[Sombre]

A 'do not cast unless scripted' checklist would solve this and many other problems. I know we'll probably never see it, but imagine how cool it would be. If you checked the majority of spells on there, you could have unscripted mages choosing from a limited and useful selection - just leave them all the buffs for instance, or the long range spells.

I'm not saying give each mage their own list, just one global list for your nation which you can mess around with each turn would be fine.