Magic was stronger in the early access, and I believe it's still stronger with the added tools, it got nerfed in quite a few ways, (aero bonus change, ap cost change for a few spells, flesh sacrifice adrenaline no longer adds max ap, skin graft have 2 ap cost and source cost) but there are so many new spells to toy with, I'm gonna do a run of my own again and see how it goes.