That's intresting. I like the even number of init rounds. That seems the fairest way. For the very reason that kellanen just broight up. It would suck to be ready too sling the final boulder, only to be told its time and you lost.

I think that causes a different problem griz. Sure it's nice to have the restriction lifted after qualifiers, but you then end up with a bunch of timed game builds fighting in am untimed match. I see that causing issues, maybe its just me tho

Im kind of in the same mindset there. This game differs from others in just how customizable the books can become. Every mage can use 90 percent of the spells available without needing to add specific conditioners to play them, like the colors of mana from MtG. Also theme decks don't do the same kind of thing they do in MtG, where if one plays just soldiers or warriors or elves or what have you, one gains many synergy bonuses simply by virtue of having them together. Plants, clerics, angels etc don't carry the same synergy bonuses in mage wars. At least not directly. They usually require extra set up wirh additional cards in MWs play style, cards like armory, royal armorer, tooth and nail, or badger frenzy.
Because of this fact pretty much every set contains spells for every mage. In fact most MW expansions make a point of printing cards that help DEFEAT the new mechanics they bring out to maintain balance, cards mind shield, arcane ward, siphon energy, etc.
So in MW you're welcome to make a book with just plants in it so you can keep to your theme, but because my druid might have fireballs or a flaming hellion in it for utility, you may not be optimally prepared for what you might see.

Well thanks! Where were you 2 months ago? Lol!

Welcome to the forums! Glad you've posted a book! It looks interesting but here's some food for thought for ya.

Reds right, you don't have nearly enough offence to actually kill the other mage, mainly because GAs are great for guarding, which you should do often to keep them alive. That means you aren't attacking wirh them. Can't kill the enemy mage wirh counter attacks.
If you wanna rely on ranged attacks like a bow or attack spells to deal damage, you'd better have a hawkeye for your mage. That extra die adds up!
I know the priestess has awesome channelling you begin with but without ANY channelling generators (except for one discount ring) you will still find yourself out of mana very fast.
You've got 7 creatures, one of which costs over 20 mana, all of which yiu must full cast. You've got no open full actions to use that bow with. That's gonna be mana taxing especially when the vast majority of your creatures are over 10 mana. You're not gonna habe the time to play all those creatures and still move, attack, or cast any of those conjurations you're packing.
Galvanize is a waste with a priestess. You can just remove those conditions without the needed face down contingency. If you're counting on them buffing the angels keep I  mind that they only get hit about 5/8ths of the time did they are that much less likely to get conditions.
Radiant breastplate is an odd choice due to the high number of guard or imtercept creatures you have, meaning you won't be using the 2 mana guard much, so id rather a dragonscale hauberk, or another chest piece with an elemental defence.
You don't have enough swarm potential to use merraveren. Esp when mist of your creatures have defences.
Demonic bloodlust. I get what your looking to do, but thets cheaper and better ways to get 2 extra dice, without the drawback and huge sp tag. If you're splashing into dark with holy mages, poisoned blood is a much better choice.
You've got a massive assortment of Equipment here, but much of it doubles locations. 2 gloves boots. Amd helmets. Tgats gonna leave you with a lot of dead cards in your book.
More later if yout want. Sorry long day

I like it! I think you are woefully short on attack spells but them, that's always my opinion.
Couple questions. What's the cheetah speed for?
I notice you've got no positional spells. No pushes, ports or minors. Not that you always need them evry game but without them you are a bit open to having your lashers ported where you don't want them.
With the abundance of restricted you've got, teleport is going to be the obvious choice, so maybe an astral anchor would help?
And with no way to reuse the few destruction spells you've got you might be in trouble with port wands or the like.

Just a few thoughts, i like it though! 

Its a gamble but you've got a decent chance to ace down a creature with 10ish life with a one-two punch combo. So if you open witg sectarus and decent damage you could drop the rise again for cheap then follow up with a firestream or rock and finish it off. Its possible, but i dunno if id wanna do it. That's pretty heavy rng.

Welp i tried. Im outa this doom and gloom thread. Lol ima go be happy about something. Lol seriously tho, its a game. An awesome one but a slow growing one. Its my favorite game by far and that's a fact so ill continue to do whatever i can to help it grow where i can and i cant do any better than that. None of us can.
Heres to hoping you get what you want and everyone is pleased again. But i for one think its going just fine.