It's a good decent enough spawnpoint and paladin can just as much have a solid book with it as the cleric mages (imo much better than priest). With his access to ballista, war spells and armor he can react fast when rushed and he is the only mage that can intercept things to protect smaller creatures like archers (and easily guard with his armor) or the temple itself. In the long run he can use aura's as free buffs for all creatures in his zone so that's even better when you have many small creatures. If not by melee attacking, you can also gain valor by healing, intercepting, the occasional attack spell and by using your challange on creatures that will attack non-mage stuff.

The big angels indeed either need a book around them (Valshalla especially) or should cover a weakness in your book. Samandriel is great for nonliving and Selesius is an amazing counter to flying. However, since almost all holy mages already have counters to undead and have flyers they don't fill any gaps for them. So I agree with Romeo that most holy mages are better off without them.
However, I do have a druid book with Selesius to push/counter flying  and I used to have a forcemaster with Samandriel for necromancers and generally when she was action starved and had mana to spare.

I think communication is indeed the issue. (I have no problem with the interface or game modes) I don't think AD can't really do anything about it since I believe it is linked to OCTGN, but it would be nice if:

1) There was one chat for communication and another chat for game information
2) If both players agree, it should be possible for players to include sound (and maybe even video). It would make the games way more personal.

Maybe we should send suggest this to OCTGN?

Personally i find the dwarf much harder to play. I don't like to play the classic "you can't hurt me" tank so I prefer some sort or big guys buddy build.

I always either spend most of my mana on equipment with a forge (leaving me too mana drained to actually summon big guys or support them properly) or spend the mana on big guys and manually trying to summon armor, which always makes me very action drained. I think the Anvil Throne warlord is my worst mage by far.

The reality is that the ruling isn't as waterproof/consistent on this as it should have been. I also believe the intention is that all rerolling effects are equal, and it should be played like that.

Awesome book.

Id change the skeletal knight for a kriegshammer dwarf. It saves 3 points.the biggest downside is his low life... Another card that really benefits from veteran is Sir Corazin. He is not a bad option either.

I think Beldin is making some very good points but neglects 3 downsides:

The first is the high spellbookcost for most mages. 

Secondly, unlike all the other cards (Bull, ...) Sunfire amulet has to be played during the first 1-3 rounds or maybe at the latest turn 4/5. If played later, you probably won't get much use out of it. Of course there are exceptions to the rule, but the vast majority of the games tend to take 8-13 rounds.
This means that you have to play it during your opening where every spell you cast is mostly key for your gameplan. Setting aside 6 mana and a quick cast so early in the game is a big investment since that could also be used to cast a bigger buddy, an armor, a battle forge or anything else to help your main assault.

Thirdly, it can be countered by finite life as well which is mostly not the case for the other examples since they work immediately. (assuming you did not have a FD poisoned blood on your mage)

I know this is way more work, but for me, the youtube videos would be much more enjoyable to watch if (most) of the planning phases and extensively long thinking moments would have been cut in the video.

This is no critique to the players because I do this myself at certain moments. However, for a video, this is too slow for me.