Does Antimagic Aura affect the caster?

Quote from Natrel >>.

 I disagree. There's Globe of Invulnerability for that. To me, Antimagic Field's purpose is to shut down enemy spellcasters. That's why GoI is listed as a "Negation" spell, while AMF is listed as a "Control" spell.
But that control is pointless if you also shut yourself down in the process.

 Globe of invulnerability is immovable and can't stop higher level spells. Antimagic field is for when the enemy is much more magical than you are, and thus shutting down one spellcaster on your side is worth it (since PCs tend to be blinged out with magic, it's mostly useful for NPCs).

Much more magical than you are? That's an 8th level spell :)
If you can cast this spell, you either have the armor, or you're a peerless spellcaster yourself.

Quote from Pantagruel666 >>

Quote from MoribundEidolon >>

 Even if you allowed targeted spells to go through an antimagic field, I don’t see how you’d be able to affect an AMF’s caster with a spell’s Area of Effect.

An AMF prevents the area of the spell from affect things in the AMF. Things that are not in the AMF are not protected, and there's no evidence that passing through the AMF blocks line of effect (if it does, the caster cannot target anything other than self).

AMF does more than just prevent an AoE from affecting targets in its area, otherwise it wouldn’t prevent fog cloud and the like.  From the text: “Areas of effect created by spells or other magic can’t extend into the aura.” That sure sounds like it blocks an AoE’s line of effect to me.