phenix pyre

[RonD]

You are thinking of soul vortex. Soul drain is quite another beast - a battlefield-wide enchantment. It also requires an uncommon path combination (3S3D).

[Shangrila00]

Hmm, does any SC chassis have access to that path combination besides Pretenders?

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally Posted by Shangrila00

Hmm, does any SC chassis have access to that path combination besides Pretenders?

I once got a Tartarian Titan (male) with fire, astral, and death... But that's one Tartarian out of many games.

For all practical purposes, to get a Phoenix Pyre/Soul Drain killer commander you need either to design your pretender to be capable of it or to take up empowering big time.

It is really a niche use, even in CBM, which made Soul Drain considerably easier to cast.

And without some sort of native reinvigoration, it can easily be countered by deploying only lifeless units.

But when you have an immortal pretender with multiple strong magic paths defending his own dominion against the invading forces of the three other remaining nations in the game, it can be a game changer if you hold it in reserve while forcing your enemies to concentrate their forces and then spring it as a surprise.

[Soyweiser]

Originally Posted by RonD

You are thinking of soul vortex. Soul drain is quite another beast - a battlefield-wide enchantment. It also requires an uncommon path combination (3S3D).

Doh. Thanks!

On the path requirements. If the sc has astral, you can probably reverse commune the phoenix pyre onto it. Just give the fire mage a matrix. (as you want earth+astral access in the endgame anyway).