Magic Scale

[Alneyan]

Theorically, a nation with easy access to Death and/or Fire (especially Death since its research boosting artefact comes earlier) might get away with some Drain. A Rainbow Mage would help as well, since Drain would be almost irrelevant for her.

In actual practice, I would be hard put to find a situation where 40 points (or even 80) would be good enough to justify the trouble of taking Drain. Perhaps with a special game where you have fewer than 500 points, but that would be an experimental situation, so.

[The Panther]

I like the idea of the drain scale affecting summoned creatures. Say, something like loss of 25% HP, and maybe 2 attack and 2 defense and 2 strength per drain level It might actually make a drain scale worth getting!

Probably not, though, since it would affect the owning nation too.