With all your talk about the earth elemental, I really really want to fight an opponent with that opening and see how it goes. 

Hahahaha. Let me know how it goes. 

Btw, I really like the construct of Tyrnan. Very elegant. I'm just a tad worried that the defense for Grimson comes a bit too late.

I have not found a great strategy for the 4 EE opening other than completely engineering my spellbook for it or do the same thing. I'm looking for an allround spellbook in the spirit of a warlord (soldier based) that can do the job and can also withstand other mages.

Problem is also that the Earth Elementals hinder your movement, so you become slow yourself. If you have multiple soldiers, you need to spread out when an EE is coming, because you cannot move them out of a zone all at once. And spread out soldiers is not good for a Warlord and his battle orders. With 7 dice including daze and stun, those poor soldiers are gonna die fast. Even worse: The EE zone attack in a zone with 3 or more  of soldiers in it and getting a few slams... While that is happening, the next EE is only 1 zone away and another one 2 zones beyond that. Or even worse: you have to flee into their direction.

Also, you really want to prevent that Grimson becomes hindered in his next turn, because then he can only move 1 zone and therefore cannot attack again if being followed. I'm experimenting with Mongoose Agility and Slaknir, who makes all Goblin Soldiers elusive. But this all takes too much time while the other mage is casting his 3rd and 4th EE. It just doesn't feel right yet.

Killing the EE is not a good plan. But ignoring them is also very difficult. I find myself still dealing with avoiding the EE swarm while the other mage is preparing his real force. If you ignore those EEs, they are going to disrupt your plans, especially if based on conjurations. I think the solution is to very quickly go after the other mage with all you have, perhaps while using Tanglevine/Teleport on the EE. Quicksand is just too expensive on them.

Conjurations are slow in my experience. It takes quite some rounds to profit from them.

If your opponent has an agro build, you will not win if the trick of your book is based on conjurations.

Yeah I know what you mean and you can get it to work, but when I see a card like Otto Kronig, I envision a group of builders repairing walls and conjurations while Otto increases armor... But... that is just not a winning spellbook.

Or Talos, for which you need at least 3 outposts for 4 turns... Not a winning book...

Or a camp defended by spike pits. Not winning...

Or the Helm of Command, I think one should be able to attach 2 or 3 Command Incantations to it...

This is the opening I used to do in order to counter an air wizard who casts an Earth Elemental in Round 1 and then one every uneven round (up to 4).

The first Earth Elemental you can kill before he can attack you, but the 2nd is already difficult and will attack you.

The 3rd will cause you to leave your base to avoid the zone attack.

While you are cleaning up the 3rd and try to ignore the 4th, the wizard builds up forces.

How do you respond?

When an earth elemental finds himself in a zone with a guarding Watchdog, is he allowed to use his zone attack (which would also attack the Watchdog) or is he supposed to use his Melee attack to attack the guarding Watchdog?

Your're a wizard! =;-)

My list grows smaller:

Some suggestions:

• It looks like the numbers saying how much copies you have of the base game and expansions is resetting every time I access the page?
  
• Bug in Full Text Search: "Corrode" does not find the Goblin Alchemist?
  
• Try your builder on an iPad. It looks like it is extremely difficult to click the + and - buttons.
  
• Exclude cards that do not apply for the mage ("for dark mage only when configuring a Priest"). Perhaps with a checkbox?
  
• Add "total cost", being card cost * number of cards (I know, not possible right now).
  
• Change the order of the fields "slot" and "wizard". You select a slot and the wizard is set - not visa versa.
  
• An overview page showing only the names of the cards and the amount of cards, sorted by Equipment, Conjurations, Creatures, Enchantment, Incantation, Attacks. That way you can grab a screenshot and post it somewhere.
  
• Search fields for level and casting cost.
  
• I like alphabetic ordering, but the order on card type would make more sense like you order them in your spell book. Normally that is: Equipment, Conjurations, Creatures, Enchantment, Incantation, Attacks.
  
• Order the spells by cost by clicking on the header.
  
• Even more slots? We've got 4 in the base game, and 8 in the expansions and 4 in Academy... =;-)
  
• Add a way to export/import a spellbook so you can pass it on to somebody to have a look? Perhaps as an URL so somebody can look at it and save it in one of his own slots if he likes it? This will also allow you to work on a book on multiple computers and work on multiple variations of books.
  
• A "report errata" feature that allows people to report mistakes while searching or if a card has changed.
  

OK. Cannot reply there.

Great document!

I'd include STAGGER though.