12th Trials - Challenger's Entrance

[iancudorinmarian]

TIME TO ENTER THE TRIALS
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Please make sure you've read the Rules very carefully. Also, here are the Phase 1 Rules for information on Phase 1 tasks.

To join these Trials, post in this thread a single post containing the following information:

Spoiler for Requirements:

- Evidence of Score Requirement
- Evidence of Established Account Requirement
- Evidence of PvP Event Participation
OR
- Evidence of PvP Event Achievement

Spoiler for Phase 1:

-Name of Task
-Evidence of completion

Spoiler for War Bonus:

-Evidence of participation/WMing last war
-If you were a General, and were in the same War team as the element you are trialing for, evidence of your General-ship

Spoiler for Brawl Bonus:

-Evidence of participation/BMing/Voter's Panel position last brawl
-If you were a Boss, evidence of your Boss-ship

Spoiler for Loyalty Bonus:

-Tell us how many times you have participated in Trials for this element before
-Give us evidence of your participation in each of those trials

You can find more information on the Phase 1 tasks in the Phase 1 Rules. Remember, the Requirements to Challenge are:

• Any ONE from:
• Winning a Weekly Tournament
• A top 3 finish in either of the PVP Leagues
• A top 3 finish in a PVP event
• Finishing on 1 of the top 3 War teams
• Becoming a Master of any Element
• OR ALL of the following:
• 30,000+ score in Elements
• 10+ forum posts
• Joined the forums no less than 3 weeks ago (at the time of signing up)
• Participation in at least three separate PVP Events (Leagues, War, Weekly Tournaments, etc.)

Note: In the event more there are more than four challengers for one element, priority will be given first to players with the higher Phase 1 scores and second to a combination of score/post count.

Challengers:

• mathman101

Master Mr Muffin of is defending.

[mathman101]

Spoiler for Requirements:

Too Lazy to remake this, so I stole my qualifiers from the Last trials 


PvP Event Participations:
Budokan #4, Three Man Team PvP #7, Double Double, Trinity, and Multiple Tournaments


30,000+ Score  ✔
10+ Posts   ✔
Joined no less than 3 weeks ago   ✔
Participation in at least 3 separate PvP Events   ✔

Spoiler for Phase 1:

Spoiler for Task:

Task 4: The Engineer

Spoiler for Evidence of Completion:

Heqet

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Heqet is the egyptian god of fertility and is represented by the image of a frog. She is also a symbol that is related to the annual flooding of the Nile River.

This deck is all about speed. The faster it can draw and play the frogs, the quicker it will manage to kill it's opponent. it has cheap high damage creatures which will easily rip through an opponent before they are able to set up their board. should the opponent be able to survive the first wave of frogs, it has SoP to help increase the damage potential.
This deck struggles against AoE heavy decks, or shield based decks(Dims/Wings/Hope). It has no way to hit around the shields, and a RoF could remove all of it's damage output easily.

Each card has a thematic reasoning for being in this deck:
- Emerald Tower: The main quanta sources for playing the life cards.
- Giant Frog: Heqet is represented by the image of a frog. These frogs multiply quickly and help provide sufficient damage output.
- Mitosis: Heqet is the god of fertility. Mitosis is the closest in-came card that we have to reproduction(aside from maybe a fate egg hatching).
- Inundation: Heqet's fertility is said to also help restore the annual flooding of the Nile each year.
- Shard of Patience: The growth that is needed to help the fertility become accomplished.
- Water Pendulums: The quanta producers needed to help play SoP and Inundation.

Spoiler for Phase 2 Unlocks:

Elements:
 Unlocks 3 of the following:  . The unchosen element will be given to your opponent.

I choose , ,
Upgrades:
Allows the use of up to 6 pillar/pendulum upgrades plus 5 of any upgraded cards in each of your Phase 2 decks.

Elements for Opponents:

Spoiler for War Bonus:

10th place Gravity General, thus I qualify for off-element soldier
+1 pint

Spoiler for Brawl Bonus:

1st Place, other roles
+2 pints

Spoiler for Loyalty Bonus:

5th time trialing for
Life Trials 8
Life Trials 9
Life Trials 10
Life Trials 11
+2 pints

[Mr Muffin]

Defending title.

Spoiler for Requirements:

Look left, see master of life icon.

Spoiler for Phase 1:

Task 3: The Militant

-Upgraded cards banned
-Shields and creature control cards are banned.

Spoiler for List of cc cards:

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595 4vd 4vi 4vk 4vm 4vn 4vp 500 52i 52j 52l 52p 52s 534 55r 55t 562 596 59c 5c3 5f4 5f5 5f8 5fb 5fk 5i7 5i8 5i9 5ib 5if 5ih 5ij 5oh 5ol 5om 5on 5p0 5rj 5rk 5ro 5rq 5un 5us 5uu 5v8 61q 61u 620 8pr

- Aditional bans: Nymph's Tears and Nymph Queen.

Q&A

Q: What about using Pharaoh to eating things with scarabs?
A: You may do that. Banned cards only apply in deckbuilding. Using things like Pharaohs and Fate Eggs to produce creature control is allowed.

Meta and example deck discussion.

Why does this meta favor life? Because it encourages rushes. Life can rush well and anti rush well with Adrenastaves so that's two parts of the meta covered by life decks. Other elements can't do that so the meta favors life.

Adrenstaves should do well in this meta. This Adrenastaves uses a mix of nymphs and Adrenalines for the damage of the nymphs, greater chance of drawing a means of applying adrenaline, and fast cheap applying of adrenaline through the spell to better defend against rushes.

Spoiler for Adrenastaves:

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The meta is pretty simple. The rules greatly encourage rushes so they also greatly encourage anti rushes. If rushes lose to anti rushes what beats anti rushes? Anti anti rushes and perhaps some other anti rushes completing the meta circle.

Rush<Anti Rush<Anti Anti Rush<Rush

Adrenastaves is an effective anti rush and requires specific counters that are easily beat by rushes making it a meta defining deck.



Here is a list of all the pvp decks I could think of that are legal or can be modded to be legal and still work. These may give you a bit better idea of what the meta looks like.

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5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c5 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5cg 5cg 5cg 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 8pr

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55s 55s 55s 55s 55s 55s 561 561 561 561 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 8pr

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 52g 52g 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52q 542 542 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5i5 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 8pk

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vf 4vf 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 50u 50u 50u 50u 55v 55v 55v 55v 55v 55v 8pl

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vl 4vl 4vl 52o 52o 52o 55v 590 590 590 593 593 593 5c1 5c1 5c1 5f6 5lf 5v1 8pm

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593 593 593 593 593 593 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5ur 5ur 5v1 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 8pm

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5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5ur 5ut 5ut 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 606 622 622 622 622 622 8pu

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4vh 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 52q 55u 5c1 5f3 5f3 5f6 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5f9 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5fa 5l9 5l9 5l9 5l9 5l9 5l9 5v1 8po

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5uq 5ur 5ur 5v1 5v1 606 606 606 606 606 8pt

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52h 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52q 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 542 542 542 542 542 542 8pk

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52h 52q 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 53e 53e 53e 53e 53e 53e 542 542 542 542 542 542 542 8pk

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5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c0 5c5 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5de 5de 5de 5de 5de 8pn

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vf 52h 5bt 5f2 5ia 5op 5rl 5rl 5rl 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5rp 5ul 61r 8ps

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4vh 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vl 52q 52q 55v 590 590 590 590 590 590 5c1 5c1 5c1 5f6 5lf 5oi 5v1 620 8pm

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4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vj 4vl 4vl 4vl 4vl 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 590 590 590 590 590 590 593 593 593 5ic 5oi 5oi 5oi 5oi 5v1 8pj

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 590 590 590 590 590 590 591 591 591 591 591 591 8ps

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Spoiler for War Bonus:

Look left, see icon from winning war 11 for evidence of participating in the most recent war and evidence of how successful I was.
Here it shows I was the general for team life in war 11. http://elementscommunity.org/forum/war/war-11-rosters/
+3

Spoiler for Brawl Bonus:

Here is evidence of my participation in the most recent brawl. http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-brawl/brawl-7-roster/
Here it shows how successful I was. http://elementscommunity.org/forum/forum-brawl/brawl-7-standings/
+1

Spoiler for Loyalty Bonus:

I have participated in the life trials once before.
Look left, see master of life icon for evidence of that time.
+1

[iancudorinmarian]

Mr Muffin, post your phase 2 element choices, otherwise they will be randomized.