I believe, as has been pointed out in a number of other threads, that it is more player ability that will determine a winner, rather than the "tier" of the mage used. For example, I know my usual opponent has often thought of a dozen things during our games that never occurred to me, knows how to use spells better, knows how to build better books... such that if I win, usually it is either that I luck into pulling the right spell at the right time, or that he is playing a non-competitive build against the best that I can create.

What you would need to do would be to play the same person(s) with all of the mages without messing with channeling, and then playing all of those same person(s) with the same mages against the same mages with changes in channeling... and then a number of times each to get rid of statistical deviation... it would potentially take years to test these changes.

Are these changes in effect for the entire weekend, or are these just tournament rules. I will only be playing casually on Friday, so just need to know if I should replace the Pillar in some of my books.

When you say the following:

Swarm (Please remember all non-mage objects are also spells)
Creatures with the Swarm trait cannot be targeted by non-attack actions or spells that do not specifically target Swarm creatures.

Does this mean that Flying Creatures can not attack a Swarm Creature? You emphasize that all non-mage objects (the flying creature) is a spell, and that spells can not target them... and I think you have to target something to attack it....


Also, when you say (again about Swarms):

Additionally, they are immune to ... life gain that does not target swarms.

Does this mean that they do not benefit from Innate Life, such as from an Etherian Lifetree?


I'm not entering... just curious. (I don't play on OCTGN, I don't use Promos at all, and I sometimes have disconnection issues at home.)

Mana Wastes
Conjuration - Terrain
Mana
Arcane level 1 or Dark level 1
Mana cost 5 (based on Mana Shard cost, increased due to Terrain type and can impact multiple objects)
Objects that channel in this zone gain Channeling -1

I don't think this would be popular as lowered Channeling would generally tend to slow the game down, but could help with a Mana denial strategy (which needs to be a valid strategy IMO), and gives the Wizard an in-school terrain.

I will try to make it.

I just put in for PTO for Friday

Just another thing to have to house rule, I guess.

I will try to make it.

The new conditions only cause the burns to go away... they never otherwise impact the target creature... so the creature is not killed. In fact, it is better off in that there no longer are any burns on it.

Think of the application of a freeze condition first looking to see if it can be applied to the creature, but before it can cause any other effects, it is cancelled against an existing burn.