(Nearly) No Bazaar Challenge

[Fippe94]

I used the bazaar order. It doesn't really matter as long as you're still randomizing.

[ColorlessGreen]

Day two:

My wonderfully creatively named "CGs No Bazaar Challenge" account (which RNG'd earth as a starting element, btw) is currently 21-9. I think this is the first time AI3 has been challenging to me since around 2009 - it's honestly a really wonderful change of pace. The fire/water elder is currently just about my least favorite thing on the planet (mostly because screw ice shield) but the rest of them seem more likely to be a win than a loss.

Currently running an earth/life duo:

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4t3 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58o 58p 58p 58q 58r 58r 58s 58u 58u 591 593 593 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5aa 5bu 5c0 5c2 5c6 5c6 8pn

21 wins, 9 losses, as I said before, and 238 score/554 electrum at the moment. Rapidly approaching both a rare weapon and an upgrade. The spins have been pretty much trolling me for the last couple days, though there's been a couple useful items. Getting an extra earth dragon from the oracle on day one was really quite wonderful, but nothing else overly useful has come besides some empathic bonds of limited utility. However, the random stuff I'm spinning is getting me closer to feeling like building a QPbow.

Full non-quanta collection right now:

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4t3 55q 58p 58p 58q 58r 58r 58s 58t 58t 58u 58u 590 590 591 592 593 593 5bu 5c0 5c1 5c2 5c6 5c6 5c6 5ie 5if 5ol 5rh 8pn

[rob77dp]

Summary stats of day 1's progress...

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EoD 1 deck

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[ddevans96]

Randomized darkness in chat. Will be using the account nightblade00. I'll also be writing lore, because I can, and I miss creative writing.

Spoiler for Alpha, Day I - Genesis (Starting Quests):

I am Nightblade. Or at least, that's what I call myself. I awoke one day with nothing but black and gray clothing and a single knife, under only stars and smoke, so I am Nightblade.

For many moons, I have travelled. I have witnessed many things in many corners of the world. Indeed, I believed there was nothing I hadn't seen before, until today. Today, I discovered a warehouse. It was dark and dusty with the feel of abandonment. There was nothing of note in it except a single purple light.

Light is my enemy. I tread safely under the covers of night. But this light was an exception. It suggested a certain nature that made me feel comfortable. And so I approached it. The light became a portal, and I had no purpose and no fear. I secured my knife and entered it.

I found myself in a similar room, with the purple light replaced with a yellow one. I moved away from it, and found a gleaming purple box upon the ground. I opened it to find a small deck of cards. They were not standard, but closer to tarots. Fittingly, they were dark, and they depicted figures.

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Another thing was in the box. A notebook was there. I flipped through it, and all the pages were empty, except the first two. The first page noted the book was magic - certainly something I could understand. The second told me to find the Trainers. A small diagram showed these to be robots.

Apart from this, the box had only four pieces of metal and dust. I took the metal and closed the box. Leaving the room, I did indeed find the Trainers. They were dormant, so I touched one, and it awoke. It showed PULL OUT DECK. I did as much, and the deck shuffled itself. The Trainer instructed DRAW SEVEN, so I did. And then it said YOU FIRST.

I realized this was a card game, and these Trainers were capable of simulating it. I was aware of basic logic, and so I learned my deck quickly. It seemed as though my deck was unoptimized, but so were the Trainers'. There were five of them in this hallway, and I played the first one. It was defeated.

I found it gave me one more piece of metal, and it displayed the words CHECK BOOK. I did, and it said 'Good job defeating a Trainer. Here's 10 electrum.' Ten more pieces of metal appeared, so these were clearly called electrum. It then told me that I could have a deck anywhere from 30 to 60 cards, and I should make my deck smaller. I did so.

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I defeated another Trainer, intending to save the rest for later. I learned that not losing HP meant the Trainers would give me more electrum, as this one gave me two when it failed to damage me.

[dd's note: I have no patience to figure out how to work buying and selling cards into my plot when I'm never going to do it again, most likely, but this is where I did so. I just sold a Quantum Tower.]

I opened the notebook again, and it granted me more electrum. It also informed me that the next hallway had better robots, called Randoms. I defeated one, and left four more. Ignoring these, I once more opened the notebook. It again granted electrum, and told me the next hallway would have non-robot opponents called Normals. I was not afraid, so I continued forward.

The first Normal was an odd blob, hovering above the ground. It had actually cards, and clearly a better deck, but I still defeated it. It fell to the ground. By this time, the process of opening the notebook had become standard, and I did so again. It gave me more electrum, and showed me the number 14. It told me I needed to get the number to 150. I needed to defeat more enemies to reach that, so I would.

But not now. The teleportation had taken toll on me, and I wished to rest. So I sat on the ground, a safe distance from the Normals, and rested.

Summary for Day I: 14 score, 4-0, 158

Spoiler for Alpha, Day II - Discoveries (150 Score Quest, Part A):

I found myself asleep, and I awoke again to find myself in the same place I had sat down. My deck was still present, as were the normals. I stood, and faced them once more.

The second one after waking almost defeated me. But I stood strong, and I was victorious. It dropped a card, so I picked it up. It was a Chaos Seed, which was not currently useful to me. Regardless, I kept it for the future.

I defeated six more, earning the card Deja Vu. before one Normal finally bested me. I noted I lost electrum in this situation, as opposed to gaining it. Unphased, I defeated one more, and the urge to check my notebook arose. I did so, seeing my score was 68 out of the needed 150. I turned the page, and a room opened off the side of this hallway. I entered it.

There was a large statue on a pedestal besides a golden wheel. I walked up, and the wheel began spinning. It stopped, giving me a new card and a decent amount of electrum. It also gave me a slip of paper, with the word ELIDNIS. I assumed this would be relevant one day, but right now it was not.

The new card was a Devonian Dragon. It was, like the previous two, not useful at this time, but I saved it for future use as well.

The statue, to my surprise, pointed to the ground, and a path was set. I followed it, and I discovered an Arena, where I could temporarily duplicate my cards and submit them to another world, presumably to be played by others. There was a large amount of machinery in this room.

[dd's note: Here I bought 6 pendulums, but again, working them into the plot when I'm going to be using the bazaar so rarely doing this so rarely is still something I'm too lazy to do.]

I put something together, realizing I had the ability to change certain things, and allowed it to manifest in this Arena. Following this, I again rested.

Summary of Day II: 68 score, 13-1 (9-1 today), 148

[eljoemo]

Today began the quest of the life elemental known as Horny_Frog (mature, I know)

I've decided to run as close to 20 battles a day as I can. After Day 1, Horny_Frog has 87 Score, 18 wins and 2losses, 295 and 45 Cards (26 non pillar/pend). This day was spent mostly in AI1&2. I attempted AI3 but lost to the air-light duo and so gave up for today.

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[the dictator]

I started today as well, with water as element (rolled in chat).

Water started REALLY lacks offence, at least in direct power from creature attack values (seriously, 4 creatures with 6 total attack, and an ice dragon). At least I got 2 photons, so that's some additional attack value (using photons for attack value, fuck yeah). Still, I decided to put my chrysaora to use (not much else to do), and it's working quite well, probably because of the stalling power I have in all the CC cards (and 4 ice bolts are nice when you finish most games with 40 excess quanta).

The dictators starter deck mod

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Now that I have won 50 games against AI 2 (and lost a few as well), I will be switching to a death duo with some pendulums and flesh spiders I won. Didn't get a single water card from spins so far, but I got purify from oracle :/

Looking at the AI decks made me realize why I probably haven't gotten any cards from AI 2: 3 out of the 4 decks with water in the deck, also pack purify .

Since we were discussing it in chat, I made a list of all the cards used in the AI 2 decks found here. The number in the title gives the amount of decks using cards of said element (out of 12 total).

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Other - 12

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4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4sa 4t3 4t3 4t3 4t3 4t3 4t3 4t3 4t3 4t3 4t3 4t4 4t4

Entropy - 3

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Death - 2

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52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52g 52h 52i 52j 52j 52j 52j 52k 52k 52l 52m 52m 52m 52m 52n 52o 52o 52o 52o

Gravity - 4

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Earth - 4

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Life - 3

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Fire - 2

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Water - 4

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Light - 3

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Air - 2

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5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5oc 5od 5od 5od 5od 5od 5oe 5oe 5oe 5oe 5of 5og 5oh 5oh 5oh 5oh 5oh 5oh

Time - 3

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Darkness - 2

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5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5uk 5ul 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5um 5un 5un 5un 5un 5uo 5up 5up 5up 5up 5uq 5uq 5uq

Aether - 4

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[treebeard xiii]

due to mass interest i decided to give this a go under the aptly named treebeard xiv
rng decided to give me aether lets see what i can do.

As has already been seen the aether starter is this

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which i immediately changed to this

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4t3 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4ve 4vi 4vk 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61p 61p 61q 61q 61q 61q 61r 61r 61r 61s 61s 61t 61v 8pu

after my first ten games after the ai0 game this is what i have so far

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after realizing i had far too much quanta in my original deck i changed to this

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4t3 4vc 4vc 4vc 4vc 4ve 4vi 4vk 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61p 61p 61p 61q 61q 61q 61q 61r 61r 61r 61s 61s 61t 61v 8pj

7 wins and 3 losses later i have ended up with a bone wall from oracle and a titanium shield from a spin and hating aether starter for having to rely mainly on puing something.

after the second ten games where i got soundly trounced by the ai i converted my entro pillars to aether pends as per rule so i now have this with a second chaos seed won from the ai

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4t3 4ve 4vi 4vi 4vk 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61o 61p 61p 61p 61q 61q 61q 61q 61r 61r 61r 61s 61s 61t 61v 63a 63a 63a 63a 8pj

as of now i will only update before i log out each day.

final update of day 1:

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I had to share a particularly nice field i got this came from a simple mutant spark

after several games later i realised that the dagger wasn't helping me much so i removed it and as i only won a momentum my deck is still the same

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more will follow shortly

[the dictator]

Same thing but for AI 3. There is 13 decks here, one of them being a rainbow with quantum pillars and 2 cards for each element (except for time, it has 3 time cards, and a time mark). Also, I didn't list pillars or pendulums, they are hard to win in spin anyway, and it would put some elements over 60 cards (which works, but it makes the deck image generator look weird). I didn't list other because of that, AI3 only uses quantum pillars, and only in that rainbow.

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Entropy - 4

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Death - 2

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Gravity - 4

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Earth - 2

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Life - 4

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Fire - 3

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Water - 2

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Light - 4

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Air - 3

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Time - 3

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Darkness - 3

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Aether - 3

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[mathman101]

I'm gonna give this a try, it sounds like a fun challenge.

RNG gave me an 8, so that means gravity.

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After anout 105 games, nobazaar101 is sitting with a small amount of cards....but still not the right ones for a good rainbow or other rush.

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[Shantu]

Day #2
Unbaz marched on and slayed many more elementals.

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Discord is awesome.

[dawn to dusk]

restarting with number 9. time. introduction Temparel

ill try starting with this:

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[Higurashi]

Two days later, aetherfish has an epic Half-Dragon PUbow (or HDPUb). It destroyed AI2 first with its Entropy/Aether deck and then with its mighty Aetherbow, with an incredible record of 80 wins before the first loss. It then beat AI2 until 100 wins and picked Pulverizer for pulverizing.

Then it was time to face an Elder. The aetherfish feels no fear, but gulped anyway because it had seen movies and people gulp when they're scared.

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But it turns out even the Elders are no match for aetherfish now. His power is growing to frightening heights. He unleashes a monstrous laugh from the depths as if he was a true-blue Deep One.

Who can stop aetherfish now? ~~><>