Involuntary Shape Shifting and Items...?

[NTJedi]

Agrajag said:
Weak little mages? No.
Very expensive (and very weak) priests? Yes.
Propehts? Yes.
Combat-Useless pretenders (like the Great Mother)? Yes.
Also, if you saw an AI enter his pretender into the deathmatch, you can easily slay it in the next deathmatch by preparing the proper counter. (especially since the AI tends to send his pretenders with almost no magical items and "badly scripted")

Why even risk the life of a good commander when it will probably be killed by one of the other AIs ? Whatever you send into the deathmatch will most likely have little or no effect during early game because of the pretenders and prophets sent by the AI.

[Chazar]

I still like to send an arena champion in MP, since it is just a lot of fun!

In addition to the trident, a couple of gems or some gold would be nice as well though (e.g. a prize of ((x/2)+10) gems of a random sort would seem apropriate to me, where x is the number of turns played, i.e. 15 gems at tun 10, 20 gems at turn 20 and 35 gems at turn 50).

The trident is not much of a problem, if one may get rid of it just by shapeshifting, hehe...