First of all, I thought we were adding 8hours to the hosting cycle? (these hours did not appear).
Secondly, was this the week atul was taking off or was that next week?
Finally in the battle replay I watched: the adon which did not have a bonus reinvigoration item was the only adon to die period, and additionally in that battle replay he died for real... In the battle replay he gained the affliction weakened... however on my turn he is alive with the affliction never healing wound... seems as if my battle replay was bugged.
Although all of my raise dead spammers still died, ruining any chance I had of staying alive (they were intended for use against c'tis as you apparently correctly predicted).
Good work
In order for a unit with phx pyre to "die" he must have 100fatigue or higher when he "dies" if you want to learn how this works just create a test game in which you use the phoenix pretender in cbm as it automatically has phx pyre in effect at all times.