[Leslie]

OK, Envy - just a straight answer - you WANT these spells:

LVL 1 - Magic Missile, Prot. From Petrification, Friends,Spook
LVL 2 - Blur, Mirror Image, Resist Fear, Web, Detect Invisibility, Glitterdust (rules on lower levels !), Knock (are you solo ?)
LVL 3 - Ghost armor, Fire Arrow, Haste, Melf's Minute Meteors, Remove or Dispel Magic, Skull Trap, Slow
LVL 4 - Emotion, Greater Malison, Minor Sequencer, Stoneskin, Spirit Armor (!)
LVL 5 - Animate Dead, Breach, Feeblemind, Lower Resistance, Spell Immunity, Sunfire, Spell Shield (if you fight beholders without cheese)
LVL 6 - Contingency, Death Spell, Improved Haste, Mislead (99% game over for enemies - boring), Prot. from Magic Energy, Prot. from Magical Weapons, True Sight
LVL 7 - Khelben's Warding Whip, Mordekainen Sword, Prot. From the Elements, Ruby Ray of Reversal, Spell Sequencer
LVL 8 - Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting, Incendiary Cloud, Pierce Shield, Prot. from Energy, Simulacrum, Spell Trigger
LVL 9 - Chain Contingency, Shapechange, Spellstrike, Spell Trap, Time Stop