Perhaps I have not looked in the right place, but I cannot find a description of the effect of the Melt spell.
Can someone explain it to me?
It's a dispel. It makes the next Ice spell fizzle 100% of the time. It also takes away the caster's pips, if the Ice spell took 1 or more pips to cast.
For example, if I wanted to cast Blizzard but got an Ice dispel on me, I will fizzle and lose 4 pips.
I think that is the spell you can cast on an enemy, particularly one that uses ice spells. After you use it on them, it will dispel the next ice spell they cast, whatever it is. Their next ice spell will automatically fail, but not being a fizzle, it will cost them the pip cost, 0 for a Tower shield, 2 for Ice Snake, 1 for a Steal, 4 for Blizzard, etc. After the dispel has been triggered once, it is used up and gone.
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Melt is a rank 2 Ice Spell which is free to train by aspiring thamaturges at about the early adept level. When used on an opponent, the spell causes the opponent to fizzle upon using an ice spell. I should note that no matter the accuracy, the Melt which is a type of dispel card will cause the opponent to fizzle 100% of the time.
To add, if you're able to time the use of this spell correctly and use it when your opponent has some number of pips and is gearing up to cast a high rank spell, (say Ice Giant), then the opponent will not only fizzle, but will loose a minimum of five pips.
So, perfect timing of the spell can lead to plausible results.
Note that you can also be dispelled too causing you, the caster to fizzle if you're using a particular spell of the dispelled school.
