(Nearly) No Bazaar Challenge

[killsdazombies]

This might actually be a fun way to play elements (Considering I've grown weary of the game as of late) I'll give it a shot later. Posting to follow

[dawn to dusk]

lucky number 1. starting now

[Calambar]

Interesting idea Unfortunately I don't have much time to play EtG again from start. But probaby I will create new account after 1.4... If it ever happens ;]

[Fippe94]

Decided to try this, and got Fire. Decided to name me the oh so creative "TheFlameOfFire"

[Shantu]

Would it be better to aim for a AI4 farmer as first goal, or a Bronze farmer? Bronze has more focused decks (-> more cards from spins) and special spins for rares, and might also be easier if you can get past the mono aethers. AI4 has upped stuff though..

In the end it might all depend on what cards you actually spin I guess.

[Dm]

AI4 is much harder to spin though, what with that 10% randomness. Plus, if you get an upped card that isn't from your element it's basically semi-dead for a long while. I'd hit the road for Bronze.

[Terran 3]

This seems interesting, rolled a 4 for Ripples the elemental. Let's see where this leads.

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Looks like we're starting with this.

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4t3 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i5 5i5 5i6 5i6 5i7 5i7 5i7 5i7 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i9 5ia 5id 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l9 5l9 5lb 5lc 5lf 8pp

Plenty of CC at least, looks like a stallish deck. Slimmed it down a tad by removing 4 of each pillar, 1 purify and 1 pegasus.

  turns out to be quite difficult to manage, what with the low to no attack creatures... Managed to get the dragon out in the nick of time in half of the fights, so it wasn't too bad. Selling the pegasus turned out to be a mistake though.

Decided to run 10 turns per day, ended with 7:3 and spun a friggin' fire pillar. Hopefully day 2 will be better.

[Shrink]

 

A good sign for "DoctorDeath!" My signature makes even more sense now.

Melikey.

EDIT: Forgot what the starting deck looks like...

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4t3 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52i 52i 52i 52i 52j 52k 52k 52m 52m 52m 52n 52n 52o 52o 52p 52r 55k 55k 55k 55l 55n 55q 55r 8pk

Constantly praying for that drag.

First duel... got it!

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[EnigmaRequiem]

[11:23] <Enigmac> 1d12
[11:23] <DerpyDice> 1d12: 7 [1d12=7]

Went to my home IRC to roll, for good luck. It gave me my lucky number- sadly, that was its own betrayal. Still, learning more of  cant hurt!

ChaoticEvil the Entropy Elemental is born! Thus named for the alignment of my favorite DnD Character, a Neutral Evil Rogue that ended up catching Lycanthropy (as an act of mercy from the DM- he kept getting dropped to -0 by random encounters), and imediately wiped half the party in a reminder that he was well built, just had crap rolls

[Pineapple]

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vd 55q 5c1 5f4 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rh 5rh 5ri 5rj 5rk 5rk 5rl 5rm 5rn 5rn 5un 5up 61u 8pu

Timebow! Without the hourglasses... I wonder how you're supposed to do this challenge without a rainbow!

AI3 dropping one by one. Clearly, this deck was not created through sheer deckbuilding skill but rather a culmination of lucky spins and a Lobotomizer from the Oracle. Plus, the real win-rate against AI3 is probably very low, but as of this post I've gone 4-0 so whatever.

I began to note some interesting things, for what I like to call "slow elements", that this challenge has taught me: 1. An early Fate Egg or Lobotmizer is usually GG against AI3, 2. AI2 can be beaten down by a single second-turn Quinted dragon (and an Anubis beforehand, and some small critters thereafter), 3. Deja Vus (and to a lesser degree actual tanks like Anubis) are great scouts for tanking all the CC that would be in an enemy's hand before playing your important but fragile creatures.

[rob77dp]

Where is the list of Elements to match this number?  I was thinking alphabetical but then Aether would not be #10 as Higs used.  Then I thought to use the bazaar order but Shrink has Death from #10.


Alright, in-game element list gives me LIGHT as #5 element.  Here we go!
New user-name: rob77dp_NBC

Spoiler for Starter Deck(s):

Light Starter

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4t3 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l9 5l9 5la 5lb 5lb 5lb 5lc 5lc 5ld 5le 5le 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lg 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5od 5oe 5oh 5ok 8pr

Which I immediately revised to:

rob77dp's Light Starter

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4t3 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5la 5lb 5lb 5lb 5lc 5lc 5le 5le 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lg 5od 5oh 8pr

We'll see how this goes!

Notes:  I forgot how "neat" it can feel to be able to even use the "ALL" cards category/button!

Spoiler for My first steps (spoilers will be heavily used in this chronicle!:

It directed me to play a Level 0 for first quest - alright, so I did.

I EM'd first match with this new account!

Spoiler for EM level 0 to win first duel:

Followed by a sell/buy (per "rules" can only buy pill/pend - I bought a Light Pendulum) for Quests then Level 1 duel - 7 TTW Peggy-rush ensued!  Missed an EM by 3 HP!

Spoiler for 2-0 with EM and a 100-HP-defeated 7 TTW:

Followed promptly by a 10 turn loss to AI2 which somehow spammed an organized looking mess!

Spoiler for Example of the inconsistency starter decks experience:

Next came L3 like this:
Loss 1 - 3rd turn Skull shield which kills 4|9 angel on second attack with 5th turn Bone Dragon = gg.
Loss 2 - 3rd turn Skull shield kills 10|10 dragon on FIRST attack with 5th and 7th turn Bone Dragons = gg.
Loss 3 - 4th turn Ice Shield which freezes 5 of first 5 attackers and AI somehow spams 7 attackers in the game too.
Seriously?  When did AI2 get promoted to RNG's project manager?!?

Finally defeated AI2 on my 4th try - fighting through SIX AI CC cards played in the first SIX turns of the game!  Are you kidding?!

[Dm]

At the moment when you click Login after registering your account, that's the element list.