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From the new feats posted by Jason:
Disruptive (Combat)
Your training makes it difficult for enemy spellcasters to safely cast spells near you.
Prerequisites: 6th-level fighter.
Benefit: The DC to cast spells defensively increases by 4 for all enemies within your threatened area. This increase only applies if you are aware of the enemy’s location and are capable of taking an attack of opportunity. If you can only take one attack of opportunity per round and have already used that attack, this increase does not apply.
Spellbreaker (Combat)
You can strike enemies that fail to cast defensively.
Prerequisites: Disruptive, 10th-level fighter.
Benefit: Enemies in your threatened area that fail their checks to cast spells defensively provoke attacks of opportunity from you.
Normal: Enemies that fail to cast spells defensively do not provoke attacks of opportunity.
From the book "Miniature's Handbook":
Mage Slayer (General)
You have studied the ways and weaknesses of spellcasters and can time your attacks and defenses against them expertly.
Prerequisites: Spellcraft 2 ranks, base attack bonus +3.
Benefit: You gain a +1 bonus on all Will saving throws. Spellcasters you threaten may not cast defensively. (They automatically fail Concentration checks to do so.)
One, taken as a whole, provides a minor penalty to a spellcraft check a spellcaster can nearly auto-succeed even with the penalty, and if they fail, they provoke an AoO and lose their spell. The other forces the enemy to always take an AoO, and if you hit, they must make a much harder spellcraft check to keep the spell which they will most likely fail. One costs two feats and ten levels in Fighter, the other costs one feat, a +3 BAB, and two ranks in spellcraft. Oh, and the second gives a +1 to Will saves to boot.
In short: These two feats, which are supposed to be fighter only, unique, and powerful, are together strictly worse than a single lower level feat not restricted by class. This should be rectified. I would suggest copypasta'ing Mage Slayer, with a new name and a requirement of only "3rd Level Fighter". Otherwise, those of us who like to play with splatbooks will continue to take Mage Slayer and pass right by these new feats which really should add something to the fighter class.