I understood the rules until I saw the example deck. I'll need some clarification here. There are nine Aether cards (non-pillar, pend, mark) and three Time cards with only 2 Darkness cards. Did you mistake SoW for Pends? Did you switch the order of Time and Darkness? Did you confuse legal with illegal?
For another minor thing, are you allowed to use 4 cards for each adjacent element? I take it that yes. I'd like unambiguous phrasing for Germans and non-natives, please.
Well, according to the phrasing and the example deck, there is a mark of
(that means up to 6 copies of a card for
, up to 4 copies of a card for
&
and up to 2 copies of a card for
&
), so there are 6 copies of Turquoise Nymph and 4 copies of SoW (4 is below 6 so it is legal), there are 3 Novas (3 is below 4 so it is legal), 1 virus (1 is below 2 so it is legal), 2 vampire stilletos (2 is below 4 so it is legal), 1 SoR and 1 Anubis and 1 Golden Nymph (1 is below 2 so all three of these are legal) and Marks & Pends don't count. So, here you are...