9th Age 9th Age Magic builds

[Mr Phat]

A NEW DAWN IS UPON US!

..hmm hmm..

We have gotten so extremely many ways to kite out our magic phase, that I cant
delude myself to think that I have spotted them all myself.

We can do everything from million dollar slann to cheapy skeapy 4 skink priests that support
eachother with aided casting/dispellng.

I would like to see what you guys roll with!
I would also like for you to give it a stamp!
Is your type of investment

HEAVY
MEDIUM
or
CHEAP


I had a game two days ago, where my magic build was as such

I would qualify it as HEAVY investment,
as it costs a total of 995pts (with overlaps on other phases of course )

Anurid High Priest 270 pts
Nature
General
BSB 50
Banner of Diciplin 25
Cognitive Reassurance 60 pts
Veteran of the Dark Wars 50 pts
Tome of Arcane Lore 25 pts

= 480



Heroes:

Skink Priest 60 pts
Wildernes
Dispel Scroll 35
=95


Rare:

Spinosaurus 120 pts
Wizard Conclave (Lvl 2, Amber Spear, Wildform) 60 pts
Spit Poison 30 pts
= 210
Spinosaurus 120 pts
Wizard Conclave (Lvl 2, Amber Spear, Wildform) 60 pts
Spit Poison 30 pts
= 210


(Its so nice we can post point costs now!)

You've seen mine, now show me yours!

 

[Pinktaco]

I'll look more into your post later, but I'm going to make some suggestions to the ABC regarding the triceratop mounted Priests with Godly Engine. I think we could have a viable "monster caster" but it just needs a little push.

 

[Pinktaco]

It's true you invested a lot of points into magic, however you also got quite some great things going there.

If I were you I would've tried to sqeeze in the telepathic discipline. You havec 3 magic beacons and might as well use them to spread the inspiring Presence Besides those monsters can still do some harm with 4 S5 attacks and the mini-thunderstomps.

Also do note that Godly Engine also count as a Magic Beacon.

There is a thing I think we need clarification on:
Do the extra spell arcane item allow us to use it in conjunction with disciplines?

• Can we take all 8 signature spells and add +1 spell to one of the paths?
• Can we add +1 spell to Path of Darkness?
• Can we take alternate way of thinking and add +1 spell to our secondary Path?

IF we are allowed to do so it opens up a lot of option.

Concerning the disciplines we can become the ultimative Dispell Wizard:

• Funnel the Winds
• Cognitive Reassurance

Add enough skink priests as needed and be assured to have:

• +1 Dispel Dice
• +1 To Dispel
• Allowed to reroll first failed dispel attempt

Add Black Cube to remove 1 Power Dice from your opponent.
Because of your superior dispel power you can probably save a dice every once in a while and use it as a power dice.

For added giggles you can add our new magic banner just in case you end up against a Tzeentzh army (+1 To Cast).

The price for this Slann?

435pts without the BSB and magic banner.
540 if you add the BSB and magic banner.

Add two Skink to be guaranteed to get a Dispel Dice every turn and a dispel scroll and we're looking at:
155pts for skink + 540 = 695pts for ridiculous magical dominance

Do note that while we only get +4 on our dispel channel (from the channel) we still do channel on 4+ in our own casting phase.
For added giggles add Binding Scroll (20pts) which deny our opponent to cast the same spell next round.

 

[NIGHTBRINGER]

Concerning the disciplines we can become the ultimative Dispell Wizard:

• Funnel the Winds
• Cognitive Reassurance

This alongside the black cube would be an extremely potent anti-magic setup. I think it would be hard for many opponents to get by that.

 

[Pinktaco]

I actually made a mistake in my previous post. The Slann gains +4 to channel which combined with his own channel (+1) would equal to +5. So we effectively only need 1 Priest. So just a little over 600pts for all of that.

I actually want to try it out because if we can remove our opponents magic phase and still get spells off in our own I see it as just as powerful as having a superior casting phase. I mean the situations are the following:

• No magic from opponent, some from us.

vs

• Some magic from opponent, a lot from us.

They're just two "extremes", however, I suppose when up against Dwarfs it's kinda useless to have invested that much into anti magic