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July 2014
| Hooray for PvP being back! |
- Servers are back. This deserves a line of it's own. Take one minute of your life to raise your hands to the sky and thanks Zanz the almighty and other related elements deities for this miraculous happening. After that, go terrorize PvP1 a bit.
- Leagues are back, but they're almost ending. Get those last-minute matches in so you don't get banned and even maybe get a prize.
- Just like how you join Kuroaitou Forum Games just because they're Kuro Forum Games, you should join the new PvP Event Sacrifice because it's a RootRanger PvP Event. And because it's a PvP Event. And we all know we all want to PvP.
| - Elements the Movie Poster finally ended (Amen) and the voting has already been concluded. I hope everyone enjoyed looking at the posters, and obviously, congratulations to eljoemo who won this competition... which is a competition that he designed and got hosted because he won another competition. Winception!
- Paint with Elements competition was relatively popular. There are some really pretty ones, so go check it out and vote. Voting ends on July 3rd, so you have some time. Enjoy!
- We fully know many of our last comps have been Art Comps, so expect Deckbuilding or Card Designing Comps soon.
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- TRIGGER HAPPY! finally happened. Malignant won. Oh, also, everyone welcome him back. Tournaments already started on June 12th because that's about when servers got fixed.
- Dilgo Wars on June 21st (This tourney is starting to become a classic. Two more times and we'll have covered all the Dilgo Movies!), won by theelkspeaks. Congratulations! yes, I am jealous I did not join
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- Elements Mafia 39 ended! That sure took a while, but this one is a victory for the civilian team. Oranges.
- You can already start signing up for Zawadx's Mafia 40. Go go go, mafia wants YOU... and more players in general.
- The Witch's Game 3 is still going. Some mysteries have been cracked, most of them haven't. Can you solve it? because I know I can't
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Staff Changes
- ARTHANASIOS is our new Brawlmaster! OdinVanguard is yet another new Card Curator! Let us hope both of them do us wonderful voluntary work and keep their sections running smoothly. Good luck to both of you!
- Not a staff change yet, but we are Hiring Trial Overseers. Yes, you can join while hosting; yes, you will be working alone; yes, everyone will be quite bored if we don't have Trials; yes, if you have the slightest shred of interest you just should apply.
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Deck Idea of the Month In an attempt to get some more community participation in the newsletter, this Deck Idea of the Month article was written by our member dark ripper. Thank him.
Deck Idea of the Month
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The deck featured this month was made by mesaprotector, a former master of light, and it is a fun OTK deck that works against any kind of opponent including False Gods and Platinum Arena.
Card by card:
Mark of Entropy: Mark of Entropy triggers alone supernovas which play a major part at stracture of the deck.
Earth Tower: The need of  quanta is ergent, as you will need at least 40 quanta to finish a 200hp opponent.
Supernova: Supernova fuels all other cards other than Shard of Integrity, thus making it a highly essential card for the deck to work.
Sundial: An OTK deck of course needs stalling, sundials save some time for the combination to be achieved and at the same time give the ability of drawing more cards, with barely any cost.
Shard Of Bravery: Instead of the drawing power, Shards of Bravery contribute in making powerful Shard Golems.
Shard Of Integrity: The superstar of the combination. The card that units them all. Shard of Integrity will eventually make the Shard Golem that will win you the game.
Shard Of Freedom: A key card as it provides the created Shard Golem with the airborne ability.
Sky Blitz: One of the most needed cards of the combination, as it is the only card that can grant you the win against high hp opponents, doubling the attack of the airborne golems.
Fractal: Of course one of the most important cards of this combination to be achieved. Once you have formed your Shard Golem, fractal it for the final hit.
Golden Hourglass: Being a deck that in effort to work will probably need the whole deck drawn, Golden Horglass provides it with more speed with the ability of one extra card drawn per turn.
Chimera: In case you have already achieved the combination and there is a shield that might be a burden, chimera will solve the problem uniting your golems and providing them with momentum.
Strategy:
Start by gathering quanta as much as possible, as you will need many of them. Once you have 2  quanta start casting supernovas, in order to draw faster and getting one step closer to the achievement of the combination. In case the opponent starts spamming creatures, try to start chaining sundials as late as possible, because you will have only one chance to make the combination. For the full combination, you will need: 1 Shard of Integrity , 3 Shards of Bravery , 1 Shard of Freedom, the fractal and the Skyblitz. The Shard Golem that will be formed will have 17 attack and 11 health. Later on, depending on the hp of the opponent, start calculating the quanta you will need for the final hit. In case of a False God, you will need at least 40 quanta as you will need at least 6 17/11 skyblitz'd (34 attack) Shard Golems, each one needing 8 quanta to summon, which leads as to the exact amount of 40 quanta and 204 attack. In case there is any shield that could ruin the attack(Bonewall, Dimensional Shield, Fog etc.) use the chimera for bypassing it, and just press your spacebar!
Strengths:
Decks that count on healing, creature control or even sometimes rush decks, will face a huge problem against this deck. Being an OTK (One Turn Kill), this deck , doesn't let the opponent affect the creature, and it will finish the game quickly and harshly!
Weaknesses:
This deck has a huge weakness on PC and denial. Cards that could mess with your sundial chain(like deflags, pulvies, SoFos) can cause a lot of problems, if not immediately kill the deck. Also denial cards, like Black Hole, Silence, Earthquake can easily break the normal operation of the deck.
Card Idea of the MonthIn an attempt to get some more community participation in the newsletter, this Card Idea of the Month article was written by our member ARTHANASIOS... again. Thanks for the help.
Being a quanta producer with an ability changed according to your mark, this Droid fits the thematics of the Other 'element' perfectly. Moreover, despite of being a completely unoriginal mechanic (similar active abilities are Light/Bioluminescence, Fire, Air and Earth) the fact it belongs to Other and produces quanta of your mark offers unmatched versatility and infinite ways to use this little Droid.
Strategies:
There are not a lot of things to say here; the Droid can serve the same strategies every quanta-producer critter serves. In general, has your deck a reason to use a quanta-producing critter instead of a respective Pillar/Pend which matches your mark? If yes, Mirrored Droid|Chromatic Droid is for you. Otherwise, you may better play safe and use the good, old pillars/pends...
Advantages:
It is Other, so it fits everywhere and can be played with every quanta type.
It can serve every element and mono-deck as a quanta-producing critter.
Disadvantages:
Too expensive in comparison with every other in-game, quanta-producing critter.
Like every quanta-producing critter, it is absolutely vulnerable to CC.
Metagame if this card is included:
* Mark of : Droids can be used to fuel SNs and/or serve as alternative BE targets when their quanta-generating skills are not used any more. Even a Fallen Druid may later transform it into a Mutant, so there are some quite good synnergies in .
* Mark of  : Droids can offer quanta-production without the need of triggered death effects (like Soul Catcher does). Morevoer, Droids are very vulnerable to CC and die easily, so they can serve cards and synnergies. Pretty fair Alfatoxin targets, especially since they can fuel Alfatoxins theirselves and enable the Droid&Alfa combo to enter the field a few turns earlier.
* Mark of  : Droids are going to find plenty of uses in . Not only they are the only quanta producer available to this element (except, of course, pillars/pends), they can also feed both upped & unupped Otys and they are excellent assets to a rare yet powerful combo; Chimera & Droid & GP casted upon Droid!
* Mark of : Droids aren't going to find a lot of use because they are completely overshadowed by Gnomes. However, they can be combined with Gnomes to form pillarless monos.
* Mark of  : Life can actually find pretty of uses for Droid. Adrenaline can make Droid to produce plenty of quanta per turn. Morevoer, it is an excellent asset for Mitosis & Bond combo.
* Mark of  : Fire is probably not going to need any Chromatic Droids (Brimstone Eaters are by far superior), though Mirrored Droids may find their place in unupped Immo-rushes. They may also serve to buff Fire Bolts & Fahrenheits along with Brimstones in pillarless fireOTKs.
* Mark of  : NT decks and Ice Bolt-based decks may find it revealing to have quanta-producing critters to fuel their strategy, though both pillars/pends and Dry Spells seem better. Morevoer, Droids have an interesting synnergy with Flooding; since they are Other creatures, they won't drawn.
* Mark of  : Mirrored Droid may aid unupped Hope decks quite well. Moreover, Chromatic Droids & RoLs may create powerful upgraded Hope monos.
* Mark of  : No real reason to use a Droid instead of a Dragonfly, especially since Droids are (probably) non-airborne. However, unlike Dragonflies/Damesflies, they can survive a single UG usage. In general, is one of the least favourite elements for Droid.
* Mark of  : Droids can be interesting quanta producers, espacially since they can also prevent deckout with Eternity & Droid combo.
* Mark of  : No real reason to use Droids over pests. Moreover, they are not buffed by Nightfall. is probably the element that it least favored by Droids.
* Mark of  : Fractal can work wonders with Droids, especially they way the one card fules the other one and vice versa. The expensive cards will be much easier to play after an established Droid field.
* Mark of  (if ever introduced): If Mark of Chroma is evert introduced,  decks are going to have greater versatility and they won't be merely relying to Quantum Pillars and/or Immolations/Novae.
Lots of thank you's, Spike y u no help with new member list, I wrote all of this myself, et cetera. I don't think my eyesight or my sanity will allow me to write another one of these, though..
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