Best Evocations for Shadowcaster's Shadow Evocations?

[lans]

I was never too impressed by these mysteries, but on further thought there are some nice evocation spells, like contigency. Which leaves me a feeling that a shadowcaster can break the game with them. Whats the opt list of spells to use with these?

[Benly]

Force effects are some of the obvious ones: Forcecage, Wall of Force, Resilient Sphere and so on. Prismatic Spray and some other offensive Prismatic variants are evocation and are always fun.

I put together a list of all the shadowcraftable spells in the SRD, SpC and Complete Mage at one point, but I didn't get around to evaluating them all.

[fuinjutsu]

Wings of flurry.
Fire shuriken
Splinterbolt.

Does contingency work?

[Epimetheus]

Wings of flurry.
Fire shuriken
Splinterbolt.

Does contingency work?

I'm sure it works if you believe it will. [Trick yourself with Glibness? Or could it be an Autohypnosis type thing? ] Otherwise, it'll only work X% of the time.

[Endarire]

Shadowcraft Mage Spellbook

[jameswilliamogle]

Is it OK to use Contingency with Mysteries?  Because I could see some neat chaining, like Contingency an Echo Spell for use with any long-duration buffs, or a Pass into Shadow.

But, if you just got those Mysteries, you can't use them all that often.  I was going to use the Dragon Breath spell for single combat "need stuff to do" buff (used on the Shadow Familiar).

[lans]

Dragons Breath isn't evocation in the draconomicon, do you have another source for it?

[cru]

Spell Compendium, p. 73 has Dragon Breath, evocation [good or evil]

[Nunkuruji]

Well, the somewhat unique thing the shadowcaster can do is make it (Su) with Favored Mystery. So I'd think about what's interesting to do with that. Maybe something, maybe nothing.