Quote from: Toxziq on May 27, 2014, 10:23:32 PM

I'm so ready to rebuild my Malakai priest spell book around this one... any takers?

I'd be interested in seeing what you come up with at least Toxziq. The Priest remains one of the mages I've yet to get competent with.

It seems like people have trouble with him but all he really needs to be competent is a battleforge, a HA'd cleric to soak hits (when the time comes), and a HoB for versatility. Boiled down its fairly typical battleforge strat...

Quote from: Arlemus on May 26, 2014, 06:16:55 AM

Bind an acid ball on an elemental wand for efficient armor removal. You don't really need 4 dissolves, 2-3 should be fine, the main problem is the armor and acid ball is a much better solution to that rather than dissolve.

This will not take care of Belts and Wands and other non-armor items so be careful with you decision. A Watergate Wizard with Jellies would be quite effective as it was pointed out.

The only belt that absolutely needs dissolved would be the Colossal Belt (whatever the tough -2 one is).  You can cancel the regen with poisoned blood, ghoul rot, deathlock, etc, and the veteran belt does absolutely nothing if you get rid of the armor.  Yes the wands are a problem, but i doubt many books run more than 2.

I think 3 dissolves is perfectly fine.  It's not like the "stack armor, regen, vet belt" strategy is necro specific.  This is pretty much the stereotypical battleforge strat.  I've played against it and the only thing that is really worrisome is the armor, and the only spell that really makes gains against armor is acid ball.  That's just my experience though.

Bind an acid ball on an elemental wand for efficient armor removal. You don't really need 4 dissolves, 2-3 should be fine, the main problem is the armor and acid ball is a much better solution to that rather than dissolve.

The Asyran Defender has also been spoiled and it is not on the spellbook list either.....

http://forum.arcanewonders.com/index.php?topic=13950.msg33975#msg33975

Probably should add it to the list of cards.....

Oh wow really? I kindof hate the art, but theyre such effeciently costed targets for HA theyre going to be awesome.

Though, I do still like clerics as HA.  You get the most for your mana and a small heal on top.

Quote from: Arlemus on May 23, 2014, 02:18:23 PM

Quote from: Wildhorn on May 23, 2014, 02:03:01 PM

It is not weird. In all expansion there were cards that were in none of the mages spellbooks. They were there for other mages or for spellbook modification.

In my opinion, including ballista not putting it in at least the AT Warlord's book seems WEIRD.

Well, in the "big" expansions, FvW & DvN, they tried putting at least one copy of all the spells from that Mage's school in their pre-built spellbook. They tried including all the other cards as well.

In the only example of a "small" expansion, CoK, this was not the case. Multiple cards were left out b/c they tried using a combination of old cards from the original Mage with the new ones from the Mage found in that set. For the JBM, this meant that Galador and the Bridge Trolls were left out, among other cards. So, this is likely what is happening here, imo.

For example, the Altar of Domination is practically guaranteed to be a War School card, yet it wasn't on the list that you did of the new Warlord's spellbook. The same could be true for Ballista.

That's a fair argument, you're probably right. I don't know why I thought all released cards had to be on a list, but obviously they don't.  I completely forgot about Altar of Domination too; the card better be boss 

Quote from: Arlemus on May 23, 2014, 11:51:07 AM

Morning star is definitely in the set, no assumptions.  Not only is it in one of the card fan outs that AW likes to do, but you can also see it from the box video if you look closely enough.  If you go to the FiF section of the website you'll see it in the banner.

Yeah, I know. I was just trying to say it hadn't been spoiled yet. Perhaps "assume" wasn't the best word to use there, since we know for sure that one is in it.

Quote from: Arlemus on May 23, 2014, 11:51:07 AM

Ballista isn't in the set.  It's not part of the AT Warlord's list nor the A. Warlock's. 

That doesn't mean it isn't in there. But it should have gone on its own list of "Cards that might be included" or something like that.

Quote from: Arlemus on May 23, 2014, 11:51:07 AM

Not 100% on it, but I'm nearly sure brace yourself gives armor (+2 or 3) then is destroyed.  You can tell from the fan out in FiF that it gives a creature a trait starting with an "A," and for only 2 mana (the face down cost) it's a pretty good guess 

I completely agree, but we don't know that 100% lol, which is why I have it there.

Oh, yeah, I guess ballista could be in there but not be part of either book...but that seems really weird for AW to do.  I honestly hope it's not because I'm unsure that the current card pool has strong enough answers to it, but that's a different conversation I suppose.

Called it, 

I wish he had 1 more health, but I guess we'll see if his versatility more than makes up for his lower survival stats.  Also, his art is top noch; very nice.