• a priestess familiar, maybe like an archangel that can cast holy incantations and attack spells
• some sucide cards like +3 melee but take 3 damage - a blood crazed demon that gains blood thirsty +2 and takes 2 maybe 3 damage
• a creature who's action marker doesn't flip unless you pay mana during your upkeep
• possibly an enchantment that gives an extra quickcast when you reveal it, or maybe a permanent extra quickcast but has a high upkeep cost
• creature that gains life after it destroys another living creature, kinda like it's eating the fallen creature
• goblin or Orc bezerker that has a high attack but little life and no armor and can't gain armor
• a diseased creature that can give rot to anything that attacks it
• a mobile spawn point for the warlord, a siege tower perhaps, can either move 1 or summon a solider. to make up for no Mage specific familiar
• a moat, hinders movement but doesn't block LoS, non-Mage creatures crossing the moat have a chance to drown while crossing on like a 10+ add one to the die roll for each point of armor, slow creatures cannot cross.
• a net/web that acts like a wall for flying creatures and to cross must lose flying until next activation
• suppression zone, enchant zone, creatures cannot fly or use ranged attacks inside zone
• chest piece that gives +3 armor and tough -2
• enchants that give -1 against specific elements and curses that give +1 vs certain elements
• nature attack spells, plants/trees/bugs attack to deal damage
• swarm of bees, incorporeal, full action zone attack, cannot guard
• tranqualizer dart, attack spell that deals some minor dmage but stuns on a 3-10 and on an 11+ sleep, war spell most likely
• a trap that deals some damage and restrains for a few turns
• a javelin that gives a one use ranged attack, maybe an equip that can be used in either hand and is destroyed after use or a creature that comes into play with a javelin token that can be used once
• grappling/ climbing equip that takes both hands, glove, and boot spots but give melee +1 or 2, double strike, and climbing possibly some armor