Thank you! Really great feedback. I agree that some items like the death wand are pretty strong, but every item can be used to skip a turn, which is useful for controlling the position of enemies relative to you. So I think the spin wand is pretty strong cause it's a turn skip on a 2 move cooldown. Interesting to see how different people approach the game!
In my first or one of my first attempts, I quickly experienced the need for waiting a turn, so this is definitely useful! This was against the knight, as kindanice says, because he cannot move diagonally nor several tiles at a time, and I was cornered in a 1-height area. When I got the object, I did use it to great effect.