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RavingRabbid · « **on:** September 25, 2012, 07:43:57 pm »

Phase 1 - Proving Your Worthiness
Phase has ended

Please post Phase 1 submissions in this thread. Please make edits to your original post as your submission progresses rather than creating new posts within this thread, which would be difficult to follow.

Calindu · « **Reply #1 on:** September 25, 2012, 07:51:24 pm »

TASK II - Deckbuilding

Spoiler for Groups:

Spoiler for Deck 1 - Halfbloods:

Spoiler for Deck 2 - AI3:

Spoiler for Deck 3 - False God:

Spoiler for Deck 4 - Fat Deck:

Spoiler for Shard Deck:

TASK III - Building the Game

Spoiler for Elements the Game - version 1.32:

PlayerOa · « **Reply #2 on:** September 25, 2012, 07:53:11 pm »

TASK II - Deckbuilding

Spoiler for Pot o'elements:

Spoiler for Deck 1 - Halfbloods:

Spoiler for Deck 2 - AI3:

Spoiler for Deck 3 - False God:

Spoiler for Deck 4 - Fat Deck:

Spoiler for Shard Deck:

TASK III - Building the Game

Spoiler for Elements the Game - version 1.32:

justaburd · « **Reply #3 on:** September 25, 2012, 07:55:17 pm »

I should do this.... just to do this.

Task I

Spoiler for finished!:

Spoiler for flooding reworked:

NAME:	Flooding
ELEMENT:	Water
COST:	3
TYPE:	Permanent
ATK\|HP:
TEXT:	Kill submerged creatures on the field. Water, neutral, and airborne creatures are immune. Absorb per turn.

NAME:	Inundation
ELEMENT:	Water
COST:	2
TYPE:	Permanent
ATK\|HP:
TEXT:	Kill submerged creatures on the field. Water, neutral, and airborne creatures are immune. Absorb per turn.

ART:

N/A

IDEA:

justaburd

NOTES:

Attempt at balancing flooding to be useful.

Flooding will now stack in accordance to the table below.

Number of Floodings	Unflooded Slots	Upkeep Cost(total)
1	5	1
2	4	3
3	3	5
4	2	7
5	1	9
6+	0	2 more for each extra flooding

SERIES:

LORE:

Back ever since flooding came out, it has been quite underpowered. While the original idea of field control was nice, it did not stop creature summons to the most critical positions. (1-7 initially, followed by 1-5 now) It also did not make much sense when it came to airborne creatures that logically should be fine against floods. In an attempt to fix both its usage problem, in that it wasn't really that useful against anything that wasn't creature spam, I modified it in regards to some suggestions in the Buff this card thread. Balance-wise, people didn't like the idea of being capable of locking down the entire field even if it took 6 copies of the same card to do so (and it would probably be easier and cheaper with a squid and 3 floodings.) Therefore, the answer for me was to increase the upkeep cost to a level where it wouldn't be worth it to sustain that many at once, featuring an increased upkeep cost for additional floodings past the first copy. Also, as a second soft nerf to the potential power of flooding, as well as a logical progression regarding the way flooding should work, airborne creatures were given immunity from the instakill. Of course, if a creature loses airborne, it was obvious that they should get killed.

Lore:
The sky was dark and foreboding; the rain had not stopped for hours, and it only looked to get worse. The waves crashed upon the cliff upon which stood several elementals. Each wall of water was larger than the last, weathering the rocky outcropping with deliberate intent. This was not the highest ground available, but it would not matter even if it was. The water levels had been rising for only a short while, but it was already several feet higher than was normal. It seemed that the gods had finally decided to reclaim what was theirs. That, or Neptune had once again gotten drunk. It did not matter the cause, only the effect. This flood had happened before, and once again, the airborne critters and their comrades had long fled, leaving everyone else to their sad fate. The last time had left some alive thankfully, and the elementals were hopeful that it would not be as severe. Maybe this time, more would be spared by the flood.

Spoiler for Overgrowth:

Task III is here.

Cheesy111 · « **Reply #4 on:** September 25, 2012, 08:16:32 pm »

TASK II - Deckbuilding

Spoiler for Half Blood - PU Catatitans:

Spoiler for AI3 - Healing GotPboids:

Spoiler for FG deck - Dragon Alchemist:

Spoiler for Fat deck - Slow Death:

Spoiler for Shard deck - SoW Vu:

TASK III - Building the Game

Spoiler for 1.32 Patch Notes:

Spoiler for Other Notes:

Task 3 complete. Task 2 redone.

deuce22 · « **Reply #5 on:** September 25, 2012, 08:19:12 pm »

TASK II - Deckbuilding (completed)

Spoiler for 4 elemental division:

Spoiler for deck 1 (AI3):

Spoiler for deck 2 (half-blood):

Spoiler for deck 3 (new FG):

Spoiler for deck 4 (45 mitodevampstall):

Spoiler for deck 5 (SoB UGdial OTK):

TASK III - Building the Game (completed)

Spoiler for Elemements the Game - version 1.32:

willng3 · « **Reply #6 on:** September 25, 2012, 08:21:39 pm »

Task II - Deckbuilding (completed)

Spoiler for Groups:

Spoiler for Half-Bloods:

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The whole Jade Staff + Crusaders combination has been used quite a bit in decks posted on the forums, so I decided to go for something a little bit different here by not using Animate Weapons and making it more defensive than normal. This deck can be pretty slow versus Half-Bloods, but it really doesn't have too many problems beating most of them thanks to the ridiculous amounts of stalling it's capable of. Ideal starting hands will allow you to play a RoL on the first turn and a Leaf Dragon on the second. However, there are cases where auto-mulligan screws things up a bit. Sundials can be used in these situations to stall the opponent for a bit or free up your hand until a RoL appears. The entire combo should work quite smoothly after that.

Crusaders serve several different functions as the main attack force. They can either Endow your Staves or an opposing weapon. Endowing a weapon also makes the Crusader more resilient, which then causes it to become a better target for Mitosis/Epinephrine. There have been quite a few cases where I've decided to Endow an opposing Owl's Eye to grant my Crusaders Ranged and bypass Wings, as an example of using the opponent's weapons to your advantage. Epinephrine will give you 15 healing per turn when a Crusader has Endowed a Staff, and Mitosis will allow you to flood the field with 7 attack creatures that heal you for 5HP each turn. At a certain point it's just near impossible to stop. 4 Jade Staves for extra draw chance and to help reduce the strength of PC.

Hope helps add a bit of stall power to the deck in cases where you're just not getting the Crusader combo set up fast enough. Even just two RoL on the field with Hope in play can help reduce the damage you take significantly each turn. Mitosis can then be used to reduce damage completely.

Sundial serves a lot of purposes in this deck, surprisingly. Its draw power helps speed the deck along a lot, and assuming PC isn't flying around all over the place, they can pretty much turn this deck from 32 cards to 28 cards if needed. Stasis combos extremely well with Crusaders by preventing damage intake for one turn as you heal for a large amount during that time. Against decks with Wings and Dim Shields this is an invaluable strategy. Stasis also helps prevent RoL from killing themselves against Fire Shield or Thorn Carapace as well.

One of the biggest problems for this deck is definitely CC. Fortunately, however, HBs are pretty inconsistent with both the CC that they carry and how they use it. For instance, although Unstable Gas is able to destroy just about every source of your

production in one play, the amount of time it would normally take for the AI to be able to use the card as well as the amount of healing you should have on your side of the field will make your loss nowhere near as significant as you might expect. Renewable CC such as OE can be "distracted" using a Mito-RoL combination while Hope is on the field. The AI will prioritize the RoL with light over the RoL with Mitosis, therefore you can put the AI into a continuous cycle of targeting newly generated RoL as opposed to the "mother".

Fire decks are probably this deck's biggest weakness, along with bad draws of course.

Note: I would like to point out that I did notice that I had unintentionally designed a deck fairly similar to the same one used by Calindu for this part of the task after I had finished both my AI3 and HB grinders. However, I believe that the decks may be considered different on the grounds that Calindu's deck focuses on a more OTK aspect while mine focuses on the synergy associated with Crusaders and Staves.

Spoiler for AI3 deck:

Spoiler for FG deck - Behemoth:

Spoiler for 45 card deck:

Spoiler for Shards deck:

Task III - Building the Game (completed)

Spoiler for New Cards:

Spoiler for Balance changes:

Spoiler for Bug fixes:

Spoiler for New features:

-New AI level (Demigods) added. Demigods will possess decks with preset starting cards, added restrictions for the player, enhanced drawing/quanta production, etc. Defeating them gives a high chance of winning upgraded cards in addition to a special spin featuring only Shards. This mode becomes unlocked once a player's deck level reaches level 40 (~19k score) or higher and they have completed Quest 8. Going below level 40 after this has been unlocked does not prevent it from being accessed again. Unless the Arena is currently considered AI6, this will be AI6. Credit goes to plastiqe for most of this idea.
-All rares now become Relics in normal spins to prevent PvP1/2 exploiting. Special spins are unaffected.
-New quests added:

Quest 8: Defeat 3 False Gods during the same day - Shard reward - becomes unlocked after completing Quest 7 (rare weapon quest)
Quest 9: Defeat a Demigod - Nymph reward - becomes unlocked after completing Quest 8 and reaching level 40
Quest 10: Reach level 81+ - Nymph or Mark reward - becomes unlocked after completing Quest 9; reappears each time that a player gains a level past level 80.

-Leveling up past level 80 now gives players a Mark or Nymph of their choice for each level acquired.
-Booster packs now available in the bazaar - pack types will have varying rewards:

Beginner packs - Priced at 250 - 7 cards consisting of 2 very common cards (Pillars/Pends), 4 common cards (non-pillar/Dragon/rare/ultrarare), and 1 random Dragon. The higher a common card sells for in the bazaar, the more uncommon the card is.
Intermediate packs - Priced at 750 - 9 cards consisting of 2 very common cards (Pillars/Pends), 6 common cards (non-pillar/rare/ultrarare), and 1 random rare weapon. Selling price does not affect rarity.
Expert packs - Priced at 2000 - 11 cards consisting of 2 very common cards (Pillars/Pends), 8 common cards (non-pillar/rare/ultrarares), and 1 rare card. Rare cards in this case place rare weapons as being the most common with upgraded cards being more uncommon and a chance of winning a Shard as very rare.

There is a limit to how many booster packs you can purchase each week; booster packs are restocked each Monday at the same time that the Oracle can be accessed again. Consider adding Element specific packs on certain days throughout the year (holidays, etc.).

-Randomized PvP now features additional filters to allow players to decide what kind of PvP matches they would like to play. For instance, players can decide if they want to face a player who has played around the same games as them, they can decide to face only players with higher score, and they can also ban Shards from being used in each match. Because the game has lost a bit of popularity with both a lack of updates and a forum move, this feature can be expected to result in less games being found until the game becomes more popular again. Until that time the filters can be disabled to allow more matches to be found.
-Arena now keeps track of how many wins/losses your deck accumulates each day as well as how many people thumb up your deck.
-Password recovery system added using your e-mail address.
-Errors involving donation codes resolved.
-New animation option which reduces quality to below that of Low. In other words, no animations will appear in this mode at all.
-Lore text added to go along with each Quest.
-Missing Oracle card text added.
-Various grammatical/spelling errors fixed.
-Trainer now features a mode which enables the player to see what cards the opponent is holding in hand.
-Cards missing from the "All Cards" button have been added.

thatnewguy · « **Reply #7 on:** September 25, 2012, 08:26:01 pm »

Task 2 Deckbuilding (completed)

Spoiler for House divided:

Spoiler for Ai3:

Spoiler for Ai4:

Spoiler for FG:

Spoiler for FATTY:

Spoiler for shards.... bleh:

Task 3 Making the game! (complete)

Spoiler for Added cards:

Spoiler for Card balances:

Spoiler for Buf Fixes:

Spoiler for Added features:

Tiko · « **Reply #8 on:** September 25, 2012, 08:32:04 pm »

► Task I - Brawl Related Skills

Spoiler for Task I:

Spoiler for Thunderstorm | Lightning storm:

Spoiler for Wraith | Wraith:

I guess they would probably work nicely together.

► Task II - Deckbuilding

Spoiler for Task II:

► Task III - Building the Game

Spoiler for Task III:

Jenkar · « **Reply #9 on:** September 25, 2012, 08:33:47 pm »

*starts learning the way of the crawlers*

Quote from: Tiko on September 25, 2012, 08:32:04 pm

I can't let Jenkar switch elements at will, can I.. ?

Yay! Competition~:D

Task II (complete)

Spoiler for All The Porkchops!:

NAME:	Thunder Clouds
ELEMENT:	Air
COST:	5
TYPE:	Spell
ATK\|HP:
TEXT:	Creatures take half their max HP as damage. If they took <3 damage, they are also delayed

NAME:	Thunder Clouds
ELEMENT:	Air
COST:	4
TYPE:	Spell
ATK\|HP:
TEXT:	Creatures take half their max HP as damage. If they took <3 damage, they are also delayed

ART:	Shrink
IDEA:	Jenkar
NOTES:	Inspiration will come today, but don't hold your breath. Don't have your head in the clouds today, or else the return to reality might stun you. Year 89. A small mountain range. Lycoc briefly stopped climbing and looked up. High above his head, he could see the small fluffy rain clouds starting to gather. The rain was going to fall soon, and he couldn't afford to walk under it, what with his bag full of arcane books. He started walking, fast. Soon, the shrubbery started getting thinner. He saw a cave carved in the side of the mountain, and ran to it just as the rain started falling. Once inside, he started unpacking his stuff. He sat down on the rocky floor and started reading "How to control Energy, by Thwump". He was right in the middle of reading the paragraph about altering Gravity to fall on ennemies when he heard a small snarl. Lycoc turned around and shot, almost out of reflex, a blue bolt of lightning on the lycanthrope that was pouncing on him. In the flash of light he saw the back of the cave, crammed with small lycans. He knew he couldn't fry them all, especially with the night coming soon. He acked out. Outside, there was a small mist. He started running, the lycans at his heels. Soon, he understood that he was running through a cloud that had dropped down to the level of the mountain. As he realised that, he suddenly felt a tearing pain : a lycan had managed to sink its teeth in his foot. He tripped, and soon was swarmed by the beasts. Determined to kill the most he could, he started to fire bolts of lightning all around. The air started smelling of fried meat, but also had a charged smell, that grew stronger and stronger. Suddenly Lycoc's vision went black. When he woke up, he was surrounded by dead lycans. The cloud had disappeared.
SERIES:

NAME:	Whirlpools
ELEMENT:	Water
COST:	4
TYPE:	Permanent
ATK\|HP:
TEXT:	Cards cost 1 more quantum. Delayed creatures generate when they stop being delayed.

NAME:	Whirlpools
ELEMENT:	Water
COST:	3
TYPE:	Permanent
ATK\|HP:
TEXT:	Cards cost 1 more quantum. Delayed creatures generate when they stop being delayed.

ART:	Shrink
IDEA:	Jenkar
NOTES:	Today is a day to go with the ebb and flow of things. It will be hard to stay awake today, but each time you wake up, you will bring others to new heights. Interacts well with the delaying effect of the new thunderstorm. Slowing down opponent also makes getting cc cards before you're dead easier.
SERIES:

Many thanks to Shrink for the art, and Calindu for generating card images (my computer borked them out).

Task II (complete)

Spoiler for Division:

Spoiler for Halfbloods:

Spoiler for AI3:

Spoiler for False God:

Spoiler for Fatso:

Spoiler for ShardsofLamelessness:

Onizuka · « **Reply #10 on:** September 25, 2012, 09:58:15 pm »

TASK II - Deckbuilding

Spoiler for Deck 1 - Halfbloods:

Spoiler for Deck 2 - AI3:

Spoiler for Deck 3 - False God:

Spoiler for Deck 4 - Fat Deck:

Spoiler for Shard Deck:

TASK III - Building the Game

Spoiler for Elemements the Game - version 1.32:

regen2k9 · « **Reply #11 on:** September 25, 2012, 10:47:26 pm »

IN PROGRESS (please do not judge yet)

Task I

Spoiler for Original Card: Shard of Focus:

Spoiler for New Card: Implode|Implode:

NAME:	Implode
ELEMENT:	Gravity
COST:	5
TYPE:	Spell
ATK\|HP:
TEXT:	Destroy target permanent. Target creature gains +0/+10.

NAME:	Implode
ELEMENT:	Gravity
COST:	4
TYPE:	Spell
ATK\|HP:
TEXT:	Destroy target permanent. Target creature gains +0/+15.

ART:	regen2k9 (original)
IDEA:	regen2k9
NOTES:	Shard of Focus is considered by many to be one of the most overpowered cards in the game right now. Its objective was to give universal permanent control, since one of the most pressing issues for balance between elements is the lack of PC found within many elements. However, other-based multi-use PC with additional beneficial effects turned out to be too powerful. Why is SoFo OP? It takes is one nova or three quantum towers to summon a first turn Shard of Focus. Used on pillars, this could have the effect of a 3-turn extrapolated earthquake for 1 nova, or three deflagrations/explosions on a stick. One part of SoFo's OP-ness is its versatility. While deflagration can be used to target pillars, it is difficult to successfully pillartroll with it. However, due to SoFo's multi-use dynamic and its ease of play, pillartrolling is easy with it. Although it starts with only 1HP, it is extremely difficult to use CC on it when it is played first turn, especially in the unupped environment, and due to SoFo's other ability (gain +0/+15), it rarely stays at 1 HP for long enough to target with CC when you are ready to play it. +0/+15 per ability use has remarkable synergy with gravity pull, which has the potential to turn SoFo from a three-time use card to a four to five-time use card. Furthermore, SoFo's ability to turn into a black hole after its HP > 45 allows it to further quanta deny, and target rainbows which would otherwise be able to effectively counter SoFo-based decks. Effectively, SoFo has two means of denial incorporated into one card with multi-use effects, CC resistance after the first turn, and a built-in buff mechanic. Why implode as an alternative? Implode\|Implode was created so that the in-element PC issue could still be addressed, while the overpowered facets of SoFo - namely that it is reusable, and provides TWO other beneficial effects - were nerfed. Due to Implode's in-element cost of 5 \|4 and its spell nature, its first-turn use is moot. Furthermore, its cost takes away its ease of splashability. It still keeps with the gravity theme of large creatures though, and has natural synergy with gravity pull, acceleration, catapult, and gravity shield, bolstering gravity's in-element effectiveness. This boosts gravity's mono potential as a whole, which is well-deserved considering that gravity is often seen as one of the more incomplete elements, and is UP in the unupped mono environment. Is implode balanced? For cost balance, compare this card to deflagration\|explosion for 3 \|2 , and heavy armor\|plate armor for 1 \|1 . The armor effect is greater for implode\|implode and it combines these two effects into one card, so the net cost is raised from 4-5 for the unupped version and 3-4 for the upped version. Furthermore, as mentioned above, it is not easily splash-abused due to its cost.
LORE:	The discovery of the 12 shards of power left the elementals with the Shard of Focus in their possession. It had the capability to destroy entire cities, decimating all in its wake, swallowing buildings whole as it grew and grew in size, until finally, it would implode into itself, its large mass becoming compressed into its core. Its massive gravitational force pulled all that was left around it into oblivion, as the black hole created by the shard would destroy whatever the shard did not. Only the gravity elementals truly understood this fearsome power. To prevent its misuse, they surreptitiously stole the shard from the Mage's Keep during the 12th hour of the 7th cycle. In the great forge of Czek-Dul, they melted the shard down into fragments, one bestowed to each of the gravity elementals, allowing them to use a small fraction of the shard's implosive power at their will.
SERIES:	6th Trials

Spoiler for Card with synergy: Relinquish|Relinquish:

Author

RavingRabbid

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Calindu

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PlayerOa

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justaburd

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Cheesy111

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deuce22

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willng3

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thatnewguy

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Tiko

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Jenkar

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Onizuka

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regen2k9

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