Element breakdown: Earth

[Kakerlake]

Thread Primary Goal: Fully Define All of What Earth is and is not.
Thread Secondary Goal: Define Earth so new mechanics can be derived

General Views:

• Earth: It is the Element of sturdiness, heaviness and versatility. It can be the soil to grow life but also a rockslide to crush entire villages. If you combine it with other elements, you can get things with completely new properties.
• Stone: Anything ranging from gems to chalk or even mountains is Stone. It is heavy, hard and dangerous but at the same time beatiful, useful and a sign of wealth.
• Metal: The more refined form of stone. Contrary to stone, metal can bend without breaking. In modern society it is THE element to be used for anything. It's electric conductivity allows to build a network to share information within seconds. You even kill someone by simply droping a lump of Iron on them. Coins, weapons, cutlery, pipes, the core of the thing you currently are working with, all consists of metal.
• Steel: Last but not least: The metal of pure versatility. There is a whole field of study called engineering which main purpose is to find out what steel is, how it can be manipulated to gain more of the aspects you are looking for.

Some things to know:

• Seen as one of the fundamental elements in Babylonian, Greek, Hinduism, Buddhism, Chinese, Japanese, Tibetan and Medieval Alchemiy
• People born under the astrological signs of Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo have dominant earth personalities. Earth personalities tend to be calm, practical, hard working, wise, stable, patient and sensual. However, they can also be stubborn, possessive, jealous, nearsighted and very harsh.
• Alchemical symbol for earth:

Earth in Elements-the-Game:

• Metall (Titanium Shield, Hematite Golem,
• Sturdiness (Plate Armor, Stone Skin, Burrow, Enchant Artifact, Basilisk Blood)
• Destruction (Pulveriser, Earthquake, Warden)

What Earth lacks:

• I'm out of ideas for that one. The new update pretty much made me happy. Gotta work with the new stuff first to find something that lacks. Any suggestions are welcome.

thx Hyroen for the nice layout I copied

[EmeraldTiger]

Good job, Thank You.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

earth is generally strong and sturdy, HOWEVER, it can also be in forms like sand and mud

[Rutarete]

There are some Origin of Humanity stories that say humans were made from the earth and not evolved amoebae

[artimies7]

Perhaps a card called Landslide? Maybe an ability costing  ? Damages an area on the opponents field perhaps? hmm? anyone?

[cometbah]

Perhaps a card called Landslide? Maybe an ability costing  ? Damages an area on the opponents field perhaps? hmm? anyone?

Like Quicksand and the Trident, you mean? =9

[hell_maker_2943]

Earth lacks opponent creature weakening.

I have come up with a great idea for an earth card, that would help with this. Just creating the art now!

[cometbah]

Earth lacks opponent creature weakening.

I have come up with a great idea for an earth card, that would help with this. Just creating the art now!

Perhaps something that slowly converts a hostile creature's attack into the creature's HP (like turning into stone)? Think of it as reverse-accelerate =9

I think there is already a card in progress that turns creatures into lands (consistent with Earthquake).

I don't think Earth really needs a direct means of creature control... Earth elementals are quite tough enough. In fact, what I do when bored is to take my 60-card Earth-Gravity deck against AI3s to try and break my own record of making the biggest creature possible (Armegio + Accelerate + Basilisk Blood + Chimera). Earth is so good at defence that I can pretty much shrug off any AI3 attacks with absolute impunity (and usually still have 100+ HP left when AI3 decks out). I haven't managed to get a creature bigger than 90/90 yet, by the way. But the 90 damage hit sure produces an awesome sound =9

What I'd like to see is something that plays on Earth + Water = Plant. The defensive capability of Earth + Water is nothing to joke about, and the possibility of actually doing serious damage via Life will make both underused elements a lot more popular.