I was thinking, there are dark areas like the sunken city in wizard city, why not make a whole world like that? ya would get your missions from wraiths, ghouls, banshees, ext. and a certain haydes the dungeons could range from caves, to haunted mansions, and dead forests and ya could get a polymorph for your specific school as soon as ya enter fire=flaming angel storm=triton ice=frost gnome balance=krock myth=minotoar life=satyr death=werewolf (each one gives extra accuracy and resist to your school, but your deck wont change)
as for spells, i was thinking of a darker aproach to them:
Fire: Dark flame, a black fire starts in the middle of the battle, then it grows into a giant shadow of flames, and you can make out to eyes in it, then it falls on the enemy
does about 1300-1600
Ice: Black ice, there is a snow storm going on, then a bunch of ash mixes into the snow flakes, then a dragon arises made from the ashy snow, and breaths ash onto the enemy
does about 1000-1250, and 35% accuracy decrease to all
Storm: Black fin, a giant fish comes out of the ocean in a middle of a storm, and it starts breathing black lightning onto the enemy does 1400 on one enemy and from 100 to 1000 on all other enemies, different damage for each
Balance: Underworld, the egyptian god of death comes out and calls a hoard of spirits to charge the enemies
does about 1150-1300 to all enemies and 25% black mantle on all
Myth: Haydes, the roman(or was it greek?) god of the underworld, aka, the same guy i want to get missions from(hey, ya did it with bartlebe) and commands ceberus(three headed, not like orthose) to attack first, then he breaths fire on the enemy
does about 200, then 1200, and gets rid of all charms/wards, but leaves traps, weakness, and smokescreen/black mantle
Life: angel of death, a black wing guy angel comes down with a scyth and ripps the scyth into the enemies
does 1200 on all enemies, and heals every one for 10% of the damage(yes, a drain for life, but it heals EVERYONE)
Death: Reaper, a pale man with snow white hair and silver colored eyes comes out of the sky and has a sickle with a chain mace on the end, and hits all enemies with the sickle first, then the mace
Does 1000 drain with the scyth(normal 50%), and 200-500 damage that heals all other ally by 20%(yeah, same as angel of death, but life needs a attack that both damages and heals everyone, healing is there job, but they need more attack)
since i am a death wizard i think it would be pretty cool to have a world based on death creatures... and i like the dark idea. make it all look like nightside and sunken city