Help with a Mage Character Design Options

[Shinobi Killfist]

I'd never get a binding focus. I will always save for the power focus instead of the specialized ones. Also normally you can't specialize skills that are in groups. It is a GMs call on this since it is a replacement character but the normal char-gen rule is you'd have to wait in game to break it out of the group to specialize. I'm not a fan of the rule but there it is. With a logic two only 2 of your focuses can be active at the same time. I understand where you are coming from with the physical stat dump so given that you are being allowed to initiate from the get go that should usually be fine, though I'd try to bump them up in game especially reaction and body. Also an intuition of 2 is harsh since it is there for both perception and assensing, but at your point level it is probably fine. Not everything can be good when you are below the normal starting point.

I don't see any qualities listed but they may be in the math. Basically with magician and mentor that is 40 points, though you can gain up to 70 in negative qualities, so net 30 unless you want another positive quality. Surged 10 point giving you more flaws and 20 points in surge qualities like maybe increasing your max charisma, agility, or willpower by 1. I include agility just because if its max becomes 8, the max augmented becomes 12 which matters for possession types.