Interesting. I have never run as many as 4 dissolves in a deck, because I have a hard time justifying spending so many actions on equipment removal. If my opponent spends that much mana on equipment, it is often easier just to overpower him with more creatures+Conjurations instead of trying to remove Equipment.

The one time where removal is absolutely necessary is Mage Wand + Teleport. Everything else can be played around or brute forced through, but repeated Teleports are pretty close to GG against Druid.

One huge advantage that Orchids provide is that they don't have to use one of your Mages actions. Orchids can be deployed via seedpod or Vinetree, freeing your other two actions for other things.

Basic internet gaming common sense:

1) No "pseudo random number generator" (PRNG) is truly random. With sufficient information about the programming of any given PRNG code, you could predict the pattern of random numbers rolled. This principle has been used repeatedly to steal money from online poker sites. (Therefore, in the modern day they take great efforts to use good PRNG algorithms and difficult to predict seeding)

2) That said, the probability of encountering a "strange" roll is extremely high. Anyone who's played enough tabletop games with real dice knows that you see really weird/frustrating rolls all the time. Randomness is random, and that means that you see "uncommon" results quite often. For example, the probability of getting one specific "strange" rolls may be 1:100 million against, but if there are a million different rolls that the human brain interprets as "strange", then you'll see a strange roll every 100 rolls.

3) Given #1 and #2, when you see a weird online dice roll it is impossible to tell whether it is a bug in the code, or simply a "strange" outcome (that would have happened with truly random dice). Most of the time it is probably #2, but this can never be 100% proven.

Having seen it in action I can attest that the Grizzly Wizard is in fact a VERY strong build. However, it tends to have more mana issues than other Wizards, which became an issue in my game against Nick's grizzly wizard. Also, with lots of points spent in out of school cards, you can run out of cards in the late game. Ideally, you want to win the game quickly with the bear. In longer games, a higher-channeling Wizard build or a curse-heavy Warlock build can fare very well against this one.

#1: Steve Walters Earth Wizard - slow paced control build with Wizard Tower and Gorgon Archer, used wall of thorns + force push for major damage, but was very heavily defensive, won multiple rounds on tiebreakers
#2: Dave Chang (me) Curse Warlock - mid-paced debuff build, heavily reliant on enchantment and incantation damage instead of attacks.
#3: Tim McCurry (Zot) Air Wizard - slow paced control build with Wizard Tower and Gorgon Archer, used wall of thorns + force push plus thunderbolt wand for massive stun chance. Very defensive, reached tiebreakers several times.
#4: Nick Tinko Earth Wizard - double-bear (bear strengthed bear) Beatdown in early game followed by hurl boulders and stuff. Used turn to stone to prevent opponents from fighting bear with other high level creatures.

Quicksand is (in most circumstances) vastly more efficient against creatures, but it cannot be played on Mages. Spike Pit is amazing against Mages, especially if you get the opportunity to Push an enemy Mage into your spike pit.

Also, Spike Pit's positional nature is sometimes really nice.

The "animal" keyword really seems to mean "creatures that can be turned into a BM Pet". They are animals that are sufficiently warm and fuzzy to fall in love with a Mage, as opposed to a heartless monster like the spider or hydra.

Twilight Struggle is already a board game!
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12333/twilight-struggle

I like Vampiresses and I have both played, and played against buffed-vampiress Warlock strategies. The main problem (which you already stated in the OP) is any sort of creature-control heavy deck. Each round that your Vamp spends Charmed or Force Held or Banished is a round where your opponent can swing a helluva lot more damage dice than you can. By spending all your mana summoning and supporting Vamps, you will have less of an equipment-enchantment stack on yourself, compared to most other Warlock builds.

Forcemasters can be a problem for any Warlock build. In the early game you don't float enough mana to toss multiple Drain Souls. I would strongly consider including an Enfeeble to lock down the FM while you and your Vamp walk around killing her battleforge, hand of bimshalla, and any other conjurations she has in play. Actually, Enfeeble is such a mana-efficient counter to any melee-heavy build in the game, that I try to run at least 2 of them in every Warlock deck that I play. (and if the other guy uses all of his dispels on enfeeble, now my ghoul rots and agonies are sticking)