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Umrag wrote:

I plan to make a Myth wizard who is going to be mostly a PVP player. I was wondering if any of you knew a good combo of spells from other schools?
Here are my ideas: Up to Tower Shield in Ice (5 points)
Up to Weakness in Balance (3 points)
Up to Feint in Death (7 points)
Spirit Blade and Spirit Trap (2 points)
According to my calculations, those are all the points you get. Is this a good combination, or does it need to change?

Thats quite good but if i was a myth wizard here is what i would do.

Up to Tower Shield in Ice. (5 points)
Up to Feint in Death. (7 points)
Spirit Blade. (1 point, don't bother getting spirit trap, no one traps in pvp)
And that should leave you with 4 points to spare. Invest those in life and when the Celestia update comes out which will most likely bring an extra 3 training points, you'll be bale to get satyr which will be great in 1v1. If you plan on doing group matches with life then go with your plan but where spirit trap is, get infection and use a talisman of disorder amulet.

You don't take feint as a myth wizard, assuming you make it to 50, orthus will use the feint for his first attack leaving the his second attack (the one that does good damage unmodified).

In my opinion, you play an outlast strategy, get a cyclops minion out, make sure it lives and you're shielding correctly. Then drop the earthquake/orthus bomb, and eventually they'll die. My suggestion for points would be as follows:

Ice to Tower (5)
Life to Satyr (7)
Balance to Weakness (3)
Reshuffle (1)

and then...
Spirit Blade (1)
Spirit Trap (1)

or Fire to Fire Elf (2)

Since earthquake strips people of their buffs, debuffs like infection and traps have a somewhat limited effectiveness.

Seems like an improvement from your first post. There are a few things I would personally change, but everyone's different. The only pet I would use is cyclops, and I wouldn't have any buff minion cards it's a wasted turn to buff your minion damage in comparison with buffing yourself or shielding (instead, try Time of Legend, as both you and your pet receive this damage boost). I wouldn't train storm shield, you already have towers and the storm/fire shield you get in ice as a result of tower. I would put more shield minion cards in there, I would also add weaknesses, stuns, pierces, and cleanses. The pierces mess up the treasure tower users, the cleanses mess up feint/hex for balance and any other school that goes to feint and you use your stun after your first orthus/earthquake to stall for more pips to finish. A good kill strat would be... wait until you have 2 spirit blades + 2 Myth blades, 12-13 pips, and your opponent isn't 2 myth/tower shields deep, then you orthus, after orthus you stun, then you orthus again, at that point they'll be low, and your stun just bought you an extra turn to gain pips for some sort of finisher. Take the death stuff out of your deck, it's a massive waste of pips. I prefer using pips to heal rather than cast out of school damage. At level 50 most of your pips are power pips, if you compare, you use up to 8 myth pips for a 4 pip death spell that goes relatively buff-less (only spiritblade/trap will buff it from your own spells). I'd rather orthus, even without traps and blades, any damage is pressure and pressure makes your opponent heal and play defense giving you more room to set things up.

On a side note, death is good because of the massive amount of buffs it can put up for damage when it's your main school, otherwise the damage is relatively low for its spells. 4 out of school pips for 350 damage (more likely 240 or lower in arena) to heal for 175 (120 in arena). Or just a flat 4 out of school pips for 860 healing in the life school (in my opinion is much better).

On another side note, pressure is why wild bolters do so well, a first turn wild bolt puts the opponent so far behind it's nearly impossible to catch up, other than the first turn, the lightning/fire shield should be the first shield you put up, regardless, and then I just laugh at wild bolters who waste 5 turns fizzling to when a lightning shield is up. Just play like they always have a wild bolt in their hand (which they do) and turtle.

Here would be what I would personally do:

6 Cyclops Minion
4 Shield Minion
2 Reshuffles
4 Tower Shields
4 Storm/fire shields
4 Death/myth shields
5 Myth blades
3 Spirit blades
4 Weaknesses
2 Time of Legend
3 Cleanse
3 Stun
3 Pierce
3-4 Earthquake
4 Orthus
4 Sprite
3 Pixie
2 Satyr

My entire sideboard would either be Tower Shields or Orthus. This may be too many cards, with reshuffle you can short stack your deck, take out all the Orthus and maybe 1 of every card to make it more likely that you can draw what you need when you need it. Putting Orthus in the sideboard can let you maximize the amount of good utility cards in your hand without having to hold onto orthus, (typically you hold some shields, heal cards, blades, so they can be used to respond to your opponent). The 1v1 in this game on the top level is pretty much chess with utility cards, and then opportunistically taking advantage of turns when your opponent's trying to set something up.

On a tangent. Whenever you see a storm, you put up storm shield right away. When fire, you wait until they blade or trap, and then around 6 pips (3 power pips) you shield, fire's tricky with dots, but most of them want to helephant you with their buffs up. Some of the time, especially against balance you'll both be at full pips, he'll time his blades and buffs near full pips, and then you mess him up by holding onto a cleanse for his feint and then earthquake his buffs away, he won't judgement unless he's got buffs up. At that point he'll be under serious pressure, he's got full pips that are wasting, and no shields or buffs so he won't waste 7 turns to do a 700 damage judgement (because I'll have tower shield up), so he has to wait. Meanwhile while you've been playing good defense with shields and weaknesses, keeping your pet up and your health topped off, this is the best opportunity to get any damage into him, Orthus. Then he'll waste his pips on healing, and will be catching up the rest of the game and he'll lose. Balance is easy to beat, I've played a balance up to 1400 at level 28 with no wild bolts, and the people who you beat either don't play good defense, or don't put out any pressure, balance is a 1 trick pony, and when you learn what they do, they go down pretty easy.