User blog comment:Cyborg Mage/Ezekiel, the Mana Tempest/@comment-6120746-20130407113901/@comment-4702814-20130407123022

You do raise a fair point about his passive, so I think I'll remove the Depleted Mana debuff. That should give him better (read: existent) lane presence. As for fighting in mid, he might be easily countered by most autoattacking champions, but he also presents a pretty strong counter to any mid that can't rely just on their autoattacks, which is a lot of them. He has an AoE silence he can refresh with his skillshots and can out-sustain anyone who doesn't have good autoattacks, given that he gets mana back from his autoattacks and from any poke the enemy mid throws at him. And any concerns about mana costs fly out the window in a teamfight-which, with his AoE silence and magic damage, is where he would probably shine.