Well I do have to say, as aristocrat, he is darn powerful in several ways… he’s royal blood, he’s “confirmable” to BD etc… Even as is I’ll fully admit, if I can find a noble as MM… While the noble may be only as strong as his bd counterpart… in the wrong hands those powers value is soo much greater. Once you know you have noble blood, you know there’s great benefits to killing the king. While you have the vote… your goal for majority is one less.
I remember winning one of my worse games ever (total crap luck, assasain caught day 2, 2 failed conversions in a row. But the possesor killed the king, and I paid close attention to the election to find a noble and princess (neither claimed on the election, and they drew). So I imidiately refocused my target to one of them… he managed to talk his way up to king the next day, and that was more or less enough to pull the unseen out of the jaws of certain defeat.