Deck building and matchups, a goodbye post

[TribalTrouble]

You go on now, spread your Wings and fly.   

[Cheesy111]

Regret missing my chance to play with you this last War (and not due to your placing, either).  Regret moreso not being able to play with you in following Wars.  You seem cool and I wish I had known you better.  Take care.

[OldTrees]

You will be missed.

Thank you for the strategy thread.

[ARTHANASIOS]

Don't leave.

[RavingRabbid]

I love you, kev.

I will always remember you like this:

If someone from CI&A Staff don't join next Trials, might be able to have him award bonus points for Card Ideas.  Same for Competition Organizers, PvPO's, etc.  Maybe I can even trick those jerkface Admins.  lol.  So dumb.  They'll never see it coming.  I'll offer candy and inside the candy I'll hide an obligation to award bonus points.  Mwahaha.  kev, you're so smart.  Ikr?

[RootRanger]

You've done a lot for the community over the years. I'll miss you.

[Annele]

I really wanted to work with you sometime in the future. D: It's sad to see a great member leave.

[Rutarete]

You leaving feels like several people leaving.

We won't forget you and your contributions.

[artimies7]

I didn't know you well, but the forums benefited from your presence anyway.

Come back someday, ok? Or at least think about it.

[Opsinis]

Well, kev, you'll be missed.

Thanks for leaving us with a great memory, especially this post.

[Elbirn]

Don't leave.

[10 men]

The problem with this article is that Elements has many different "RPS-subgames", not just one, and you are amateurishly trying to intermingle some of them. This leads to this fourway RPS which as people usually discover around the age of seven are not real RPS, as well as your beautiful rule of thumb of "It depends" which comes right after "Tomorrow it's going to snow or it is not going to snow" in its conclusiveness.

A better way to go about this would be to look at some of the fundamental underlying RPS mechanisms of the game, then look at the metagame and then figure out which of them apply. Here are some of those RPS subgames that I mentioned:

all creatures < creatures with CC < no creatures < all creatures
Shields < Shield evading damage < not Shield Evading damage < Shields
normally quanta'd creature deck < anti-creatures < underquanta'd creature deck < normally quanta'd creature deck
permanents < pc < no permanents < permanents
unique overpowered card < the 2-3 cards that can beat the overpowered card < everything else < unique overpowered card (example for typical unrestricted unupgraded no-Shard EtG Events: Discord & Dimensional Shield)

The core of your graph is the first rule (with rush, dom and stall as the corresponding deck types) and the next two you are somehow trying to integrate with the "Break" archetype, while the last two are simply missing. The problem is that you cannot simply mix those rules up as they exist mostly indepentant from each other.