Life Drain
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Level: 2
Cost: 3 mana
[edit] Description
Life Drain Steals hit points from all Life and Nature creatures in battle and gives some of them to the caster as healing.
[edit] Comments
An unusual spell, Life Drain fills two roles not otherwise found in Death's arsenal: area-damage, and healing.
As an attack spell, the damage is not usually sufficient to affect any but the smallest battles. Death is usually much better served focusing on it's debuffs: Unholy Song is a much better choice against Life units, and, with the exception of Elementals, Nature units are susceptible to all of your other curses, leaving you many superior options against them as well.
That having been said, while the limited choice of target alignments means that you cannot afford to rely on it as anything but a serendipitous source of healing, it may occasionally be useful.
