I recently played a game of Mage Wars with freeze conditions. It was a really fun game and I was really able to stack the damage because I was casting Beam and Cone of Frost with both my Siren and Naya.

I was not quite sure when they got removed though. Here’s what the Elementalist rulebook said for Freeze:

A creature with Freeze conditions rolls 1 less die on non-spell attacks. At the end of a creature’s activation, remove 1 Freeze condition from them, if possible. Each Freeze condition on a living creature is also considered 2 damage that cannot be healed. If there are ever Freeze conditions on an object with Burn conditions, remove 1 of each. Repeat this process until there are only Freeze or Burn markers remaining. This is a frost condition and has a removal cost of 2. In Arena, Freeze also grants the Lumbering trait to the affected creature.

So from this I know a Freeze condition is removed after a creature’s activation, assuming they don’t have a Deep Freeze on them. However I also noticed that on the Freeze tokens themselves it says:

Freeze: Remove 1 each reset phase (with a 2 in parentheses). So does that mean that in addition to the Freeze that is removed after a creature’s activation is over, there is an additional Freeze that can be removed by the person that controls the creature by paying 2 mana in the reset phase? Please let me know if I understand that correctly or not, thanks.

I am pretty new to Mage Wars so please keep that in mind. It seems like many builds I see shy away from ranged creatures.  Is that because it is too easy to close the gap on ranged creatures? And if so, could a build with range and cards like Tanglevine, Quicksand, Force Push, etc be viable to keep the distance between archers and the targets? I really like the Warlord and know he is not one of the stronger mages outside of Dominiaton, but I was just curious about this. Any feedback is appreciated as well as any hurdles to this sort of strategy.

I will be going to Gen Con but unable to play in the tournament.  I was wondering if there are any other players that would be interested in meeting up to do some casual games.  I am pretty new to the game and have only played a few times but am interested in playing more and learning about the game.  If anyone is interested let me know!