A few questions (Water-Life deck)

[Drokuz]

Hello everybody! I'm a new player, Spanish speaker (so sorry for any mistake), and I have a few questions that hopefully you can answer.

I started as a Water elemental. Got crushed at AI2, so I considered adding some Death and focusing on poison with Arsenic and Chrysaora. It was more successful, but AI3 and rushing AI2 still were too difficult to beat. Later I turned to the dark side, but the darkness bugs were even worse at beating offensive enemies. So now I ended up with a Life-Water deck, enjoying Forest Spirits with a fair success at AI3 (about 2/3). So, the questions are the following:
- Is this deck worth keeping, or will it be useless against stronger enemies? I haven't sold nor upgraded any card yet because I can't decide which element is the best for the future. I don't want to regret anything! This is my deck and all the additional rubbish I have accumulated this far:

- Ideally, I'd like to play defensively, and I liked poisons too. Yet a defensive strategy seemed completely useless when compared with an average offense. Which would be a good element combination for this purpose?
- My brother plays this game too and uses a mono-fire deck. Rather hard to beat even though he uses a simple rush strategy. Phoenixes are the main concern. What would be the best strategy against such deck?
- Is there any way to obtain rare cards part from the oracle? An Artic Squid seems to be a must have for a good Water deck, yet obtaining a specific rare card through the slot looks almost impossible.
- All considered, what should I upgrade first? If I am to stick to Water, Ice shields seems to be a good start.

Thanks for your time.

[Sevs]

First welcome to the community

- First I think at this point you should focus on using a deck you enjoy, If you wanted to build a more successful deck i would recommend looking into the deck archives here (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/board,178.0.html)

- Rare cards can be obtained from the spins after each win, and from the special spin in arena after you fill up all the rings (by winning games in a row).

- As for what to upgrade, either upgrade an AI3 deck or start upgrading a False God deck. To play defensively i would recommend this (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,9483.0.html) and this (http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,22028.0.html)

[furballdn]

- Ideally, I'd like to play defensively, and I liked poisons too. Yet a defensive strategy seemed completely useless when compared with an average offense. Which would be a good element combination for this purpose?
- My brother plays this game too and uses a mono-fire deck. Rather hard to beat even though he uses a simple rush strategy. Phoenixes are the main concern. What would be the best strategy against such deck?
- Is there any way to obtain rare cards part from the oracle? An Artic Squid seems to be a must have for a good Water deck, yet obtaining a specific rare card through the slot looks almost impossible.
- All considered, what should I upgrade first? If I am to stick to Water, Ice shields seems to be a good start.

If you like a defensive style, you could go for lots of creature and permanent control. Reverse times as well as sundials could help stall if you're going poison.
You could use discord. That usually beats up mono decks. Reverse timing fire's expensive creatures could also work.
You can win rare cards from the oracle, but it's not very likely. Just get it from AI3 farming.
Depends on what type of style you play with.

[Essence]

Check out a deck featuring:

Water Mark
Life Pendulum
Forest Spirit
Nymph's Tears (create Adrenaline-casting nymphs for the smaller forest spirits to buff their damage; peak larger spirits at 8 for max damage from Adrenaline)
Thorn Carapace for killing enemy creatures
Ice Lance for further damaging and occasionally freezing them so that the infection can do it's job in peace.

Like an unupped version of this:

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5c3 5c3 7ah 7ah 7ah 7ah 7ah 7ah 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7bu 7go 7go 7go 7go 7go 7go 7h0 7h0 7h0 7h0 8pp

This has worked well for me in the past.

[Drokuz]

Thanks everyone for the help.