Planet rebirth:

All land on the map is converted to fertile land, natural resources that can be upgraded are automatically done.  (silver to gold, coal to diamond, mithril to adamantine)  Any "corrupted" places return to healthy land.  Any neutral monster layers that can be captured, become the allignment of the player casting the spell.  All friendly units are healed to full health and upgraded to elite vetran (or whatever the highest exp level for standard troops) and gain a random positive enchantement. 

Has a 15% chance that instead of doing the above effects, it will transform into another spell upon casting:  Cataclysm - All players lose the game (unless there is a 2nd world or something, which might be protected from the effects, in which case the map upon which the spell was cast is wiped clean of units, cities, resources, ect. and replaced with an empty unfertile map)

It's been discussed so much here, it took me forever to realize you might think I didn't know about it.

Do I sense a spell of mastery, by any chance?....... with a few small modifications, it would be perfect. Namely, that the spell would cease if you got killed:

By making the entire world nice through your magic, you make the enitre world DEPENDANT on your magic.

the point was to revert everything.  Not just effect the land, but all water, life, and wind of the situation.  The cataclysm (as I understand it) destroyed everything (not just the land).

The goal was to have a basically "I win" spell (because it should be near impossible to cast) but such power comes with a price.  The original cataclysm (as I understand it) was caused by abusing magic.  So, this spell would have a chance to cause a 2nd cataclysm.

Perhaps we should add to Planet rebirth "all areas under caster's influence becomes properous, and all other areas have a very high chance of spawing a natural disaster like "earthquake" "volcano" and such as that.  The only reason I didn't add that the first time is I didn't want it to act as a scorched earth spell (that destroys the enemy land so much you can't really use it when you claim it as your own).   I was hoping that it would feel like all 5 elements by having random enchantments thrown on everything.

I should also add "reveals the entire map" as a wind effect.  "doubles food production in friendly states" for life, "increases wind and sea travel" and perhaps a few other global enhancements.    "Stops bad weather effects" is another.

(scoutdog can call it the "spell of mastery" if he likes.   In fact, I might too.  I was not intending it to be the spell of mastery exactly, which was a 'universal' spell, rather this one would require high levels is ALL elements, which would be a lot harder to pull off.  If it has a different name though, nobody can claim it is a rip off.  If it has the same name, even if it acts nothing like the original, people will claim it to be a rip-off)

@Kitkun:  I was joking.   I think most people on the forums know who you are  (even if only as "that foxy lady" or "the person with a fox on every post")

Anyways, I'm all for huge late-game FU spells. Perhaps one so powerful it simply wipes a portion of the map away entirely, forever. As in, miniature black hole kind of thing.

"Universal spell" sounds like a spell that uses all four (or five, whatever) elements. Care to explain the difference?

Having the magic shards give different mana just like nodes in Age of Wonders seems worse then getting just "mana" that works for whatever spellschool you got like in Age of Wonders 2 and AoW: Shadow Magic.

Having multicolor spells might work but the backside is that people would feel shoehorned in taking f.e Air & Fire for Fireballs that fly extremely far instead of something weaker like Air & Earth for stones & rocks that fly far.

We first need to know if they will keep the magic shards giving different mana or if they'll do it the AoW: Shadow Magic way.

I believe the Shadow Magic way is superior. Having Fire magic and finding air and earth shards is a bit of a downer 

I've also been thinking for the spell Cosmic Rain it would be cool if the 4 meteors changed the terrain of their impact zones. Where the water / ice meteor makes a arctic tundra landscape the iron / titanium meteor makes a rocky / mountainous landscape, etc, etc. 

Summons?  Not sure how summons are going to be designed in this game.  I only assume that there will be summons.  But an enchanted army or super-units could be a multi element comprised.  Just have to figure out how each element would be used.  IE in making different unit types or making mostly a single type of unit but with more elemental originated abilities.  Hmmm maybe a certain card game could trigger some ideas...

How about this spell?

reset button

Press this in case of impending defeat, reverts back to turn 1

//Executed by saving the game at the start and loading....//

HAHAHA

They've been listed, it's the four basics plus life bit.

BARA - A barrier akin to prismatic wall, only a barrier against anything. Whether that means in or out I guess would have to be balanced, as well as the barrier's size.

Transport city - uproots a city and moves it.  Whether or not it comes back down nicely ... again subject to balance since realisticly could effectively destroy two cities that way.  Hmmm, first time I ever thought as Dalaran as a weapon.

Wish - hard to impliment i know. And Dom3 had an interesting way.  Not sure if I like the one word guess or multiple choice.  Just a matter of time or modding that the mystery of one word guesses are no longer guesses and risk vs. reward concerns.  BUT I think it's a good creative outlet if someone wants to include it eventually, and for those that won't cheat, interesting results.

(More of a mental note if I get into modding myself: to do a survey of single words that people would guess with. No spell ideas or descriptions just single words to get an idea what player will use in-game.  Spell effects are up to the modder.)