Mika,

If you play with only the core box, or a few expansions, you should simply enjoy yourself and play with a fire mage.  The problems initiated with the release of more expansions. With each new expansion, the Wizard gained more tools and became more overpowered. Especially with the release of the Siren, things would have gone out of control. The Siren is a water based mage and the wizard would have been able to use all her tricks. The Wizard was perfectly balanced IN the core box itself.

Only if you want to play competitive with the entire cardpool you should really consider the errata. I for one am VERY happy they did these changes.

Agree with all. Really. And thanks for your words, amigo Halewijn. I hope we will get many new players in Spain (languaje is a big deal here) after the spanish edition, and I will have no problem to teach / play against all them with my Core Box. But dunno, for me MW was perfect beacuse the concept of a 'Closed Game'. Well balanced, and with no the obligation to "subscribe" all months to get the last powerful cards... Definitely has been the biggest change I've seen in the game.

I'm sorry that you disagree with our approach to this issue.
Thank you for taking the time to express your thoughts on this matter.

No. Thanks to you for your kind answer and sorry for my reaction.

Simply I don't understand why all the other people is so happy with this change, but maybe I have to think twice about the good things that will come in the future thanks to this radical errata...

About my feelings with MW:

Rated with a 10 in BoardGameGeek. No discussion about this; simply a masterpiece in my opinion.

I bought the Core Box in 2014. And start learning to master only 2 mages:
(because I'm not collector, neither completist)

Priestess was for me the 1st option. Holy School, angels, the Light... nice! Was a "kind mage" to play vs newbie players, using Guard Angels, defending myself. Lot of Epic games (vs Necromancer) were made with my little princess.

Fire Wizard was my Top One. My strong mage to deal vs Forcemasters, Warlocks & Wizards in really hard battles with agressive strategies.

I left playing MW for some months awaiting the spanish edition. Some days ago, I noticed about the inminent release of DEVIR Edition in November and cheering up to "card players" (Magic, Netrunner, AgoT) to give it a chance playing it vs me.

After posting my feelings about the future of MW in Spain in a spaniard dedicated forum, another user warned to me about the "nerf of the Wizard"... Came back to AW Forum and discover that was true... and everybody happy!

And now?

Have to discard the Fire Wizard. A well thought Spellbook, now is useless, cause lot of spells/equipments are now so expensive. Obviously trained in Wind School has no chance against a FM.

The Priestess, - at least one year ago -, definitely was not an opponent vs Forcemaster or Not-Wind-Wizard, so need another TOP mage. And not very sure if in the future not will see another big "errata" with those TOPs. So atm, I feel sad, and unmotivated with one of my all time favourites games.

Thats all. Sorry if I'm not so happy as most of the users. But Wizard was the versatile option, and now I feel a little bit "forced" to learn to play at least 2-3 more mages.

P.D. Sorry for my english.

Like the "Bind Spirit" -Fast Attack with a big creature vs Holy Mages was the best tact-, and the "Life Link" too.

Still awaiting a "Holy Armor" lvl 1.

Nop. But tonight was my 1st duel vs a forum kindly mate.

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That's insane. That leaves you no room for Teleports and Banish.
2 of each if more than sufficient.

Maybe in your game group... we are Xtrem players, check the Warlock's Book before commented.

40 points, a third of my Book, with Incantations:
6x Dissolve (12)
6x Dispel (12)
2x Seeking Dispel (4)
2x Teleport (8 )
2x Purify (2)
2x Minor Heal (2)

And killed by a combination of Curses & hard Attacks (no the useless Pillar of Light / Blinding Flash) which are really cheap for a Warlock / Fire Wizard... the Tournament's typical mages.

He did say that was how many Curses were in the book, but never said anything about how many were played onto the Priestess...

2 Ghoul Rot on me *1 discarded with 1 of my 2 Purify
1 Poisoned Blood on me *discarded with 1 Dispel
1 Nullify to protect from Dispel on me *1st card was a Decoy, destroyed with my Seeking Dispel
1 Chains of Agony (never revealed, I was stopped in Mohktari, the Great Tree zone)
2 Attacks of Fire (Flameblast) - I had the Dragonscale, 2 copies *1 Dissolved
1 Magebind on me
1 Burn marker always on me thanks to Adramelech's Torment *Dissolved (never discarded, always 2 or 1 burn damage in the upkeep check)
1 Drain Life (final Attack)
+
1 Battle Forge *destroyed by Brogan, with 3 (!) round attacks -horrible dices, btw-
1 Agony on my Guardian Angel -1 Attack dice-
1 Death Link on my Guardian Angel (never revealed)
1 Enfeeble on my Knight Brogan -Slow-
1 Encharters Wardsonte *destroyed by my Angel with Cheetah Speed, after Dispel the Agony -Fast-
1 Wall of Bones protecting the Wardstone from my Royal Archer in Mohktari's zone

He played nice, and I did all that I could. Underpowered vs Dark Mages, believe me; yesterday I fall again, but this time vs a Beastmaster in a long & funny duel, with nice battles of Angels vs Tarok & Falcons, and my chanpion Brogan vs lots of Wolves... I surrender when my Priestess was alone vs too many Creatures, but at least I had my chance to win. Not this time, and pretty sure neither vs the Blasting Banker.

Also, Purify is great against Ghoul Rot and Poisoned Blood.

2x Purify always in my Book. Agree. But he had 4 copies of each Poisoned Curses...
Dark Magic has better Spells, thats my point of view.

Yeah! And only for 6 points on my Book; Just removing 2 Guardian Angels,
and I will be safe... or better I will remove all my Angels and take a pair of "Purges".

Thats exactly what I'm asking; If Holy is a Defend school, provide "defend spells" at reasonable cost!

Why release 18 Mages if all we know that "solitaire play" with Warlock & Wizard is the best option?

Priestess = Sacerdotisa
Priest = Sacerdote
Paladin = Paladín
Siren = Sirena

Alquimista, Hechicero, Brujo, Nigromante, Mago, Druida, Señor de las Bestias, Ocultista, Vidente, Oráculo,...

Understood. Better a pair of "Wand of Healing" in our Book...

Very kind of you, sIKE