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Manasseh can win a battle without enhancements, but he has to either discard 2 ECs or band to someone else to do it.  KoT often wins battles without enhancements all by himself.
Raw Power = KoT

Manasseh is critical to a brown defense (and gets awesome protection from his fort) with access to Haman's Plot.  He also is critical to a Magician defense (and can hold Magic Charms).  KoT is critical to a gold defense (so someone can block after Journey to Egypt).  Brown and Magicians combined are definitely more powerful than evil gold.
Natural Brigade = Manasseh

If your going to splash a brown EC with HP into other decks, Gomer or Uzzah are both better.  If your going to splash a magician with Magic Charms into other decks, there are also probably better options depending on your main brigade.  However, KoT is the definition of splash and goes into just about any deck.
Splashability = KoT

Manasseh gives the choice to autoblock in a way that almost no one is protected from, or to do a banding chain, or to block solo and have init to play some great enhs (HP, FH, etc.)  KoT always does the same thing by canceling everything and being huge.
Versatility = Manasseh

KoT is one of the most expensive cards in the game and if you have one you could trade for Manasseh and a bunch of other stuff.
Trade Value Tiebreaker = KoT

Winner = KoT

6/6 is good init?

With all his "accessories" (Gates, Charms, 2k Horses), Manasseh is clearly better. But you still need to draw all that stuff...KoT can do it on his own and also has a few CBN options as well (Evil Spirit, Wonders Forgotten).

6/6 is good init?

No, not normally.  But it could give init if you were attacked by someone larger than that.  And so it still gives another option for Manasseh, thus versatility

I really don't know why I'm posting, since everybody knows I voted Manny. KoT beat SWS unjustly. Manny will beat KoT. More justly than how SWS was beaten.

Actually, the KoT that beat SWS was Orange. He got beat by Wandering Spirit. SWS has been avenged.

KoT is eliminated by another TLA: CBP