Klaxas and I talked about a tactic that uses Idol of Pestilence, Poison Gas Cloud, Chains of Agony, Tangle Vine, Force Hold, Wall of stone, Ghoul Rot, and Teleport you lock the creatures in place and keep the Damage over Time eating away at creatures. To slow down your Damage use unicorn, Regrowth Belt, Tree of life. I also added Malcoda and Skeleton Solider into my build.

Another thing is use Wall Of Thorns and Force Push to knockback any threats and damage them.

Has anybody else tried something similar?

Have you tried this build?

What do you think Strengths / Weaknesses ?

I used this technique and pretty much destroyed my enemy Beastmaster.
I used my Wizard to pull this off.
I also mass Jinx + Nullify + mana + force hold + curses and Poison and Malacoda. I have 6 Jinxes and each turn the person is stuck in poison and taking at least 7 damage each turn from all the curses, poison and others.
While I am destroying the opposing mage, I am also force holding all the other creature and they all died in poison damage.

I did not need any Wall of Thorns anymore. All you need is all the DOT plus poison. Malacoda + Skeletal soldier is all you need.  You also need dispel, dissolve and teleport in your build. Magewand Teleport.

Due to my mass Jinx and my opponent did not expect this type of mage build, he pretty much waste each turn trying to remove the curses (and failed) or my Mind spell Force Crush (Upkeep 4) but they are unmovable (they can't cast push on themselves) + they take 2 damage.

Due to the level of opponent I have is so good, I was only able to put Ghoul Rot + Force Crush + Poison up to the point the opponent died from it. I was not able to bring out Malacoda but I was able to bring out Idol of Pestilence. So really each turn my opponent takes automatic 7 damage + my range attack spells as Wizard.

So both of us are taking damage each turn and all the beastmaster creatured died after a few turns.

Just wondering.

I saw in one of the games in the Chicago convention Friday to Sunday that there is some free game for Magewars. I am wondering if this is being done by a vendor or just by a fan?

The convention has the normal comics + movies crowd but they have some gaming. The convention is in McCormick Center (biggest convention center in Chicago).

I'll see if I bring some of my spell books tomorrow if anybody shows up for some gaming or I can just play and demo it for others to see (I'll just beat my co-worker) with my own spell book (knowing that he would not know how to play it). I demoed the game to at least 2 co-workers and at least one bought his own core set. The other one has not bought yet because he probably just need to pick one up in a store if he sees one. He may pick up one tomorrow if there is a vendor over there that sells Magewars.

Not sure if Arcane Wonders will show up in Chicago convention this weekend.

Anyway, if I do not see Arcane Wonders this weekend, I'll just shoot to see them in Gencon.

Osutra (owl) could have ability which allows her to take back used spell and put it to the her owner's spell book (probably with some restrictions).

And this would be an OP card (over powered). My reasons: I planned exactly when to dispel or counter their enchants (forcefield) then you are telling me that there is a way to bring it back?

Last time I heard from another card game - Monster Reborn was banned..(or was that change of heart?) - nevermind. I play mage wars so long with all the counters and adding it again in the game may be too strong. But that is just me. Our normal game play here is like 3 hours long with all the counters and anticipating of when to counter what card.

Ha!  No worries guys - that is a minor or secondary ability at best.

So, does anyone have any ideas for her owl familiar Osutra?  What would you like to see it do?

Also, the new Beastmaster has a pet hunting falcon, Skree. Please share your thoughts!

Beastmaster do need a familiar that can do:


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  [li] range attack (i.e. attack spells)[/li]
  [li] or better yet the falcon is flying sky high so the bird can notify fellow creatures to help the mage.[/li]
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You may also represent "getting help" by the falcon/owl to use 1 mana to move a friendly animal one space away in a direction of the owners mage discretion and 4 mana to move up to 2 animals up to 2 spaces instead. In essence, scout for help or search for allys.

During my play testing with the Beastmaster, he always needs help in positioning his animals to properly attack. Helps the Beastmaster in positioning his attacks.

I just order from Amazon or Ebay.. I got all the needed tokens and spell books easy. I did order from this website for 3 spellbooks without issue just 1.5 weeks ago.

Aside from the normal fix buildings the Goblin builder is not used a lot.

For some reason, this Goblin builder always gets push aside but these are the techniques I used or am planning on using him..

1) Goblin Builder to set traps Mangler Caltrops
2) Goblin Builder to set walls on unsuspecting escapee or would be attacker.
3) Goblin Builder to walk away from battle and setup the catapult from a distance.
4) Goblin Builder to build towers for placement
5) Goblin Builder walking around the Arena building temples (you can play this with Mass temples).
- Use the one that either gives you reroll or the one that gives you +1 melee/+1 defense or heal.
6) Goblin Builder to wake up sleeping allies with 2 attack dice.

Even though the Mangler Caltrops does not damage them when you cast it in a zone with enemy creatures, they still get hindered though..

Questions:
1) Did you ever use the Goblin Builder successfully and what did he do?
2) Do you use the Goblin Builder normally as part of your force or do you strip down your Warlord deck to not include him?

Recently I have been stripping him out of my Warlord deck but plan on using him on speciality deck (mass temples) and others..

I have 2 core sets + 2 spell tome 1 + 1 spell tome 2 + 2 FM vs Warlord sets and 13 spell books.

I don't think I have enough cards especially if you build all the spell books for 2 v 2.

Every spell book seems to need Nullify and that is in limited supply if spread out among all the spell books. Me and my son try not to touch each others spell books. We try to face each other and not show our spell books.

That is the fun of it.

I would do Spell tome 1 AND spell tome 2 (Both) unless you like redoing your spell book each time. I like to leave mine intact for the most part and just change a few if needed.  Another thing you may try is 2 core sets this way you can play 2 v 2. I went overboard with 2 copies of each because I bought my son and myself our own copy.