Sacrifice

School of Fire Magic
Level 1
Bloodlust
Curse
Magic Arrow *
Protection from Fire
Level 2
Blind
Fire Wall
Visions *
Level 3
Fireball
Land Mine
Misfortune
Level 4
Armageddon
Berserk
Fire Shield
Frenzy
Inferno
Slayer
Level 5
Sacrifice
Summon Fire Elemental
School of Air Magic
School of Earth Magic
School of Water Magic

Sacrifice
	School:	Fire Magic
	Level:	5th
	Cost:	25/20
	Duration:	permanent
Basic Effect
Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target dead troop has ((power + destroyed troop's base health + 3) x # of creatures sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.
Advanced Effect
Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target dead troop has ((power + destroyed troop's base health + 6) x # of creatures sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.
Expert Effect
Target, non-undead troop is sacrificed (destroyed). Then another target dead troop has ((power + destroyed troop's base health + 10) x # of creatures sacrificed) in health total of creatures returned to life.
Probability of occurrence (%):
Castle		0
Rampart		0
Tower		0 (0*)
Inferno		20
Necropolis		16
Dungeon		12
Stronghold		0
Fortress		0
Conflux		0
Cove		0
Factory		0
Bulwark
* Without Library

The spell destroys (sacrifices) the target living troop in order to resurrect creatures of another stack back to life. The other stack must be receptive to the Resurrection spell. A sacrificed stack leaves an empty hex on the battlefield without anything to be resurrected or summoned as Demons, i.e. without leaving a corpse for any uses.

Creatures immune to Sacrifice (or resurrection via Sacrifice):

• Undead
• Golems
• Elementals
• Mechanicals
•   Stone and Obsidian Gargoyles
•  Gold Dragon ^{*can be sacrificed but not resurrected} NOTE: In HotA , Gold Dragons can be resurrected with Sacrifice as both parts of the spell are now considered level 5.

•  Magic Elementals 

•  Black Dragons
•   Efreet and Efreet Sultans

•   Fire and Energy Elementals
•  Firebirds and  Phoenixes 

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Typically, it is better to sacrifice a troop with a greater number of creatures than a troop with the same total health but fewer units.

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Optimize sacrifice with resurrection spell.

Power															Notes
Health	1	1000	4	200	4	300	10	250	15	250	25	300	30	250
	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed
1	210	2/1050	53	3/422	53	2/422
7	510	6/5610	100	...	100

(*)NOTE: All hit point restored is calculated based on:

• Expert proficiency in earth
• Basic proficiency in fire
• For Dragon, hero has Orb of Vulnerability
• Equation of resurrection spell: healed = 160 + power x 50
• Equation of sacrifice spell healed = n x power + ( n - 1 ) x health + current_health + n x 3

Optimize sacrifice with Archangel and clone spell.

Number															Notes
Health	1	1000	4	200	4	300	10	300	20	250	30	300	35	300
	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed	max	n/healed
2	200	1/1000

(*)NOTE: All hit point restored is calculated based on:

• Expert proficiency in water (archangel can be cloned)
• Basic proficiency in fire
• For Dragon, hero has Orb of Vulnerability
• Equation of archangel capacity: healed = number x 100
• Equation of sacrifice spell healed = n x power + ( n - 1 ) x health + current_health + n x 3
• (example) With 2 Archangel and 200 Peasant, Hero can resurrect 1 Azure Dragon.