the research scale with several risks... so it's not feasible for a multiplayer pretender.

[Juzza]

And doesn't transformation kinda not work on pretenders?

[Zeldor]

And there won't be any magic path loss and so on?

[NTJedi]

Juzza said:
And doesn't transformation kinda not work on pretenders?

I'm pretty sure it works on pretenders, the same as twiceborn.

Zeldor said:
And there won't be any magic path loss and so on?

It's possible the transformation can cause feeblemind or death. These are rare... at least from the testing I've done. Any successful transformation will have zero loss of magic paths.

[Sawyer]

It's possible the transformation can cause feeblemind or death. These are rare... at least from the testing I've done. Any successful transformation will have zero loss of magic paths.

Oh doctor, thank you so much!

[NTJedi]

Sawyer said:
Oh doctor, thank you so much!

You're welcome

[Loren]

Zeldor said:
And there won't be any magic path loss and so on?

The time I did it to the AI's pretender there was path loss.

[NTJedi]

Loren said:
The time I did it to the AI's pretender there was path loss.

Are you saying... you casted Transformation and then turned the nation to AI?
The transformation can kill and thus result in lost magic paths.

[Loren]

NTJedi said:

Are you saying... you casted Transformation and then turned the nation to AI?
The transformation can kill and thus result in lost magic paths.

No, I'm saying when I fought the AI pretender with twiceborn he came back the next turn with path loss.