I fail to see how this nerfs village mages? Like yes, village mages could do more if we all gave them the magic, but we just don't know if someone is village or not. I'm not sure the chances of passing magic to an elim is worth trying to pass it to a village mage. In the initial rules, there's no way to confirm someone as villager, which means we probably don't want to be passing magic to others until late game when we're desperate. I think they should still be farming magic (or whatever that action is called) to have it just in case though.