Editing The 9th Age Tactics (section)

==My Robe and Wizard Hat==
Magic and the phase is largely covered in [[Paths Of Magic]] but we'll cover the order of operations and dispelling here.  Both players get the same number of dice for each magic phase (for casting and dispelling) but the active player gets veil tokens and can convert them into more dice, so the dispelling player will always be at a dice disadvantage.  So as a reactive player, you will want to pick 1 or 2 spells that you don't want your opponent to cast and blow all of your dice on those.  On magic lite lists it will be easy to shut down their one or two spells, but against magic heavy lists you'll only be able to stop one, maybe two spells.  If your opponent doesn't have any trump spells, spread your dice out and go for a consistent low magic phase, you get to see if the spellcasting succeeded and the total before you declare an attempt to dispell and how many dice you'll use.  Generally, you'll want +1 dice on the average roll to stop a spell (casting total divided by 4 plus 1 die).  Prioritize your dispells, your opponent will almost always have more dice than you and sometimes just throwing all of your dispell dice at one scary spell is the safest choice.