Well, at best I guess it is a situational spell. It's a shame because it does the greatest damage. I had a battle with a "impossible" opponent which had a stack of 4 Black Dragons and 5 Black Dragons which I wiped out with one Kamikaze (Black Dragons which are Immune to magic.) Situational though, because when you hover you cursor over an opponent after selecting a spell, the pop-up box shows exactly how much damage and units you will kill. If I am able to kill a unit with 1 Fire Rain spell, I will cast kamikaze before doing so. In my example, I cast Kamikaze on Thorns which was in the cell right next to the dragons. Then I cast Fire Rain, watched it die, watched it explode, watched 2 adjacent stacks of Black Dragons die.
The reason I don't like to use Phantom is because it's a spell, and therefore a waste of a cast. Summoning may be an option, but I can only summon plants which are slow as hell. I've used the necromancer to raise units from the dead and cast kamikaze then, which seems ok, but again too random - and besides, I ideally want to do the damage before they move, not after I've killed some units.
Griffins still seem like a good option, but splitting a stack of 100 griffins makes 2 stacks of 50. You cannot just pull one griffin out of the stack to be your suicide squad. Like the OP says, you need to bring a stack of like 2 griffins which is too much hassle. Zhuangzi, like you said, it's just more staightforward to use Fire Rain and I will only use Kamikaze when the situation deems it and will give up on creating some strategy to force its use.
By the way, I hate Bone Dragons, but Green Dragons are awesome IMO. Since they do melee damage, have high init, high speed, good amount of hit points, mana leech, 2-cell attack, they are my dragon killers. Red and Black are kinda useless when fighting demons and their fire resists, but green dragons still have their uses.
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