[Round 1] forum expert/deckbuilder

[Skotadi Phobos]

Fiery Hot Mixtape presents to you all the number one thing we hate the most in every single card game ever:
Bad starter decks. Let's list everything wrong about them as quickly as possible.

First off, they give a terrible example of what actually counts as good. You know all those weird, poorly made decks noobs have with seemingly random cards and a mentality of potential over probability? That's what happens when you have bad starter decks. Because they think starter decks are good (and why shouldn't they?), they make these crazy, diluted decks with no actual focus or quanta base.

If we give them a truly good deck to start off with, they will look at that deck, see why it works, and base all other decks on the positive aspects of that deck. The number of silly newbs will decrease.

Second off, we like newbs beating us, and newbs love beating good people. Allowing new players to play faster, without them having to fiddle around with tat, is a good idea. Allow them to play faster, git gud faster, get rares faster, and steal RootRanger's title faster. Whilst we shouldn't give them upped monoair, we should at least give them a deck that works straight out of the box.

Some criticisms of this idea are as follows:

1) Pro decks are confusing. We need simpler decks!
Yeah...

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4t3 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52i 52i 52i 52i 52j 52k 52k 52m 52m 52m 52n 52n 52o 52o 52p 52r 55k 55k 55k 55l 55n 55q 55r 8pk

What is simple and sensical about this?
Are you implying that psiontal is confusing? Sure, its nuances are, but psion fractal itself isn't.

2) They need to learn how to play the game before they get to play with good decks! After all, I put effort into these decks! Why should they get to piggyback?

Instead of giving them perfectly meta decks, we've given them almost perfectly meta decks with minor inefficencies.
Be happy you're selfish. If we had our way, they'd be com

Finally, and here's the main point:
We're just going to tell them to make these decks anyway. Why not just save time?

Let's just make every starter deck the standard mono we'll force them to make anyway.
The only issue is this invalidates NBC and level 1-2. I personally consider that a good thing.

TL;DR: git gud, decks.

Onto the actual decks, though:

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Earth

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 591 591 591 591 591 591 593 593 593 593 593 593 595 595 595 595 8pm

Blame Meow for not making it grabboidquake. >:U

Air

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5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oe 5oe 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5og 5og 5on 5on 5on 5op 5op 8pr

Fire:

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5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 8po

Water:

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5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i9 5i9 5id 5id 5id 5id 5id 5id 8pp

Light:

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5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5ld 5ld 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 8pq

Darkness

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5up 5us 5us 5us 5us 8pt

Entropy:

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4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 8pj

Gravity:

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55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55m 55m 55m 55o 55o 55o 55o 55o 55o 55q 55q 55q 562 562 562 562 562 562 8pl

Time

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5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rl 5rl 5rl 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 8ps

Aether:

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61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 622 622 625 625 625 625 625 625 8pu

Life:

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5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5c2 5c2 5c2 5c2 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 8pn

Death:

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52h 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 8pk

[Naii_the_Baf]

The earth deck is missing cards, tho. Lemme correct it:

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58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 591 591 591 591 591 591 593 593 593 593 593 593 595 595 595 595 8pm

[Espithel]

NOTE: Sko's submission has an error regarding earth's deck. The spoiler below contains a complete fix.

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Fiery Hot Mixtape presents to you all the number one thing we hate the most in every single card game ever:
Bad starter decks. Let's list everything wrong about them as quickly as possible.

[u]First off[/u], they give a terrible example of what actually counts as good. You know all those weird, poorly made decks noobs have with seemingly random cards and a mentality of potential over probability? That's what happens when you have bad starter decks. Because they think starter decks are good (and why shouldn't they?), they make these crazy, diluted decks with no actual focus or quanta base.

If we give them a truly good deck to start off with, they will look at that deck, see why it works, and base all other decks on the positive aspects of that deck. The number of silly newbs will decrease.

[u]Second off[/u], we like newbs beating us, and newbs love beating good people. Allowing new players to play faster, without them having to fiddle around with tat, is a good idea. Allow them to play faster, git gud faster, get rares faster, and steal RootRanger's title faster. Whilst we shouldn't give them upped monoair, we should at least give them a deck that works straight out of the box.

Some criticisms of this idea are as follows:

1) Pro decks are confusing. We need simpler decks!
Yeah...
[deck]4sa 4sa 4sa 4t3 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52i 52i 52i 52i 52j 52k 52k 52m 52m 52m 52n 52n 52o 52o 52p 52r 55k 55k 55k 55l 55n 55q 55r 8pk[/deck] What is simple and sensical about this?
Are you implying that psiontal is confusing? Sure, its nuances are, but psion fractal itself isn't.

2) They need to learn how to play the game before they get to play with good decks! After all, I put effort into these decks! Why should they get to piggyback?

Instead of giving them perfectly meta decks, we've given them almost perfectly meta decks with minor inefficencies.
Be happy you're selfish. If we had our way, they'd be com

Finally, and here's the main point:
[b][color=yellow][size=11pt]We're just going to tell them to make these decks anyway. Why not just save time?[/size][/color][/b]

Let's just make every starter deck the standard mono we'll force them to make anyway.
The only issue is this invalidates NBC and level 1-2. I personally consider that a good thing.

TL;DR: git gud, decks.

Onto the actual decks, though:
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Earth [deck]58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 591 591 591 591 591 591 593 593 593 593 593 593 595 595 595 595 8pm[/deck]
Blame Meow for not making it grabboidquake. >:U[/size]

Air [deck]5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oe 5oe 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5of 5og 5og 5on 5on 5on 5op 5op 8pr[/deck]

Fire: [deck]5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f0 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f4 5f6 5f6 5f6 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 5fc 8po[/deck]

Water: [deck] 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i4 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i8 5i9 5i9 5id 5id 5id 5id 5id 5id 8pp[/deck]

Light: [deck]5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5l8 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5la 5ld 5ld 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 5lf 8pq[/deck]

Darkness [deck]5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5up 5up 5up 5us 5us 5us 5us 8pt[/deck]

Entropy: [deck]4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4ve 4ve 4ve 4ve 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vf 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 4vn 8pj[/deck]

Gravity: [deck]55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55k 55m 55m 55m 55o 55o 55o 55o 55o 55o 55q 55q 55q 562 562 562 562 562 562 8pl[/deck]

Time [deck]5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rg 5rl 5rl 5rl 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5rm 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 5ru 8ps[/deck]

Aether: [deck]61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 61t 622 622 622 622 625 625 625 625 625 625 8pu[/deck]

Life: [deck]5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bs 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5bu 5c2 5c2 5c2 5c2 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 5c7 8pn[/deck]

Death: [deck]52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52h 52h 52h 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52o 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 52t 8pk[/deck]
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[CleanOnion]

Modification approved. However, I don't have mod access over FHM and hence can't change the OP. I'll contact UTA but can't guarantee that this will be solved
The voting post will contain the correct version.