Please help with simple deck for autistic cousin.

[Rephlex]

Dearest Elements friends,

Hi there, I have been a big fan of this game and I love everything about it .  So when I recently took in our severely autistic cousin for awhile, I started him playing it and he flipping loves it - I made this account for him and he's already went through almost 400 games played!  He doesn't really understand many aspects of the game however - I've seen his playstyle and it's "click all the cards at random and end your turn," I help him with his deck and whenever he gets to targeted cards that "break the game" for him he comes and gets me and I "fix" it for him by clicking on whatever target it can go on.  Which is fine... I was a very serious Magic: The Gathering player back in my day, so the strategy side of me wants to hammer into him the finer points of the game but when I see how much fun he's having I just let him go about it his way.   So in an effort to make it easier on him and make him pretty successful I wanted to create a deck that's as simple as possible.  Here's my rough draft (I have that one upgraded card in for now, only because I don't have enough  yet for more.)


 

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I like the fact that it has several win conditions for him, either by poison counters or by mass skeletons with plague ( he doesn't quite get yet how the parasites work...).  He can usually beat level 2 (probably about 2/3rds of the time with this one and sometimes 3, he usually plays with 2 or 1.

How can I make his deck better?  Or alternatively, do you guys have any other suggestions for simple decks I can give to him?  We're not tied to any one element so we're open to anything.  Also simple is ok if you want to be simple (I think my deck may be overly complicated...)  Keep in mind the limitations his disability puts onto the deck:

1.  no targeted abilities or spells.

2.  no activated abilities on the creatures (or, I guess I should say that there "can" be, but he won't use them)

3.  Simple is fine if successful, but I think he likes to have a diverse board (His face kinda lights up whenever it works out just right where plague kills multiple of their bad guys at once and there are several boneyards up so all the sudden 6 little skeletons pop up!)

Thanks a lot guys, I'm sure my little cousin is going to love what you guys come up with <3

[Mithcairion]

If I were you, I would check out jmizzle7's Deckbuilding 101: From Noob to False God Slayer thread located here: http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,1190.0.html (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,1190.0.html).  I would recommend either the death or entropy decks for the decks that he would be most likely to play well.  Entropy only has the Maxwell's Demons that require a target, but even those are only if the ability was activated and it quite capable of winning without it.  The death deck is simply straight rush, no targeting necessary.  I have tested both of them myself on AI3 and both win much more often than they lose. 

I hope this helps and that your cousin enjoys the game!  Kudos to you for helping him like that.

[Acsabi44]

First, here's a simple deck which is death-oriented and can kill level3 with ease so I'm sure it won't have problems with level2

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If you have more arsenics, then remove the plagues and run the arsenics instead.

I'll come up with a simple yet fun deck later. I'm thinking about pandemonium, it does lots of effects at once and can be abused easily with boneyard/bonewall, so I'm sure your cousin will like it

[xdude]

What rares are we working with here?

Considering only Arsenic: you said he likes a diverse board, right? So, what's more diverse than a rainbow? Specially designed with ability-less creatures (meh, no Graboids ftl). It should beat AI3 most of the time.

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[Glitch]

*snip*

That deck looks like it'd be perfect.  Precog adds for lots of random clicking, and it has no targeting abilities.

[xdude]

*snip*

That deck looks like it'd be perfect.  Precog adds for lots of random clicking, and it has no targeting abilities.

Thanks
I've tried my best, with nice flashy Nova's and a diversity of cards on the field. Hope your cousin enjoys it Rephlex

[crystalmakwer]

Why not a classic mono-eather?? Immortal-dragons-shields...is slowly but very strong and very easy to play

[tyranim]

he likes to click everything on the board, so he might accidentally (or intentionally) click 3 phase shields in one turn

[crystalmakwer]

he likes to click everything on the board, so he might accidentally (or intentionally) click 3 phase shields in one turn

Sorry! I forget it 

[Acsabi44]

cannot somebody come up with a simple pandemonium deck? that's very flashy, even I like to watch it doing 5+ effects simultaneously
maybe 4 boneyard, 5 pande, BWs, pendulums and dragons for the kick.

[tyranim]

its ok, its better to treat people with "special needs" as equals. my niece says its insulting any other way.

[pikachufan2164]

Here's something that's simple, but still fun -- I know I like to see large numbers for my opponent's poison count

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Quanta sources should be fairly balanced for minimal frustration and more "play everything in your hand" action.