How can we make [mwcard=MWSTX2FFC09]Otto Kronig, Master Engineer[/mwcard] good?  To get value out of Otto you need to have a non-living corporeal conjuration that is so threatening to our opponent that they want to destroy it and Otto can protect and repair it.  Also we are going to want Otto to get to work before the enemy arrives since he needs time to add armor.  If the enemy is already attacking we would likely be better served by being aggressive.  So we need a conjuration that is threatening and worth summoning by round 2.  [mwcard=DNJ01]Altar of Skulls[/mwcard], would be awesome but it takes too long to actually work.  [mwcard=mw1j11]Idol of Pestilence[/mwcard], [mwcard=mw1j19]Deathlock[/mwcard], [mwcard=mw1j16]Mordok's Obelisk[/mwcard] and [mwcard=mw1j21]Suppression Orb[/mwcard] are all quite threatening at the right time, but situational and you don't want to play them too early.

Which leaves one thing, walls.  And if you are going to invest that much into armoring a wall, you want one that is easily repaired therefore: [mwcard=DNW02]Wall of Bones[/mwcard].  So who would benefit the most from walling yourself into your starting corner?  By denying line of sight you negate a lot of normal stratagies.  [mwcard=FWE06]Fortified Position[/mwcard], [mwcard=mw1e37]Sacred Ground[/mwcard], and [mwcard=mw1j15]Mohktari, Great Tree of Life[/mwcard] all become much more powerful when your opponent can't dispel them or push you out of your zone.  Also your opponent can't teleport you out of your fortress without breaking down a wall first.  Another neat trick is if you are attacked by a flier you can use sleep to trap them within your fortress where they cannot be easily woken up.  Beware Huggin and thoughtspores which can teleport you out of your fort.

You will want to be able to cram a lot of bonus channeling into that starting square, you will want a way to attack your opponent over the wall, and you will want an innate long game advantage to get the pay off of all this defense.  Ideas I've had so far, none of them tested:

Gothic Priestess:  Otto, Bone walls, [mwcard=DNC01]Acolyte of the Bog Queen[/mwcard] can repair walls or power the  [mwcard=mw1j23]Temple of Asyra[/mwcard].  Use the temple to summon angels and wear your opponent down while your priestess meditates in safety.  Possibly use a magewand of [mwcard=mw1i22]Resurrection[/mwcard] to create an "infinite" endgame.

Entrenched - Defensive Warlord: You will want to grab more then one zone so that you can lay down a [mwcard=FWJ02]Watchtower[/mwcard] with [mwcard=FWC07]Grimson[/mwcard], and still have space for a barracks.  Eventually climb your wall and place an outpost on the outside and let your barracks start summoning.  Add alter of domination if you think you can pull it off.

Maybe wall in the corner and only play the barracks outside the sniper's nest once you've established a defensive line.  [mwcard=FWC10]Ludwig Boltstorm[/mwcard] can scare attackers away from your walls.  The dwarf warlord's +2 piercing makes Ludwig a beast.

The Skull - Defensive forcemaster.  Start with Grimson and an archer tower, Otto walls you in the corner, then summon 4 thought spores.  When ready use a thoughtspore to teleport the enemy mage into your cage of suffering.  Or use your massive channeling and action advantage to dominate the field.  Probably bind dispel, acid ball, and teleport, plus maybe minor heal or reassemble.  Thought spores benefit greatly from sacred ground and fortified position, and they can guard to lose flying and hide behind the walls.  Occasionally enchant them with block, most unavoidable attacks are range 1 or melee.

Who wants to help me get one of these to work?  Anyone else had success using Otto?

Immunity
This object is immune to all attacks, damage, conditions, and effects of the
specified damage type, including critical damage and direct damage.
Cannot be targeted or affected by spells of the specified type

   Blocks   line   of   sight   (los):
This symbol indicates that the wall prevents
creatures on one side of the wall from seeing
anything on the other side. Abilities and spells
cannot target any object or zone that is on the other side
of a wall that blocks LoS. Walls never block LoS to or from
any creature with the Flying trait.

It all comes down to that tricky phrase, "Cannot be targeted or affected by spells of the specified type."  Blocking my sight certainly seems like affecting me. 

Personally I think that the designers didn't intend for immunity to interact with walls like this, but for the current card pool it seems like a good thing.  The only interaction I can think of is that flaming hellions could shoot through walls of fire.  This is 1) Awesome and 2) exactly the unique nitch that would make hellions special and maybe playable.  Currently hellions are the worst ranged attacker in the game.  Range 1-1 is crippling and at least spitting raptors have corrode which is hard to get in other ways, although I'd argue that spitting raptors are the second worst ranged attacker in the game.  Wait I forgot psylocks...  okay bump those to 2nd and 3rd, but you get my point.

The downside of this is that it would allow necromancers to see through that poison gas wall that was previewed and a mage with a one way wall might be overpowered.  But necromancer already has access to cloak of shadows so it doesn't seem too unreasonable to allow a second means of LoS disparity.  All I ask is that AW play test it a bit before saying no.  But please decide before Gencon... 

Continued from Charmyna's thread: Bringing all mages on par!

Without any errata what cards would you issue to balance the current meta?  The obvious ones right now are:

teleport negating boots,
very cheap wall that blocks LoS with no specific elemental weakness so it can block mage towers, and enable wall oriented tactics (subtle gorilla buff  )
Defensive dispell that only dispells enchantments on your mage to stop 'cheesy' golem pit/plant pit locks.
quick action beastmaster only range 2 weapon (this might actually be too good, maybe add a mana cost to use)
a holy familiar that can only heal
a warlock creature suitable for fighting non-living
defensive buffs for nature swarm
defensive universal buffs for warlord melee swarm
cheap friendly only movement incantation to enable defensive mobility play and defensive ranged play.

That's all I've got off the top of my head.

There are many advantages to nonliving but what are the advantages of the living? If you have a book like Johktari beastmaster with an innate advantage against the bloodfilled what can you throw in as a plan B against the unnaturally animate?

Obviously the unvitaled cannot be healed so life tree and renewing rain are useful. Also if the game can be turned into hit and run tactics the healable should have an advantage, especially considering most living challenged are also mobility challenged.  This makes me want to consider more movement based attacks such as thornpushing.  A few walls of steel may be worthwhile if they make a squad of zombies take three turns to travel around. Especially when i could climb back over on turn 2. Steel is not so great against our jelly friends however and the ever-present threat of teleport makes walls unsound.

The one subtle thing that really struck me though is that the unbreathing ones completely lack flying and only skeletal archer has a ranged attack. This makes me think flying is really the crux of anti-nonliving tactics. Eaglewings, falcons, and maybe grey angels seem the best suited. More expensive flyers don't seem to gain enough defense for their cost and are too efficiently brought down by maim wings.  Although falcons can be disturbingly efficiently brought down by jet stream slamming their little heads against the arena wall.

This is too much theory with not enough experience. What would you add to a book as specific hate against the gutless?

If yes, than there are two tricks I can think of:

A mage has rhino hide, no other armor and two corrosion markers.  Shift enchantment the rhino hide back onto himself to remove the corrosion.

A creature has eagle wings and maim wings.  Shift the eagle wings back to the same creature renewing the 'timestamp' of the eagle wings making it the latest enchantment and thus overriding the maim wings.

Shift Enchant's text: "Move target enchantment you control to a new legal target."  So I'm guessing the word new means this does not work.

However Enchantment Transfusion's text reads: "When enchantment transfusion is revealed you may move any enchantment you control from this creature to one legal target creature up to 2 zones away from this creature."  So I believe these tricks do work with enchantment transfusion.

I assumed repairing a wall was half the purpose of the builder but now I realize that his ability says:  "Remove 1 damage from a Corporeal Conjuration in his zone."

Walls are not in any zone, so does that mean he really can't repair a wall?  If so it's extremely disappointing.