One of your homeland's allies, an ally that your people have a vested interest in, is having a very horrible dispute with a neighboring nation. As is the norm when this sort of thing happens, those two countries each pit one of their best mages into the arena. However, in this particular circumstance, your people have pledged to aid their ally by sending one of their own mages to help in the coming battle. That mage is you.
Each team has two Mages: an Ambassador Mage and a Native Mage. A team wins by killing the opposing team's Native Mage, but the Ambassador's life is expendable.
-Ally Mages start the game in the same corner.
-4x3 zone arena.
So what do you think? I haven't had the chance to test it yet.