At this moment this keyword is underused and I'd say slightly underpowered, because of VERY slow token counter (10 + 3N). You need 4 turns with full Mage hand just to get +1 magic (3 with Librarian which is pretty expensive for a common). Mage keyword relies on high magic, high gems and supporting cards very heavily, and it's not hard to disable it completely with early Immolation, Trickster (say bye to your 98 Mage tokens) or Destruction overall.
Defense? Mages have defense, it's called Ice queen, it's amazing, but it's completely unreliable, because it doesn't have Mage keyword. So you need to use Magic portal (5 gems), Wish (6 gems), Scepter of evolution (8 gems) to summon Ice queen, or just play and hope on draw in the right time.
Please, make this counter more reasonable - something like 12+4, or give Mage keyword to Ice queen. Mages really need faster enabling, considering that they use basically only one resource that is the most expensive in game.