Alright- Here is my solution.

Take a mage card

Put it in a "penny sleeve"

Draw over mage cards with marker.

You can also draw new cloths or accessories to really compliment you mage. Wish you mage had a new staff? Draw it. Want your Beastmaster to have a runny nose? Just take a green sharpie and make your wildest dreams come true.

That should make everybody happy. I've singlehandedly solved the issue- Your all welcome.

You can ignore LoS when placing vines so long as "the Druid may place a new Vine marker in her zone.
Or, she may instead place that marker in a zone, or adjacent to a zone, containing a Vine marker she controls

For casting creatures and conjurations with the Vine subtype- you need LoS to the vine marker you are targeting.

(Sorry for the edit- hit post to early!)

Ok- I've got to get this off of my chest- Due to your oping line- I read the whole post in the voice of Rod Serling as he narrated in the twilight zone.  Not even a joke....

Yeah- looks like a completely solid build to me. I dont think you could go wrong here.

Personally- I can imagine not using Thoughtspores in my FM builds- but thats just a personal thing....I love that card.

(Also- I am curious to see how your game went! )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTLwiccIOxI

How about we all enjoy this song that makes me think of Shad0w.

Good point Aylin  - I myself would run Wand of Healing, even with the chance of desolve.

Yeah!  Your welcome!

I really do hope that some simple aesthetic changes might help you in getting them to play: and even tell them that its something that AW is taking very seriously. Because they are. It has been talked about-trust me.

And I can understand their feelings, but I hope that 4-8 cards wouldn't stop them from playing an amazing game such as magewars.

You really could use just about anything to represent your mage. That could be part of the fun for them to get into it. Just tell them that their allowed to do so. (Which, technically they are for home games)

First I am going to saw that the necros base spell book is one of the most strait forward book to run- its (And this is a technical term) RARW ZOMBIES!!!

But seriously, I have noticed that the base necro book is a good one, and its hard to go wrong when playing it.

For the overall necro- Yes, he is powerful- but in my many, many matchups with him, I have found many tricks that shut him down.

First off- he is stretched thin for mana- those hoards dont cast themselves! Since the necro spends most of his mana (And actions) summoning and getting out his spawnpoints; in the early game, he is offten left unequiped, and even twords the late game, he is usually very unenchanted when compared to most mages. And this is not a side effect of play style, its something that comes from swarming with the necros medium costed creatures. (You can supper equip/enchant the necro just fine- but his swarms will suffer)

Another thing is that the necro can really easly be "The odd man out" or targeted easily. Its not hard to separate him from his creatures. And I would say that the best chance that a forcemaster would have it to push everything else away, and keep the necro held with something like force crush.

Cast tangle vine, teleport, force crush, ANYTHING to keep the necro away from his creatures. A necro with Alter of the Iron Guard and zombies poping up all around him is a VERY tough opponent indeed.

Another way that he is easily targeted is by a Wizard. IMO the wizard is the perfect Necro counter. He can just blast spells from afar and keep pressure on the necro- causing the necro to change his plans and really mess with his strategy. Wizards tower can even flank him, causing his zombies to slowly shamble in different directions, which makes them much easer to pick off.

And with the beastmaster- He can enchant his creatures; the necro cant. Buff a bear with Bear Strenth and lions savagery, eagle wings and maybe a defence and have it hover over the necro for the game, and even with skeletal archers and attack spells- you should have one dead necro on your hands.

TL;DR- the necros creatures are slow (Lumbering!) if they are resilient and he can be easily "Sniped" by mages with attck spells.

The necro focuses so much time and mana of getting those swarms; he often leaves himself unequipped and unenchanted.

The necro cannot enchant his undead creatures.

Really its hard to confront the necro head on- but with some range, and lots of tricks, he should be defeated with a little effort.