[HoneyBadger]

You know, the thing about Wishing for a Pretender is that you're not actually wishing for a *Pretender*, you're just wishing for a chassis. So, wishing for, say, a Void Lurker, will get you a Void Dweller sans hardly any magical paths, even though it's supposed to be one of the most powerful magical beings. You're cheated if you wish for a magically powerful, physically weak being, because you don't get more than a drop of their potential.

It would be better-and a good use of high-level magic-if you could wish for a sortof "sidekick" Pretender. The spell could cost a certain amount of astral gems-say 250-just to get running, and then after that, each additional astral gem you spend gives you a point to spend on the new Pretender, fully decked out with magic paths. You'd have to pay the price for whichever chassis you chose, and after that, you could spend on magic paths and dominion.
Scales wouldn't be changeable with this spell.

I wouldn't think it would be difficult to code, since you'd just be tying the spell into the Pretender creation program. The new Pretender wouldn't grant Blessing effects though, unless you spent more gems on the new one than you spent points on the old one (something around 1250?).

The more powerful of the two (or three or whatever) Pretenders would be the one to grant blessings to sacred units.

This sort of set-up would have a lot of thematic interest, because you could potentially build whole pantheons, you could replace an old god with an up-and-comer, and you'd see your nation's religion evolve over time as you added new gods into the Pantheon. The power of Wish would be curtailed a bit, without being modified, since you probably wouldn't use it to summon the few SC Pretender chassis, even though you could.