Oh, yeah, I made serious attempts at it too, but if I had two spare dice, I'd try it for grins. Not that I was counting on it to go off on any of the 2 dice attempts.
And yep, I had a power scroll, he just dispelled the hell out of it the time I used it.
I think he was using whatever school of magic comes in the DE book, I don't really know what the schools do outside of the Skaven ones.