Biomancy/Earth spells tiers 1 - 8

[jamoecw]

Wiki:
Wellspring of Life

Circles: Earth, Biomancy
Descriptor: Healing
Tier: 4
Research Cost: 1000
Casting Cost: 300
Power Increase Cost: -
Area of Effect: Single City
Duration: Persistent
Maintenance Cost: 2 Mana Per Turn
Spell Resistance: -
Allows Savings Throw: -
Applicable Saving Throw: -
Saving Throw Effect: -
Effect: City Buff
Increase Effect: -

The healing powers of Earth are called upon to create a Wellspring of Life. As long as the upkeep is paid, any army ending its turn in the target city will have its units healed of all damage and negative effects.

Forums:
Nature's Cures discussion here

Circles: Earth? / Biomancy
Description: Restores all units in a targeted stack to full health.

Farmer's Resolve discussion here

Circles: Earth / Biomancy
Description: Increase the food production of enchanted city by 15%.

Veins of Power discussion here

Circles: Earth / Mentalism or Biomancy
Description: Enchanted city produces +1 mana point for each tile of mountain in its area of influence. (this spell has no upkeep cost)

Roots of Power discussion here

Circles: Earth / Mentalism or Biomancy
Description: Enchanted city produces +1 mana point for each tile of forest in its area of influence. (this spell has no upkeep cost)

Stream of Power

Earth/Mentalism or Biomancy
Enchanted city produces +1 mana point for each tile of river in its area of influence. (this spell has no upkeep cost)

Natural Power

Circles: Earth / Biomancy
Description: Enchant a city to draw +X power (mana) from a terrain type chosen at the time of casting.

Hardy Souls discussion here

Circles: Earth / Biomancy
Description: Desert and Tundra tiles in enchanted city's area of influence produce +1 food and +1 production.

Earthbind discussion here

Circles: Earth / Biomancy
Description: Enchanted creature loses flying.

Brambles discussion here

Circles: Earth / Biomancy
Description: Target map tile is filled with brambles. Squares affected by brambles have movement cost of 4. Additionally any non-flying unit occupying or entering the tile takes physical damage. Maintaining a patch of brambles costs 1 mana/turn.

Earth to Mud via circle change discussion here

Circles: Earth / ?
Description: Change a 5x5 area of the battlefield to mud, slowing all non-flying/floating units.

Conjuration discussion here

Circles: Earth / Summoning
Description: All summoned creatures you control gain [some bonus] in battle.

Living Mine discussion here

Circles: Earth / ?
Description: If cast on a mine makes it work without needing workers, spewing out production in exchange for mana upkeep.

Living Mine MK2 discussion here

Circles: Earth, ?
Description: Creates a handful of living mines hidden in the battlefield. Enemies that enter their tiles are attacked as the mine erupts, causing rock fragments to hurl on the unit. Each mine disappears after one use.

Dust to Dust discussion here

Circles: Death, Summoning
Description: Unit creation spell. Gathers up the dust of corpses from all around the land and forms it into an undead mass. Counts as a swarm unit that attacks by enveloping units and trying to suffocate them in itself.

Gaia's Blessing via circle change discussion here

Circles: Earth / ?
Description: Increase the Growth stat of the surrounding tiles, thus increasing the max pop of the target city.

Nature's Bounty via circle change discussion here

Circles: Earth / Augmentation
Description: All resources on tiles you control provide double their bonus.

Untamed Wilds discussion here

Circles: Earth / Augmentation
Description: Forests, jungles and swamps start spreading slowly consuming all-non ocean terrain squares. All animal and earth units gain a bonus to their attack, defense and saves. Additionally wild game has a chance to spawn on any forest square near your city that doesn't already have one.

Notes: I like large scale terraforming spells but this also makes earth units stronger and adds wild game to offset the food production you might lose from the loss of plains. Could be biomancy too.

Impassable Terrain alternate here

Tactical - 4x1 tiles become impassable

Strands of Power

Strategic - Target City gains +1 Power for each _named_ terrain in its radius

Natures Cures

Strategic - Target stack gains full HP

Transmute

Strategic - Alter target Ore

Great Harvest

Strategic - All your Cities produce +15% food.

Unchanging World

Strategic - disallow any terraforming

Web

(Tactical, immobilizes for 2 turns, drops flying)

Alter Terrain

(Strategic, lowers/raises terrain)

[ampoliros]

The Wellspring pitch on the Wiki seems weak for Tier 4 to me. If it's gonna stay Tier 4 I propose it heals/cures all friendly units within the City's radius.

T1 - Earth to Mud - T - 5x5 tiles slow non-floating/flying
T1 - Impassable Terrain - T - 4x1 tiles become impassable
T2 - Hardy Souls - S - Target City produces +1 Food per Desert/Tundra
T2 - Strands of Power - S - Target City gains +1 Power for each _named_ terrain in its radius
T3 - Natures Cures - S - Target stack gains full HP
T4 - Wellspring - S - Target City heals/cures all units within its radius
T5 - Transmute - S - Alter target Ore
T6 - Great Harvest - S - All your Cities produce +15% food.
T7 - Unchanging World - S - disallow any terraforming
T8 -

That's all I got from Jamo's list and the transfers from Augmentation.

What I mean with Strands of Power is to combine all the _____ of Power spells in the suggestions. The caster will _name_ one terrain type when casting the spell.

[Hoverdog]

All that talk about terraforming and you haven't included a single terraform spell :P
To be honest, I'd seperate Alter Terrain into two spells: Lower and Raise. However, they should be at the same tier, and they're too powerful for the 1-2, the only tiers to have more than one spell in a combination. Any ideas?

Tier 1: Earth to Mud (T, 5x5 tiles slow down), Impassable Terrain (T, 4x1 tiles become impassable)
Tier 2: Wellspring of Life (S, immediately heals units inside the city), Strands of Power (S, +1 power per terrain type)
Tier 3: Web (T, immobilizes for 2 turns, drops flying)
Tier 4: Transmute (S, alters ore)
Tier 5: Alter Terrain (S, lowers/raises terrain)
Tier 6: Great Harvest (S, all cities produce more food)
Tier 7: Unchanging World (S, blocks terraforming)
Tier 8: Nature's Cure (S, heals all your units)

[ampoliros]

I like how you re-worked Strands of Power.
Your list looks fine to me.

Why wouldn't raise/lower be on the same spell? It makes sense to me.

[Happerry]

How is Transmute a Biomancy spell?

[Troy_Costisick]

Tier 1: Earth to Mud (T, 5x5 tiles slow down), Impassable Terrain (T, 4x1 tiles become impassable)
Tier 2: Wellspring of Life (S, immediately heals units inside the city), Strands of Power (S, +1 power per terrain type)
Tier 3: Web (T, immobilizes for 2 turns, drops flying)
Tier 4: Transmute (S, alters ore)
Tier 5: Alter Terrain (S, lowers/raises terrain)
Tier 6: Great Harvest (S, all cities produce more food)
Tier 7: Unchanging World (S, blocks terraforming)
Tier 8: Nature's Cure (S, heals all your units)

+1 to this list and +1 to ampoliros: I agree that raise/lower should be on the same spell.

[jamoecw]

How is Transmute a Biomancy spell?

works with existing substances?

[War Troll]

How is Transmute a Biomancy spell?

'Biomancy draws on the power of both Positive and Negative energies to affect things in the physical world.' Though it seems to be mostly focused on living creatures I guess Transmute falls under the Biomancy umbrella also.

[Happerry]

Fair enough.

+1 for that list then.