>That
>marble hand was his primary source of damage. That's not a
>transmuter spell.

I knew that was going to come up, too.

In practice, any lowbie mage who really wants a chunk of marble can come up with one, just as any warrior who really wants a way to see invis can come up with one. I consider these things part of the landscape of PK at those levels, not something that can be separated from it.

That being said, in modern CF I don't think this fight would look dramatically different with Mental Jolt in its place.