Re: or maybe....
Actually USING Thetis Blessing (normal, the proposed reverse version, or the proposed 2-way version) makes you horribly vulnerable to having it dispelled, because whole armies of units (and possibly SCs too) drown/suffocate.
So that alone isn't going to solve the problems of water nations unable to compete on land (of which we seem to agree MA Oceania is the biggest example), especially given the high research requirement, and the fact that being a water nation doesn't necessarily give you tons of water gems to protect it from dispel.
A weaker cave drake that you could summon in your secure underwater labs and *then* take up on land would be a useful alternative to ice drakes that you need to capture a land lab (and put your mages in it) *before* summoning, and even then they're largely useless against a variety of cold-resistant races and units. (If it's weaker than a cave drake presumably it would also be cheaper.) Amphibious sea serpents would have the same benefit - the summoners can stay in the safety of the water, while someone else leads the beasts onto land, and unlike much of your battle magic, they don't rely on cold to be effective.
Since most maps are mostly land, a nation that is severely disadvantaged on land is doomed, even if they have a secure powerbase in the water. (If their land disadvantage is that bad, any non-coastal province is equally secure against them.)
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