I always thought it would be funny to try a book that uses many range 3 attack spells. Erect a wall in front of the enemy mage to keep him in his back row.  Blast from the relative safety from your own. Many thoughtspores facilitate positioning control and corrosion/removal of enemy armor. You really want to get your channeling up to 16 which is enough to teleport you up to 2 spaces so that you have a clear file to the enemy and hit him with a thunderbolt each turn. There's nowhere to hide!

Attack
2 Acid Ball
3 Hurl Meteorite
3 Thunderbolt

Conjuration
Deathlock
4 Mana Crystal
6 Wall of Pikes

Creature
4 Thoughtspore

Enchantment
Akiro's Favor
4 Block
2 Brace Yourself
Harmonize
Hawkeye

Equipment
Elemental Wand
Mage Wand
Moonglow Amulet

Incantation
2 Dispel
2 Dissolve
2 Force Push
Minor Heal
Purify
2 Sleep
2 Teleport

Plan is
T1 (20): Extended Wall of Pikes right in front of the enemy (-9), Mana Crystal (-5)
T2 (17): Double Crystal (-10)
T3 (20): Crystal (-5), Thoughtspore (-8) (prob a force push to push the enemy around)
T4 (21): Amulet (-6), Thoughtspore (-8) (this could be another enemy control spore, or a teleport one to keep near you to make sure you are always within range 3 for a blast)
T5 (22): Harmonize (-6), play it by ear (spore 3? hawkeye/favor? keeping spores alive? blast?)

This plan of course might be a bit optimistic, but the T1 walls may discourage an early rush by the enemy. Of course actions/mana may have to be used in early turns to keep the spores alive. Walls can be replaced as needed. Pesky creatures that sneak through can be put to sleep. Drop deathlock when the enemy is low on life to seal the deal.

This is obviously not a "tier 1" construction, but more of a casual/fun book. Comments/suggestions/mockery are always welcome. Cheers!

Have tried a few different versions of this book with mixed results. This book aims for a long game. With hard mana denial I limit my opponent to only a few creatures which I control.  All the while I am gradually tooling up with the forge. In the end my opponent won't have much out and I'll be in his face with Galvitar and a Forcefield which probably means that I win.

Forcemaster

Attack
2 Force Hammer

Conjuration
Battle Forge
2 Enchanter's Wardstone
Mana Siphon
Mordok's Obelisk
Supression Orb

Creature
Invisible Stalker

Enchantment
Armor Ward
2 Bear Strength
Charm
2 Essence Drain
Mongoose Agility
Nullify
Decoy
Falcon Precision
Mind Control
Force Crush
Poisoned Blood
2 Forcefield

Equipment
Enchanter's Ring
Elemental Cloak
Eagleclaw Boots
Dancing Scimitar
Psi Orb
Wand of Healing
Mage Wand
Galvitar
Regrowth Belt
Gauntlets of Strength

Incantation
2 Dispel
2 Dissolve
2 Force Push
Drain Power
Battle Fury
Purify
Teleport

The plan is turn 1 (20): Battle Forge ( in front of me, Enchanter's Wardstone (4) in middle back row
Turn 2: (18 + 1): deploy Enchanter's ring (1+1), Probably drop Orb and Obelisk in back row opposite corners if I think my enemy will summon creatures (16)
Turn 3: (11 + 1): deploy gauntlets (2+1), FD Armor Ward (1), FD Nullify (1). get into position to drop mana siphon turn 4

Play it by ear from there. Invisible Stalker is there just because it's nice to have a little backup at times.
Any feedback would be appreciated. thanks!

Tried this out last night resulting in 2 quick wins vs. a Priestess

Araxxian Crown

Attack
2 Fireball
2 Flameblast

Conjuration
Mana Crystal

Creature
Dark Pact Slayer
2 Firebrand Imp
Infernian Scourger
Sardonyx

Enchantment
Agony
Arcane Corruption
Chains of Agony
Force Crush
2 Ghoul Rot
Magebane
2 Marked for Death
4 Nullify
2 Rust

Equipment
Demonhide Armor
Fireshaper Ring
Gauntlets of Strength
Lash of Hellfire
Moloch's Torment
Ring of Curses
2 Sunfire Amulet

Incantation
2 Battle Fury
2 Dispel
2 Dissolve
Drain Life
Drain Soul
2 Evade
3 Force Push
2 Perfect Strike
2 Power Strike
6 Reassemble
Seeking Dispel
2 Teleport

The plan is Turn 1 (19) Sunfire Amulet (6) Dbl Move
Turn 2 (22) Mana Crystal (5) Dbl Move. Now you should be 1 zone away from the enemy at the most
Turn 3 (27) Force Push either yourself or your enemy into the same zone and summon Sardonyx

Spend the rest of the match 1 or 2 zones away buffing Sardy/Blasting the enemy as required. Try to keep a Nullify on the enemy as much as possible to avoid them squirming away and healing or teleporting. Control guards with pushes and Evade incantations. Sardy's full attack can get also sweep through one guard and still hit the mage. Sardy is an absolute beast. His attack may only be 5 dice but piercing 2 means that damage will stick and with the finite life thing there's no way of removing it. With marked for death that's 6 dice per attack, 11 dice in 2 Piercing +2 attacks with Battle Fury. With all the cheap reasembles he's basically unkillable. With his unstopable and nonliving traits there's really not much you can do to control him. The key thing is you need to keep Sardy on the enemy as much as possible so position control is vital. The Force crush was thrown in for style, but really should be another teleport plus another nullify or seeking dispel to help you win the position/nullify battle.

This book probable specializes in turtly type books since it starts the main offens turn 3 and only gets worse from there and negates healing. I could see how a strong swarm like the Aviary book would give it a hard time. And Wizards of course with all their teleports and nullifies and voltaric shield could be a problem, but then they're a problem for every deck. It could use a cloak of shadows in case of lots of ranged attacks. You could probably lose 2 reassembles for this. Honestly 6 is overkill.

On the whole it's a really fun and nasty book!

Wanted to try a very agro build where I get mister Blight in the enemy's face ASAP. I use Sunfire Amulets to help offset the Life cost of Sardy. Yeah it's expensive pointswise, but I figure if a keep Sardy on the enemy turn after turn I don't really need much else. I also have a heal in there because it might be useful and it's 9 cost which is my channeling. Once he's there, I drop nullifies on the enemy every round to keep them from wriggling out of his zone and popping off a heal or teleport while using my full action to punch/blast/summon/buff or heal Sardy as appropriate

Warlock: Araxxian Crown

Attack
4 Fireball
2 Flameblast

Conjuration
Mana Crystal

Creature
2 Firebrand Imp
2 Infernian Scourger
Sardonyx, Blight of the Living

Enchantment
Agony
2 Block
Ghoul Rot
Magebane
Marked for Death
5 Nullify
2 Rust

Equipment
Demonhide Armor
Fireshaper Ring
Gauntlets of Strength
2 Lash of Hellfire
Moloch's Torment
Ring of Curses
2 Sunfire Amulet

Incantation
2 Battle Fury
2 Dispel
2 Dissolve
2 Force Push
Heal
2 Perfect Strike
2 Power Strike
5 Reassemble
2 Seeking Dispel
3 Teleport

So Turn1 (19) QC Sunfire Amulet (6), Double Move
Turn 2 (22) QC something cheap like ring, gauntlets, amulet (3), Double Move
Turn 3 (28) Maybe QC Force Push on myself to put me in the enemy zone? (3) FC Sardonyx(24)
Turn 4 (10) We'll see what develops from here...

Feedback and criticism is appreciated. Thanks

Heading into the arena tomorrow. Not sure what I will face (it won't be a Wizard). Want to be able to deal with a variety of threats. Here's what I'm thinking

Johtari BM

Attack
2 Acid Ball
Fireball
Force Hammer
2 Hurl Boulder
Jet Stream
Lightning Bolt
Pillar of Light
Surging Wave

Conjuration
3 Bloodspine Wall
Hand of Bim Shalla
Lair
2 Mana Flower
Stranglevine
2 Tanglevine

Creatures
3 Bitterwood Fox
Cervere
Emerald Tegu
3 Feral Bobcat
Spitting Raptor
Steelclaw Grizzly
3 Thunderrift Falcon
Timber Wolf

Enchantments
Bear Strength
Bull Endurabce
Eagle Wings
Harmonize
2 Hawkeye
2 Mongoose Agility
Nullify
Regrowth
Rhino Hide

Equipment
Bearskin
Eagleclaw Boots
Elemental Wand
Hunting Bow
Leather Boots
Leather Gloves
Regrowth Belt

Incantation
2 Dispel
2 Dissolve
Force Push
Rouse the Beast
2 Sniper Shot
2 Teleport

I'm thinking turn 1 will be harmonized lair and we'll see what happens from there. I will pretty much leave the summoning up to the lair while I kite and blast (Mongoose agility + fast = I can move 2 and blast twice per turn... assuming I have the mana).  Variety of attack spells b/c I don't know what I will face. I'll Elemental Wand whatever element seems most effective till it gets dissolved, then I will switch to bow.

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hello. I've got about 5 IRL games of Mage Wars under my belt. I think this is a game I could really get into. I've been looking at some of the books people have posted and coming up with ideas of my own. Here's a Forcemaster build. In mtg my favorite color is blue and Forcemaster seemed well suited to a very controlish style of playing. Invisible Stalker roams around and destroys conjurations. Once the enemy is down in the 0-9 mana range per turn, finish him with the force blade. I wanted to put mana leeches in here to really seal the "no mana for you" deal but I couldn't figure what to lose. I think it would do well against many Wizard builds. I don't have DvN but something tells me the Necromancer would be tough for this deck to beat. Would appreciate any tips/criticism. Cheers, happy warrin'.

Attack
Force Hammer
Invisible Fist

Conjurations
2 Enchanter's Wardstone
Mana Crystal
Mana Siphon
Mordock's Obelisk

Creatures
Invisible Stalker
Thoughtspore

Enchantments
Bear Strength
2 Charm
2 Decoy
2 Essence Drain
2 Forcefield
3 Mind Control
2 Nullify
Poisoned Blood

Equipment
Galvitar
Guantlets of Strength
Mage Wand
Moonglow Amulet
Psi Orb

Invocations
3 Dispel
3 Dissolve
2 Drain Power
2 Force Push
Heal
Steasl Equipment