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Awesome. Ok lets start with the wand. It's ok to dump those wands that give you those extra attacks. Find a wand that will allow you to jab the opponent for no pips.

Since you are in firecat alley, grab an ice wand. Jab with those ice spells.

Three trolls is a great way to start. But don't count out your puppet! He is still great at this level and is free to summon so make good use of it.

Death as a secondary is not a smart way to go for beginning myth. You should have ran for ice first! Or at least balance so you can grab the weakness spell.

Since you will be making good use of your minions, prepare to have longer fights. Also go to the second or third page here to see my Puppet Guide for minions, spells and suggestions on using them in combat.

Try to sell some unneeded stuff and or things that you just cant use and focus on keeping your health up for now. Later levels you can worry about resist and attack boosts. Fight with your minion to divide the opponent. It will make the fights longer, but the end result is greater offensive power.

Go to bazaar and look at available gear for your level. Think about what you want to focus on in terms of health or resist for now and buy that gear. Also sell in bazaar, you usually get more gold that way.

If you do have enough crowns for Dagger heart steel in the shopping district, grab it! Grab it now. That will help a lot.

Thanks for the responses!

I'm short on gold now (due to buying a new deck in hopes I would have more "face up" cards) so I'm not sure what I should do. I think my character is messed up beyond repair.

I'm seriously thinking of scrapping her and starting a death wizard. I won't be dependent on minion cards (that never seem to be "face up" during the first 3 rounds) and I can heal as I do damage.

A shame, really, since myth sounded really appealed to me.

Side question....discarding...what good is it? You can't redraw a new card if you discard..... ?? Example: first round, I have a trap, some 2nd and 3rd rank spells. I really want a minion so I discard my 3rd rank in hopes I can draw a minion. However, now I'm just left with less "face up" cards that what I had before and I can't pick a new one.

Also...pips. At later levels, do people really have to skip 6 or 7 rounds so they can cast a rank 6 or 7 spell? Yikes!

I guess this game's combat system is a bit confusing to me.

By the time you get rank 6 or 7 spells, you will be getting power pips. Power pips count as 2 white pips. So to cast a level 6 spell you only need 3 power pips.

I agree with what someone else said. Look for the best gear you can afford and look often. Sometimes the best gear isn't in bazaar when you are there so go back and look again.

I almost deleted my myth when she was in Marleybone, just could not connect with her. However, I decided to continue to Legendary and now she is one of my favorite wizards to play and really quite powerful. I have all wizards but balance and they are all Legendary so been playing a while :)

About decks, don't always assume bigger is better. Think about how many spells you actually cast in one battle. Running a smaller amount of spells in your deck means your chances of getting what you need when you need it will be much higher.

I started out with death as secondary, bought back my training points and switched it to life and ice (for the tower). Hope this helps! Good luck!

I have a low level myth wizard (my third character, after fire and balance wizards), and had no trouble with Firecat Alley at all.

Some advice:
Use the puppet minion more than the troll minion. True, the troll casts stronger spells and has better health, but he also casts less frequently. That puppet will generally try to throw a rank 1 spell every single round, and varies which school it casts from, meaning that it is far more likely to bypass a foe's resistances than your regular spells are. One tactic I used frequently was letting the puppet attack, while I used Pixie to heal if needed while building up pips for my better spells. Seeing as you have a death secondary, you might use Ghoul the same way, to get a bit of healing as well as an attack.

Keep your wand! Even if you are just using the free thing that you got with your spellbook, that is 6 extra attack cards. Just because they are rank 1 does not make them bad. If you have one of the wands that do 100% accuracy blasts, just make sure that it is of a different school than you are, so it doesn't set your myth traps and blades off. As this kind of wand is invariably 0 pips, you get free attacks from it while you build up pips for your main spells.

Discarding has two major uses.
One, it lets you draw a treasure card from your sideboard - assuming that you loaded some into your sideboard in the first place. It's the fan of golden card backs on the far right side of the screen when you are adjusting your deck.
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Two, if you don't like what you currently have in your hand, it opens up space for drawing further cards and hopefully getting something that you do want on the next turn.

By the way, there is NO deck in the game that will allow you to have more than 6 "face up" cards at a time. None. You get better decks to be able to have more cards in your selection, to be able to have more copies of preferred spells, and to have larger sideboards.

Use red wisps between fights to replenish your health. Save potions for replenishing mana without returning to the Commons, or for emergency healing inside of dungeons.

Speaking of potions, when you go to the Fairgrounds, make sure to talk to Sabrina and get your shield. As a myth wizard, you'll find that you have a number of spells from sources besides Professor Cyrus Drake available to you as you gain levels. She's just the first such trainer.