You’ve been so busy focusing on the offense. When you need to go full defensive, you’ll figure it out quickly. Countering another Theurge’s work is hard, especially when it’s on something as close as their own garb.
Well, depending on your choices, you may have already invested in the approach that has inspired the most martyrs in our world’s history.
Indeed. The telos of a decoy – something made to deceive – would be more noticeable to them than the blur of whatever life you packed into it. And if they’re close enough, the greater complexity of human telos vis-a-vis animal telos (let alone plant telos) would be visible. (This is also a problem with traps, to varying degrees).
Not til Game 3 or 4, alas, when it’ll require a small mountain dropped in the right place.