I just got the Lost Grimore and have a question about the Magma Golem. It says burn tokens hurt other creatures in the zone. Does that mean I would roll to see if the burn tokens on the Golem goes out, and if it doesn't I get to choose which creature takes the hit?

I'm honestly pumped about 4 new Academy mages.  I love playing arena but Academy is so much fun. I ffind the Academy cards are also really useful so I'm hoping they'll up my Arena game too.

Can't wait!

So the Invisible Stalker seems to be the Force master's go to creature for me, but I would like to buff it. What cards work well with it? I know the Stalker would have to attack something before my mage could enchant it, but it seems most enchantments are for living creatures. Anyone have a combo that works well?

I got the Force master v Warlord expansion and it could es with a familiar for the warlock that is a piece of equipment. It says if I hit a creature with it it can cast a curse spell as a free action. Does that mean the familiar can still cast a spell on it's own without my mage needing to hit anything?

Thanks for the tips friends.  I'm going to throw something together, and from there I'm guessing it's going to be some trial and error.  One way or the other, it's still going to be a blast though.

Okay, so I tried out my first book and got schooled by Romeoxero as Reddicediaries looked on.  It was still fun.  They gave me a lot of good tips when it came to building, but I'm still having trouble narrowing my focus.  I have a few ideas for books, but I don't know which mages would work best for the strategies I want to try since I only have the core Arena set ( I have all of the Academy ones though) and I don't know if these would even be possible.

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.

Supplements would be cool, like small chunks of cards like Netrunner does. Packs of 60 cards that are like $15.  IMO, unless it's Magic, Pokemon, or Yu-gi-oh, there isn't really a huge base for most card games.  I see Fantasy Flight ones around, but that's because they are located in the city where I live so there is a base for that due to geography. 

And I always step back and try to imagine a company with a game this complex that consists of 3 people, plus they are also publishing other games.  I don't know about you, but it takes me a long time just to build a book, never mind trying to create new designs while promoting the old ones. 

Wait, genius thought, we totally need to make a Mage Wars cartoon (Netflix would totally buy it), create a catchy J-Pop theme song, and come up with some cute mascot that can only say it's own name.  Once we get that going, the game will explode!