Quote from: JasonBourneZombie on April 14, 2016, 12:58:46 PM

Jinx and nullify are both mandatory triggers during the counter step. Wouldn't they both be revealed on the first cast and leave nothing for the second just like a nullify reverse magic combo?

Not if you play Jinx on your opponent's mage

Incorrect. 

http://forum.arcanewonders.com/index.php?topic=14626.msg42060#msg42060

Choose targets is the first step of casting a spell and both jinx and nullify are simultaneously triggered.  Both are revealed and the controller of them chooses which one to pay to resolve.

Galvatar is so strong (and such an investment) that you really don't want to use a full round action to do anything besides attack. I'd take out hail of stones and destroy magic. Use purge magic and be careful about testing for nullifies.

Bear strength is a must for such an aggressive play style, is very efficient mana for damage.

You need more dissolve (or acid ball) you want your opponent at 0 armor all the time.

Force wave can be used as a quick cast AOE by bashing things into a wall or through a wall of thorns although I never really end up being that. If the opponent swarms then race them down. Forcemaster can kill someone in three turns of melee if they are not defending themselves well.

Include and Burk boulder and/or jinx for a finisher.

Best defense against a rusher is to summon one creature then use wall of thorns and curve push on them. If they don't put on any armor then punish them for it. And now you've got a perfectly positioned wall between you and them but your creature is beating on them and hindering.

Because a familiar is an investment in a long game and if the game goes long and people start running out of spells then spellbind will really help. A thought spore with acid ball is 4 sp and is a threat that must be delt with.

Don't fall into the trap of thinking lots of defenses means you don't need armor.  Defenses are good vs big attacks armor is good against a lot of small attacks.  1 defense and some armor is better then lots of defenses or lots of armor.

Whirling strike is rarely going to be useful.  You are paying 9 mana to get one extra attack since you are in a situation where you could have used sweeping on galvatar but used whirling strike instead.  You'd need 3 armored targets for that to be a good move.  Besides, you want to focus your damage.

I'd cut one or both whirling strikes and add 2 flamescale hauberks. 

Dissolve specifically targets mages so that would make the equipment indestructible which probably goes against the 'intuitive design' philosophy.

There is enough room on the ground for an Archer to shoot someone else on the ground but that presumably doesn't work because the potential target moves close to you. A flyer doesn't want to move closer and that is why you can shoot him. But fliers can move close to each other.

It is unintuitive that you can hinder me but also be shot. That's not how it works on the ground. I imaging flying space to be another zone above the map and flying creatures can swoop down for melee as a 'free move with their attack'

It's weird that two flying archers in the same zone can attack other...