[Scott Hebert]

Originally posted by Zen:
All it takes is one spell to make TC totally ineffective in their area of speciality. Magic Duel. Take that and you can take out high gold mages by the dozen with a 50% of success with sages/vaetti and any other number of 1 astral mages. Witch Hunters, Pythium, Rlyeh and any other number of nations can neutralize them fairly easily.

Since this is not a problem endemic to TC, but rather to Magic Duel, that suggests an imbalance issue with the Duel, not TC. That is to say, TC may be unbalanced, but it is Magic Duel that unbalances it. Therefore, any change should be made to Magic Duel, since this is not the only place where Magic Duel is warping the game (Pretender selection comes to mind).