Here are some of the ideas I would like to try:

Kill the enemy by poison and creature swarm

Weaken enemy creatures and and beat them up with my buff mage

Try to control the enemy's movement through spells like Push and then sling attack spells like I have a fireball throwing machine gun


Oh, and winning.  That sounds like fun. 


Any tips are appreciated.

I can recommend winning. It's really good!

Also, the best tip for this entire game, which I always try to adhere to myself (not always successfully):

ROLL WELL

Seriously, the best designed book in the world, handled perfectly, can still lose to a piece of rubbish if it rolls badly and the rubbish rolls well. Getting 3 damage from your 13-dice attack? Lose the game. Opponent gets 15 damage back from an 8-dice Heal? It happens.

(This comment may sound trite and may be a bitter reaction to what happened to me in a game recently)

Seriously, though:

Step one for designing any book: Consider how you are going to get those attack dice onto your opponent (lots of little creatures? a few big creatures? attack spells? pushing them through walls? buff your mage and charge?)
Step two: Consider how you are usually going to avoid having your opponent's attack dice getting to you (armour? defences? enchantments like Block? using creatures to guard? hiding behind walls?)
Step three: Consider whether there are any types of Mage that your choices in Steps one and two will be weak against, and what options you may need to include for those situations.
Step four: The metamagic game. How are you going to get rid of the opponent's enchantments and equipment. How are you going to ensure they don't get rid of yours? (nullifys, dispels, dissolves and so on)
Step five: Are you going to assert any board control and have freedom of movement (pushes, teleports, walls, tanglevines)

Now just try to stuff all that into 120sbp in a way that your expected mana supply can maintain turn on turn.

Oh, and practice, practice, practice...
 

If you are not hindered you run around the wall until you get to the target. You choose which direction if the distace is the same around it on both sides

But if the Wall has a passage attack the Rager has to run through it, right?

Sounds like we were doing it right, then.

Dammit.

That round about life stealing prevented my Idol doing its usual work, and I lost that game

Hi

I just want to query a situation that emerged yesterday which I think we did right, but just in case we didn't.

My Necro vs a Wizard.

I have an Idol of Pestilence in play.

I put down a Theft of Life on his Gorgon Archer.

He then Steals that Theft of Life and puts it on me.

I put down a second Theft of Life on the Gorgon Archer.

Now, what happens in the Upkeep Phase?

We played it as the following:

His Gorgon Archer takes a damage from the Idol.
It regenerates it.
But my controlled ToL prevents that regeneration and instead heals my mage 1 damage.
But then his controlled ToL prevents my healing and instead heals his mage 1 damage.

Was that the right ordering?

If you're not averse to using promos, the Dragonclaw Wolverine is my favorite pet so far. Super tough, hits like a truck, and makes it tough to attack due to rage.

Otherwise, I've been a big fan of the shoalsdeep croc as a pet as well.

Not averse to promos, but I’ve never seen any find their way here to Australia. (Unless I am willing to pay the extortioners on ebay)

I can confirm that a Pet Ram is quite fun. Calling out ‘Baaaaaa!’ as it bunts the enemy mage through a Wall of Thorns is very satisfying.

Thanks for the quick responses, all!

Sounds like it is a qualified 'maybe, but...'

I'll have to give it a go and see how it travels.

If you are Dazed you need to roll 7+ in order to successfully make the attack.

If you do roll 7 or more, you spend the mana for the attack spell and roll your attack dice.

If you roll 6 or less, you spend the mana for the attack spell but do not get to roll your attack dice.

For this reason it is often best to do something else with your mage if it is Dazed.

I did not think you could use the discount from the Ring or Cape on the second or third Legionnaire.

The Legionnaire card seems pretty unequivocal that you may pay 4 mana to summon an additional copy of the spell, not that you are casting that second copy (noting that  ‘casting’ is central to the Signet Ring’s or Commander’s Cape’s power).

It is like extending a wall, from my reading. You cast one section, but can then place a further section as part of the same action. You do not cast that second section.