And Dave, i love ya buddy, but you should GET on octgn. Show us how those unstable zombies work out! Lol

Unstable zombie

the additional attack only applies to the very next attack that creature makes. in every case (straywood scout, charge, bear strength, hawkeye, focused strike, etc) the extra die gained only applies to the first attack. so a doublestrikeing timberwolf lets say, would roll 5 dice on the 1st and 4 dice on the 2nd attack.

 define major damage by turn 3 for me?  The way you describe your play style is sometimes confusing. A spawnpoint using turtle priestess for instance can reliably drop 2 creatures a round and still use a qc each round. That's is statistically not even probable that an 8 mana attack spell or a 5 dice attack from a big creature to take out a cleric or knight creature in one go.  And if they are staying put your gonna need to be pulling out movement spells or moving up And attacking the creatures yourself. If they use an interceptor or a big guard to spread out your intended damage then you may find yourself behind on mana and actions before long. Shed some light on this for me

They were also designing the errata based on a global meta, not (and i mean no offence) a local micro meta. If you guys were play testing it a lot then your meta was used to seeing it frequently. Therefore the rush down your referring to was ready in all your books for that instance. Now we run into the same problem that was such a huge issue for the wizard and his tower. How many SP are you gonna dedicate to teching against a mage you may not see? It was also not restricted to any school or mage in particular so a wizard could just as easily spam the temples and benefit from early cheap armor off a forge and his voltaric shield so that the rush is blunted right away. Also the tactic involved having a few ToLs and the full complement of 6 HoBs. So you can drop the temple of light early and sti get the free harassment shots while you  drop the rest of the temples.
It was wildly overpowered, and had so much value that NOT running that strat would have been considered sub par play. Free dice come in small batches of 2 or 3 on conjurations and those have hefty play costs too (I'm referencing the lotus and orchid), or big timing issues (ballista, akiros hammer), or range restrictions (all of them, 0-0, 1-2, 2-3) that make them impractical to spam. Add to all that the increasing numbers of armor or healing that come with those hobs and that's a stack of bad that just keeps getting worse. It needed adjustment pretty bad.

Oh, so its UNDER powered then? Lol missed that point in the prelims there Griz

I'll sign a thornlasher for ya buddy