Forum Brawl #4 - Round 4

[Naesala]

Brawl #4 - Round 4

Time's up! Sending Challenges/Wagers: Time's up!

Things are getting close! The past rounds have been close, closer than you might have thought! Points have been finely shaved off from one team to another by a margin of inches!Now is the time to strike back, to take those glorious points for your own! Read Brawl Rules All submissions must be made by PM-ing the Brawlmasters using the following format: [ROUND X] ROLES

I Got a Crush... on Zanz! Propose a way to make Elements more viral on the internet. The Big Bad Lycan and the three little Holy Cows... Write and illustrate a short children's story about Elements and/or your team. American Horror EtG... Make a deck based around a horror movie or franchise. U-U-Underused? Create a card that works extremely well with at least 3 different UP/underused in-game EtG cards. iSundial 6 Plus! Write a review about an EtG in-game card like it is a top-tech gadget! EVENT CARD! Team Attack Event Card text: A team may spend up to 15 points to remove up to 15 points from other teams.  Spent points & removed points have an 1-1 relationship.  In other words, Team A can spend 1 point to remove 1 point from Team B  or 8 points to remove 5 points from Team B and 3 points from Team C  or 4 points to remove 1 point from Team A and 1 point from Team B and 2 points from Team C  or whatever...

Bonus Task 2 (Round 3&4): We need an excuse to revive EtGWiki... Write a wiki article about a card that has not a wiki article yet. What the title says; with the "that has not a wiki article yet" phrase, we mean any articles which include only the card's stats and just that (there are many card articles like this, e.g. the wiki article of Golden Dragon ).  If you can't find EtGwiki's link, it is the following: http://elementscommunity.org/wiki/Main_Page  You are allowed to rewrite poorly-written articles, like the ones who include just the card's stats and a few lines of text without pointing any strategies and/or any deck examples (e.g. the wiki article of Tower Shield is such an article).  Important: The format of this Bonus Task must be the Elements Wiki format and not the EtG forums format. All teams who submit will receive 5 points. Winner will receive 8 points! Deadline: Round #4 deadline. SUPER BONUS TASK (Round 1-6): Team Newsletter! Create May's Newsletter by co-operating with your fellow Brawlers! Super Bonus Tasks are an additional type of bonus task. There will be only one this Brawl, and it starts and ends with the event. It is supposed to be a co-operative task between every Role and teammate. The Card Designer may do the "Card Idea of the Month" part, the Deck Builder may work at the "Deck of the Month" section, the Off-Topicker may find every member than joined our community and/or crossword of the month, a Forum Expert could work at the Leagues, Tournaments and PvP Events, an Artist is capable of finding pics and/or drawing the Comic of the Month, and the Boss could do a little of everything or whatever. It is up to you to organize your workload and responsibilities... All teams who submit their Super Bonus Task will receive 10 points. Winner will receive 15 points! Deadline: Round #6 deadline. Spoiler for Hidden: Challenge: Artists Frostbite Borealis and Meaning of Life For this challenge, Artists should illustrate the final climactic action-packed frame in the cartoon/anime superpower fight between Frostbite Borealis' artist artimies7 (Water/Ice powers) and Meaning of Life' artist Treldon (Plant Life powers). Please note: Submissions should be at least 300 x 300 px and no larger than 1000 x 1000 px. This is not a multi-paneled comic, just a single frame. That being said, animated effects in a .gif format are ok for magical lazer shooty beams and whatnot. The voting should be open to the community as normal.

Notes:
* Every submission in general must remain PG-13, non-Writer submissions have a max limit of 1000 words (except if noted otherwise) and every submission must absolutely not exceed the length of a single private message (1 PM).

[OldTrees]

Um. This event card seems suspiciously ill considered.
Unilateral action is irrational:
I will lose 1 point relative to 4 teams in order to make no headway against the 5th team.

Leaving collusion and inaction as the next options.
Collusion can be beneficial:
We 4 teams will remain balanced against each other but make -2:-4 headway against the other 2 teams.

However betrayal(inaction after pretending to collude) is rewarded:
I will make X/3 headway against those 3 teams I am betraying and X/2 headway against the other 2 teams.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Um. This event card seems suspiciously ill considered.
Unilateral action is irrational:
I will lose 1 point relative to 4 teams in order to make no headway against the 5th team.

Leaving collusion and inaction as the next options.
Collusion can be beneficial:
We 4 teams will remain balanced against each other but make -2:-4 headway against the other 2 teams.

However betrayal(inaction after pretending to collude) is rewarded:
I will make X/3 headway against those 3 teams I am betraying and X/2 headway against the other 2 teams.

Why, Trees? People love backstabbing!

[Espithel]

I'll spend negative ten billion points to give myself and the person least likely to win ten billion points.

Take that, MoL.

[ARTHANASIOS]

I'll spend negative ten billion points to give myself and the person least likely to win ten billion points.

Take that, MoL.

It is up to 15 points and you have decide this with the rest of your team.

[Espithel]

It's up to >positive< 15 points.
There's no limit on the negatives.

(Yes, I'm joking.)

[Naesala]

This decision is to be sent in by the boss, and in a PM by itself.

The idea is that the teams may inter discuss (something I think might be an interesting twist for this round) or unconciously agree to weaken a powerful team. Whether or not it will be effective is to be scene.

[OldTrees]

Well it looks like actual design matches intended design. I retract my suspicion.

[andretimpa]

Thoughts on the EC:

If every team`s interest is only winning (not caring about their position in case they don`t), then the only thing that matters is the point difference towards the first place. If a team alone targets the first place for 15 points, this point difference remains the same, unless the difference to the second place is less than 15, so the team's main goal is not hurt if they are the only ones using the EC, though they may hurt their standings. If more than one team does it, then they are furthering their goals.

The only thing that needs to be considered is backstabbing, but then again there could be retaliation in the votes (as people don't vote 100% objectively).


EDIT: Is the wager/challenge counter right? Isn't it always 3 days before the main deadline?

[eljoemo]

I feel like challenging another CD, just because. Anyone interested?

[Espithel]

I feel like challenging another CD, just because. Anyone interested?

Entertain me.

[AD TienzuStorm]

For the CD challenge, by "extremely well", would it mean as in synergizes well with mainly those cards (ie. BE synergizes extremely well with creatures with less than 3 attack and no ability), or that it synergizes with a multitude of cards, but just so happens to synergize well with those specific cards (ie. Quint works well with basically everything, but it can also synergize with UU cards)?