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I was going to save this discussion for my guide to the nation. Yet, if your going to bring up a sore subject, I might as well chime in.

I believe the reason the Magister Arcana is priced that way is because he has drain tolerance. It's the only explanation I can develop. That said I feel that it's unfair for the player to pay for that ability in gold cost as it has already been paid at nation selection. Each nation has advantages and disadvantages. When you choose a nation you, in theory, pay for any advantages with some disadvantages. The advantage of drain tolerant units was paid for with a lack of recruitable thugs, the lack of any national unit template, the lack of high magic skills, and severely hindered site searching ability just to name a few.

Drain tolerance should be a national advantage tagged to all casters of Man at no cost. It should be a given as it is a national advantage that is suppose to make up for the laundry list of things they don't have.