Sorry to jump in here.. can I ask a Wizard's Tower/Conjuration related quick question?

First off here is the Wizard's Tower.
Wizard's Tower
-Conjuration Tower
-Spellbind, Familiar, Unique, Arcane Mage Only
-Conjuration adds Nonliving, Psychic Immunity, Unmovable
-Nonliving adds Poison Immunity and Finite Life

My question is 'which' conditions apply to a card like Mage Tower.
1. Of course all types of Poisons don't work due to Poison Immunity. (Rot, Weak, Cripple).
2. Slam, Daze in the codex mention 'creature' and since this isn't a creature these wouldn't apply.
3. Burn would apply as the codex says 'Object is on fire'.
4. Stun in the codex mentions 'creature' similarly to Slam and Daze so again it doesn't look like it affects Wizard's Tower but then the rule says 'Cannot affect Conjurations'.

Now if my Stun can't affect conjurations because the codex says 'creature' then what is the purpose of adding this last line 'Cannot affect Conjurations' to the rule. Unless there are Conjuration/Creatures? .. I don't think so.

5. Lets say we had a different Conjuration just like Wizard's Tower with the same exact traits except it was 'Living' which means it didn't get Poison Immunity and Finite Life. Since this conjuration no longer has Poison Immunity theoretically conditions such as rot, weak, cripple could affect it. However looking closer, weak mentions 'creature' so it shouldn't work, rot mentions 'object' so it should work, cripple says 'creature' so again shouldn't work.

Thinking about it logically with rules aside it makes sense for a non living conjuration to be immune to conditions such as rot, weak, cripple, on the other hand it definitely makes sense that a living conjuration would be immune to weak and cripple but susceptible to rot. Thinking about the other conditions such as burn, stun, slam this also makes sense. SO if everything works the way I outlined it.. then why does Stun EXPLICITLY say 'Cannot affect Conjurations'.

6. Corrode, this one nicely states in the codex 'creature or conjuration' hurray!

Thank you!

Same goes to the OFFICIAL Arcane Wonders errata cards Battle Fury, Hand of Bim-Shalla and Temple of Light. The 'official' text on these cards was changed but the text on my physical cards at home most definitely didn't. (sad face) So what prevents me or anyone else from following the old text on the cards when playing? Well the fact that the old text is 'officially wrong' and not legal in official tournament play.

Official haha

I do wish I had a Gravikor though... grrr...

I'm just going to throw this out there.... Ahlano...well... YOU TOTALLY STOLE MR. SHAD0WS AVATAR! SHAME ON YOU!

After I posted my last reply I read over your question again and realized that you aren't deciding between 1 core set or two core sets (which is what my original reply goes into) but rather between 2 core sets versus 1 core set, the two spell tomes, the binders and the action markers.

Well, given you have decidied that you want more than just 1 core set I would 1000000% recommend getting 2 core sets compared to 1 core set, two spell tomes, the binders and the action markers.

Here are the reasons.
1. 2x 'Mage Wars Core Set' is cheaper than 'Mage Wars Core Spell Tome', 'Mage Wars Core Spell Tome 2', 'Mage Wars Spellbook Pack 1' and 'Action Marker Set'.

2. The biggest reason I would recommend the 2x Core sets is because a single Core set comes with 322 Spell cards however the two Core Spell Tomes combined only come with 222 Spell cards. Which means you are actually getting a lot more copies of cards with a 2nd core set.

3. With 2x Core sets you have 2 copies of each of the base mages (Wizard, Warlock, Beastmaster, Priestess). So if you do decide to play with your friends who don't have their own cards you can most definitely play the same mage if you want to.

4. Although as I mentioned in my first post the extra tokens aren't necessary but having them can't hurt either .

5. A second game board! If you plan on playing with more than 3 people this could come in handy.

6. More Dice! (Attack Dice and Effect Die (d12)). When I enter the arena.. the last thing I want to do is share my battle dice with my opponent!

7. I see 2 (very minor) reasons why getting all of the seperate stuff would be beneficial. 1) The spell binders you get look different... (Very minor). 2) The action markers have a different color. (This can be very nice when playing with more than 2 people. VERY nice but comparing this to points 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 this really doesn't matter that much.

Thanks!
Alpha

I have a solid routine now. Wake up, drive to work, get a coffee followed by checking the mage wars forums SPECIFICALLY to see if Mr. Shad0w posted his build and strategy in this post. My excitement goes something like this.

Step 1. Pretty excited although super tired as I sip my coffee and enter www.magewars.com into my browser.

Step 2. I click that Forum button as my excited-ness sky rockets followed by the following.
  a) I see that the 'Spellbook Design and Construction' red ready marker is not flipped to active and I instantly jump to Step 6. (Read the rest of the post first.. don't jump to Step 6 quite yet)
  b) I see that the 'Spellbook Design and Construction' red ready marker IS flipped to active and my heart rate goes to a solid 200. (Note that I'm sitting down...). Lets move to Step 3.

Step 3. THE READY MARKER IS READY. Hit F5 just to make sure I'm not still dreaming. Okay.. still active... lets take a peek at the Last post on the right followed by the following.
  a) Mr. Shad0w was not the last person to reply to a thread... Okay okay my heart rate is down 20 points. My excited-ness is a little down. (I'm crying inside). Maybe there were sooo many posters and Mr. Shad0ws just wasn't the last one. Lets move to Step 4.
  b) Mr. Shad0w IS the last person to reply. ARE YOU SERIOUS. I do a triple front and back flip at the same time so fast that I don't even move in my chair. (Yeah, crazy I know). My heart rate is up another 20. (Is that healthy?). I then notice that last thread he posted in is not Re: Forcemaster Builds.. I feel a sharp pain in the left side of my body. My cheek feels a bit tingly.. but I have to know.. Proceed 5 spaces to Step 4.
  c) Not only is Mr. Shad0w the last person to reply... but the post is Re: Forcemaster Builds. I sprint to my cabinet that is half a meter away from me. I unlock the lock like I'm a thief from ancient days where picklocking was super cool. I grab my mage wars dice (5 of em) and my heart rate goes up by what I rolled times 2 plus 10. (Crits count double). My nose is starting to bleed at this point but who cares! CONTINUE TO STEP 5. I'M ALL IN.

Step 4. I jam my finger down onto that left mouse button clicking the glorious 'Spellbook Design and Construction' button and my hand cramps up followed by the following.
  a) The holy grail that is 'Forcemaster Builds' is missing the red 'new' square. What? no.. really? Awww man... Continue to Step 6.. DAMNIT.
  b) THERE IS A RED NEW SQUARE NEXT TO 'FORCEMASTER BUILDS'.. Yeah... totally knew today was going to be the day where Mr. Shad0w posts his build.. Why did I even doubt him... he totally told us he was going to post the build. I feel bad.. I can't believe I was a non believer. I then realize my heart rate is still maxed out, my nose is bleeding and I can't feel half my body I HAVE to finish this. Proceed with cheetah speed TO STEP 5!

Step 5. I click 'Forcemaster Builds' swiftly click page 11 and with my Stepmania trained fingers click that Page Down key like it's the hardest song I've ever clicked in my life followed... by???!!!!!!! ... There's no build. I twist my ankle and start feeling stomach pains... Step 6 is all that's left for me.. Please proceed .

Step 6. My dreams are shattered. My heart rate stops... what in all the world am I going to do now... WAIT, WHAT IF HE WAS JUST POSTING AS I WAS CHECKING??!! OOHHHH YEEEAAAHHH,,, PROCEED TO STEP 1 BABY!

Dear Mr. Shad0w,

Will you be posting your build and match results any time soon? I'm really curious to see what has changed from your build that was previously posted. I would also be very curious to know which wins and losses were against which mage/strategy and to understand against what kind of things you had problems with.

I've looked over your original deck list many times and in reading your succeeding comments I know about a few cards that you mentioned you usually run with such as Falcon Precision, Mongoose Agility and Teleport but my question is how do you deal with flyers? It seems the obvious answer is that you don't and instead just focus all on the enemy mage. If things get a little out of hand you have various equipments and enchantments to help you such as various armors/cloaks, forcefield, vampirisim and many other things. The problem I see is when faced against not just any flyers but the ones such as Valshalla or Samandriel. The kind that do pretty decent damage but more importantly have a fairly good chance to Daze or Stun you. It would seem Daze and Stun is just as devastating to the Forcemaster as the Weak tokens from the Gorgon Archer are. (Of course you can attack the Archer but based on your decklist you can't really do anything against those daze/stun flyers. Missing or not being able to attack a turn with the Forcemaster seems pretty huge. Not only that but if this happens it gives the opposing mage more time to 'do stuff' which is exactly what we don't want which is why we rush over there to end the game as fast as possible in the first place.

Now if some kind of flyer handling is needed then what do you think would be the best course of action? One route could be the charm, sleep or mind control route, the other could be running maim wings or eagle wings but all of these options take up quite a bit of spellbook points... Of course as you pointed out for your decklist there are only 'some' core spells and the rest are meta but when I built my own version 'based' on your deck I have a hard time deciding what could possibly be worth removing to add in these flyer handling cards.

I would really like to understand what you think about this. Thanks a bunch for your time!

Alpha