Another thing I would recommend is using walls to restrict movement. Walls that have a lower Armor and or health often can be passed through but they attack anything that moves through them. While Stronger wall tend to cost more and are harder to get past because often these can not be passed through. I included a pic for Wall of Fire with some extra info added on.
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So choose what walls you use against a rush wisely. I tend to like Wall of Thrones for anything at level 2 or higher. It it one of the cheapest walls and it still has good stats vs non-fire schools like the Beastmaster.  Another fun trick is to put Traps at the end of a route you block off with walls or use archers to create a kind of kill box. Funnel the force down and try to pick off the weaker targets.

Mordok's Obelisk
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So people know what it does.

im sure there will be a call for male/female versions of all the mages.  since it seems the mage card on the board is mostly picture with the stats off to the side, it should not be too hard to come out with a pack that just has the opposite genders for all the mages.

Another thing we had talked about was possibly making a male and female for each class with slightly different abilities. Just because you learn the same school does not mean you did not focus and another aspect of its core teachings. I can honestly say we have seen about 8-10 powers that could possible be used from each of the schools. Like anything else they need to be looked at for flavor, and balance.

Oops, sorry.  I forget that people have no idea what cards I'm talking about!

I also forgot to put Dissolve on my list!  Thanks, Shad0w

NP. You going to make Gencon. I will be doing Demos all 4 days

Once player get used to build books and playing the game. My group finds the Average tourney style game takes about 50 minutes. I all depends on the play style of the people playing.

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Dispel - destroys enchantments
Dissolve - Destroys equipment
Block / Reverse Attack - Stops or sends back attacks
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Nullify - Enchant that functions as counter magic
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Minor Heal - Lowest level heal spell
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Mana Crystal / Mana Flower - Mana boosting conjuration
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2 copy of Geyser just to be safe.  - Attack that can put out fire.
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I would use 3 Seeking Dispel - Removes face down enchants (For example Cards like Hellfire trap that have an affect when turned face up)

The card are the standard TCG size for a reference think MTG card size so you should have no problem putting the sleeve and card into your tome. This is what I plan on doing.

One thing we did during testing Was just make a check sheet with the number of copies listed for each card and as we played we just marked it off.  Once we got our 2nd kit of cards We often had 3-6 spell books ready to go at any given time. To tell you the truth 90% off our build never used over 4 copies of any given card.